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Indradatta flourished about 415-440 A.D., as his son Dahrasena's Pārdi grant is dated in Kalacuri year 207 ( 456-57 A.D.). Dahrasena is known to have performed an Aśvamedha sacrifice (aśvamedhaharta, 1.2 of the plate); he is known to be a Vaişnava from his silver coins found at Daman in South Gujarat.
The legend on the coins is Mahārāja Endradatta--putra-paramavaisnavaŚri Mahārāja Dahrasena. In his copper-plate he calls himself Bhagavat-padakarmakara, a servant of the feet of Bhagavat.-(CII, IV, XL ii).
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The Junagadh inscription of Skandagupta is seen on the hundred square feet of uneven surface of a large rounded and somewhat conical granite boulder, which records (1) his appointment of Parņadatta as Governor of Surāṣtra and (2) Parṇadatta's appointment of his own son Cakrapālita as Governor of Junagadh, (3) the bursting of the embankment of the Sudarśana lake in the Gupta year 136, (4) its repairs by Cakrapalita in the following year, and ( 5 ) the erection by him of a temple to Vişnu in the G. year 138.- (CI, iii, 47-68 ).
The Girnar rock-inscription of Skandagupta is the only known inscription of the Gupta rule in Gujarat. It records that Skandagupta had, after long deliberation, appointed Parņadatta as the Governor of Saurāştra and that the latter put his worthy son Cakrapālita in charge of Girinagara.
The embankment ( setu) of the Sudarsana dam at Girinagara, which was reconstructed in $. E. 72 (150 A.D.) in the time of Mahākṣatrapa Rudradāman, again burst in Bhādrapada of G.E. 136 ( 455 A.D.) during the reign of the Gupta Emperor Skandagupta; and Cakrapālita, the administrator and the son of Parņdatta, the Governor of Saurāșțra, got it promptly rebuilt within two months in the summer of the next year, i.e. G.E. 137 ( 456 A.D.). The new dam was 100 hastas in length, 68 hastas in breadth, and 7 puruṣas in height. The inscription is styled सुदर्शनतटाक-संस्कार-ग्रन्थरचना (Composition on the repairing of the Sudarśana lake).
Copper-plate from Pārdi, (fifty miles south of Surat ) shows that Dahrasena, Traikūțaka was reigning in (Traikūțaka or Cedi Sam. 207) 456 A.D.(JBRAS., xvi, 346; Bom. Gaz. 294-5).
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The Pārdi plates (Kalacuri Samvat 207 = 456-57 A.D.) were issued from the victorious royal camp at Amraka which record the donation of a village in the Antarmaņdali visaya, which on the analogy on the Antar-Narmadā visaya in the Sunaokala plates of Samgamasimha (K. year 292), seems to have comprised the territory on both the banks of the Mandali or modern Miņdholā river. The places mentioned in the grant can be identified in the country between the Purņā and the Mindholā in South Gujarat. Dahrasena may have ruled from Circa 440 A.D. to 465 A.D.
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