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CHRONOLOGY OF GUJARAT
to be included in the latter part of the period limited by the reigns of SvāmiSimhasena and Svāmi-Rudrasimha III.--(Rapson, ibid., cxlix).
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$. 31(0) or 31(x)-Silver coins were struck by King Mahākṣatrapa SvāmiRudrasimha III, son of King Mahākṣatrapa Svāmi-Satyasimha. The legend on the coins is राज्ञो महाक्षत्रपस स्वामी सत्यसिंहपुत्रस राज्ञ महाक्षत्रपस ।-(Ibid., 192).
The date which is the last known of the Western Kșatrapas, is uncertain, as it is impossible to ascertain whether there was a unit figure in the date or not. It is more possibly 31(x).
$. 312-G. V. Acharya read this date on coins struck by Svāmi-Rudrasena III (op. cit., 96); but the reading is hardly acceptable, as Rudrasena III was already succeeded by Simhasena in or before year 304. Possibly the coins may belong to Svāmi-Rudrasena IV. In that case the date on the coins of Rudrasimha III must be 31(x) and not 310.
Skandasvāmi, the author of a portion of a Rigveda Bhāşya, and a commentary on Nirukta, was the teacher of Harisvāmi, the commentator of SatapathaBrāhmaṇa, who hailed from Puşkara; and called himself a 'Dharmādhyakşa' of the king Vikramāditya, who is very probably Candragupta II.- (U. P. Shah, 'Gujarātnā Ketalāk Pràcina Pandito, Buddhiprakasa, October, 1952, p. 302).
In about the 4th century A.D., we find the grandson of a merchant from Surășțra, recording the establishment of a Stone umbrella in honour of the Lord Buddha in Kośām (ancient Kaušāmbi.)-(R. C. Majumdar: Kośām Inscription of the reign of Mahārāja Vaiśravaņa'; Epi. Ind. XXIV, p. 146).
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ANTIQUITIES Vibāras and Stūpas : During the Ksatrapa rule in Saurăstra in the 2nd century A.D., several Vihara-caves seem to have been carved. The most notable amongst these excavations are the Caves at Junagadh, Sana, Talaja, Dhank, Jhinjhurijhara (Siddhasar ), and those newly discovered at Khambhalia. Not all of them are Buddhistic, as it was formerly supposed; and from their simple architectural forms, it is not always very easy to determine their exact period. But there is reason to believe that many of them belong to the Kşatrapa period. .
Boria Stūpa : As remains of architecture, the Slūpas that have upto now been found or uncovered in Western India are of brick. The great Boria Stūpa in the jungles on the Girnar Mt. at Junagadh had a solid burnt-brick core. The relics were imbedded in this brick-structure at a considerable depth above ground level. The find of a few sculptured marble-slabs, however, showed that some stone-work existed, probably as railing and the crowning umbrella. The relics are on view at the Junagadh Museum.-(Plate XIV a)
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