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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH
the homonymous king of the Later Gupta dynasty, mentioned in the Dēo-Bārṇārk pillar inscription and thus relegated the Vākāṭakas to the eighth century A.C. His opinion was accepted by Kielhorn and Sukhtankar. The present inscription, which states clearly that Prabhāvatī was the daughter of the Early Gupta king Chandragupta II, proved unmistakably, for the first time, that she lived in the last quarter of the fourth century A.C. It has since been shown that Dēvagupta was a favourite name of Chandragupta II and so it finds a mention in Vākāṭaka grants. ...As for the localities mentioned in the present grant, Nandivardhana was identified by Hiralal with Nandardhan or Nagardhan near Rāmṭēk. The identification has since been corroborated by several proofs. The other villages, however, remained unidentified. A clue to their location was afforded by the Jāmb plates of Pravarasēna II, discovered in 1940, which also mention the same Supratishṭha āhāra. With this clue I could identify some of the villages mentioned in the present grant. Vilavaṇaka seems to be Vaṇī, about 24 miles to the west, and Kadāpiñjana, Kadhājan 3 miles to the south by east of Hiṅgaṇghāṭ Hiṅgaṇghāṭ seems therefore to occupy the same position as the ancient village Daṅguṇa, The latter place-name appears to have been changed to Hiṅgaṇ in course of time, ghāṭ being added to it as it was a fording place on the Wunnā. It is noteworthy that the name of the village Kavaḍghāṭ on the opposite bank of the same river also ends in ghāṭ. As the village mentioned in the Jāmb plates as situated in the Supratishṭha āhāra can also be located in the Hiṅgaṇghāṭ tahsil, that āhāra seems to have comprised roughly the territory now included in that tahsil. The present plates of Prabhāvatīguptā, though discovered in distant Poonā, seem therefore to have originally belonged to the Hiṅgaṇghāṭ tahsil.
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