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Introduction
Preface
Contents
List of Plates
Abbreviations
Corrigenda
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Introduction
The Discovery of the Vakatakas
Vakataka Chronology
The Home of The Vakatakas
Early Rulers
The Main Branch
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Administration
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Literature
Architecture, Sculpture and Painting
Texts And Translations
Inscriptions of The Main Branch
Inscriptions of The Feudatories of The Main Branch
Inscriptions of The Vatsagulma Branch
Inscriptions of The Ministers And Feudatories of The Vatsagulma Branch
Index
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Tiruvarur	Darasuram
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Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH

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TRANSLATION

...Seen. By the order of the Mahārāja, the illustrious Pravarasēna (II), who is an oranment of the Vākāṭaka family; who, by the grace of Śambhu, has established the Kṛita-yuga (on the earth) ; who was born of Prabhāvatīguptā, the daughter of the Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Dēvagupta; was has exterminated all his enemies by his excellent policy, strength and valour; who follows the path adopted by former kings (and) who is the son of Rudrasēna (II), the Mahārāja of the Vākāṭakas :-

(For translation of lines 1 to 13, see above, pp. 13-14.)

...(Line17). The village named Brahmapūraka, together with kōraṭa¹¹ and the right to levy a tax equal to one-fiftieth¹² (of the sale-price), situated in the bhōga of Beṇṇākārpara, has been given, with the pouring out of water, to the Adhvaryu, Āchārya Dēvaśarman of the

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¹ At first लि, later corrected into ल.
² Read सक्लूप्तोपक्लृप्त :.
³ Read परिबाधाङ्‍अकुर्य्यात्कारयेद्वा.
⁴ Other cognate plates have generally धर्म्मादरकरणे.
⁵ Read राजदत्तसंचिन्तनपरिपालनं,
⁶ Read कृतयुण्यानुकीर्त्तनपरिहारार्त्थ न कीर्त्तयाम:.
⁷ Read एष्यत्कालप्रभयिण्णूनां
⁸ Metre of this and the next verse : Anushṭubh.
⁹ Read दत्तां वा.
¹⁰ Metre : Anushṭubh.
¹¹ The meaning of kōraṭa is not certain.
¹² For this tax, see MSM., ch. VII, 130. v.

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