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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
THE MAIN BRANCH
Pradēsh.1 This Vyāgharadēva probably belonged to the Uchchakalpa dynasty ; for, several records of this dynasty mentioning his name have been found in the Nāgōd District. As Jayanātha, the son of Mahārāja Vyāghra was ruling from circa G. 170 to G. 190 (190 to 510 A.C.),2 Vyāgharadēva may be referred to the period from 470 to 490 A.C. He was thus a contemporary of Pṛithivīshēna II. The Uchchakalpa kings were previously the feudatories of the Guptas, whose era they used. When the power of the Guptas declined in the second half of the fifth century A.C., they seem to have transferred their allegiance to the Vākāṭakas. ...Unlike most of his ancestors, Pṛithivīshēṇa II was a worshipper of Vishṇu ; for, he is described as parama-bhāgavata in the Bālāghāṭ plates.3 He is the last known member of this senior branch of the Vākāṭaka dynasty. He may have closed his reign in 490 A.C. After him, the kingdom was probably annexed by Harishēṇa of the Vastagulma branch, who made extensive conquests in all directions.
...Thus ended this senior branch of the Vākāṭaka dynasty after a glorious rule of about
160 years (circa 330-490 A.C.). It produced a series of illustrious kings who were capable
rulers of men, wise administrators, and liberal patrons of learning and art. No lithic
monuments of their age have survived in Northern Vidarbha, but the few panels that have
recently been brought to light at Pavnār show the excellence of the plastic art of the time.
Their age was equally distinguished in literature. Two kāvyas, the Mēghadūta and the
Sētubandha,–the former in Sanskrit and the latter in Prakrit–have immortalised it. Many
other Sanskrit works which gave the Vaidarbhī rīti the place of eminence among all rītis must
have been composed during this period, but they have all passed into oblivion. 1 Nos. 20-22.
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