Chronology of Gujarat

Author(s): M R Majumdar
Publisher: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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New Delhi, for his warm response to the present work. His decipherment of the Seal of the Biksu-Sangha of the Rudrasena Vihāra, excavated from Inţvā, on Girnar Hill in 1949, (See, p. 79), and of the inscription on the pedestal of the Buddha bronze from Bhuj, discovered in 1957, (Sce, p. 215 ) can well be remembered here.
His recent reading, from an ink-impression of the inscription on the back-side of the prabhāvali of the life-size bronze, discovered in 1935 from old Koțyarka temple, Mahudi Village, Vijapur Taluka (N. Guj.), still in situ, has settled, once for all, the identity of the bronze (Plate LIII) as having been Buddhistic, instead of being Jaina, as believed so far.-(See, p. 316.).
I cannot adequately thank Shri B. L. Mankad, Keeper, Art & History Sections, Baroda Museum and Picture Gallery, for selecting and designing, at my request, the various Illustrative Coin-Plates, entirely based on the rich Coins Collection of the Baroda Museum.
I have been laid under a great obligation by Shri Parameshwari Lal Gupta, Keeper of the Coins Gallery, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, and Joint-Editor, Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, for having scrutinised the matter regarding coins, included in the Sections on ' Antiquities', and for lending in advance his unpublished material on Coin-Hoards in the Bombay State' for inclusion is this Volume.
(viii) Acknowledgments The Standing Committee of Experts, comprising of Dr. Jyotindra M. Mehta, Chairman, the present Vice-Chancellor of the M. S. University of Baroda, Professor H. D. Sankalia, Director, Deccan College Research Institute, Poona, the author of 'Archaeology of Gujarat' (1941 ) and Professor B. Subbarao, the author of The Pesonality of India' (2nd ed. 1958), the Members, have laid me under a deep obligation by closely scrutinising the Mss. as a whole, and making valuable suggestions regarding its revision before it could be sent to the Press.
I am very much indebted to Dr. Jyotindra M. Mehta, the Vice-Chancellor and Chairman, Standing Committee of Experts, for giving the Foreword to this volume.
The interest shown in the entire scheme of Gujarat Chronology from its inception, by Dr. Shrimati Hansaben Mehta, the first Vice-Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and the unstinted help given by her for furtherance of the object cannot be adequately thanked. The Message testifies to her unfailing interest in the cultural study of Gujarat, as a whole.
I thank the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. C. S. Patel for promptly sanctioning my tour-programmes, whenever proposed in connection with the Chronolozy work.
I cannot adequately thank Dr. B. Subbarao, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, M. S. University, for the keen and constant interest he has evinced in the final revision and recasting of the MSS., even during all its stages of printing. The selection of representative Illustrations, and the preparation of Maps have obtained the stamp of his critical scholarship.