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Contents
Introduction
Preface
Contents
List of Plates
Abbreviations
Corrigenda
Images
Introduction
The Discovery of the Vakatakas
Vakataka Chronology
The Home of The Vakatakas
Early Rulers
The Main Branch
The Vatsagulma Branch
Administration
Religion
Society
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
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
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
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH

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...Seen. Success! Victory has been attained by the Bhagavat! Hail! From NandivarDhana-

...There was the Mahārāja, the illustrious Ghaṭōtkacha, the first king of the Guptas¹¹. His excellent son (was) the Mahārāja, the illustrious Chandragupta (I). His excellent son (was) the Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Samudragupta, (who was) born of the Mahādēvī Kumāradēvi; (who was) the daughter’s son of the Lichchhavi (chief) ; (and) who performed several horse-sacrifices. His excellent son (is) the Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Chandragupta (II), graciously favoured by him¹² (i.e., Samudragupta), who is a fervent devotee of the Bhagavat (Vishṇu) ; who is a matchless warrior on the earth¹³; who has exterminated all kings; whose fame has tasted the waters of the four oceans¹⁴; (and) who has donated many thousands of crores of cows and gold (coins).

...(Line 7) His daughter, the illustrious Prabhāvatīguptā of the Dhāraṇa gōtra, born of the illustrious Mahādēvī Kubēranāgā, who was (herself) born in the Nāga family;− who is a fervent devotee of the Bhagavat (Vishṇu); who (was) the Chief Queen of the illustrious Rudrasēna (II), the Mahārāja of the Vākāṭakas; who is the mother of the Yuvarāja, the illustrious
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¹ Read मतिसृष्‍ट
² Read राजा-.
³Read च्छात्र-as in other Vākāṭaka plates.
⁴ Some grants add किण्व before किण्व
⁵ The previous editors read अ[पशु]-but the aksharas are clearly as given above.
⁶ Read सक्लृप्तोपक्लृप्त:.
⁷Read कारयेद्दा
⁸Metre : Anushṭubh.
⁹Read त्रयोदशे.
¹⁰ Metre : Anushṭubh.
¹¹ Pathak and Dikshit translated, “who had Gupta as the first king”. But see Guptānām-ādirājā in lines 1-2 of the Ṛiddhapur plates (No. 8, below), which shows that the intended sense is as given here.
¹² Lit. favoured by his feet.
¹³ These adjectives are usually applied to Samudragupta.
¹⁴ This expression is generally translated as ‘whose fame has been tasted by the waters of the four oceans’. See C.I.I., Vol. III, p. 54 and Ep. Ind., Vol. XV, p. 43. But compare ti-samuda-taya-pita vāhanasa (ibid., Vol. VIII, p. 60), which shows that the intended sense is as above.

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