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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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most parti dated in regnal years, broadly arranged according to the tracts of country where they were found, from Rajputana and the Pañjab on the west to Orisss and Ganjam on the east coast of India. I am aware that a number of the inscriptions towards the end of the list, as well as others which are dated according to the Saka era, properly belong to Southern India, bat have given them here on account of the connection of some of them with northern inscriptions. To draw an absolutely strict line between the north and the south appeared to me as unnecessary as it would be impossible.
On the information given under each number little need be said bere. As far as I was able to do so, I have tried to state, not merely where an inscription has been discovered, but also where it is now. I have also indicated whether Plates of an inscription are available. When an inscription has been edited several times, I generally have thought it sufficient to state where it has been published last. In the case of dated inscriptions, I have given throughout the original dates, and have added their European equivalents when they could be ascertained with confidence, moreover, I have shewn whether the numbers which may occur in a date are denoted by numerical symbols or by numeral (decimal) figares. As regards other details, I have mostly confined myself to recording the genealogy or line of succession (where it is given in the original) of the king or chief to whom an inscription belongs, and the names of the princes who are mentioned in connection with him or his predecessors; but, in the case of copperplates, I have also given the names of the places from which the grants were issued, and, in the case of prasastis, the names of their authors.
I venture to hope that this list will be of some service both to these of my fellow students who are engaged in the pablication of Indian inscriptions, and to any one who would wish to ascertain whether an inscription on stone or a copper-plate inscription, which he may meet with, is new or has already attracted the attention of scholars. To render the list more useful, the principal names that occur in it are given in an Index.
A.-Insoriptions dated according to the MAlava-Vilcrams Era. 1.- V. 428.-Gupta Inscr. p. 253, and Plate. Bijay&gadh pillar inscription of the Varika Vishnuvardhana, the son of Yasovardhana, grandson of Yaśôråta, and great-grandson of Vyaghraråta :
(L. 1).- Siddham kpitêshu chaturshu varsha-latêshv=ashtåviñseshus 400 20 8 Phálguna(na)-bahulasya pañchadas y&m=étasyåm=půrvvdy&m.
2.- V. 480 (R).- Gupta Inscr. p. 74, and Plate. Gangdhar inscription of the time of Visvavarman, the son (R) of Naravarman, recording the building of temples, eto, by his minister Mayurakshaka :-.
(L. 19).-YAtéshu chata[r]shu kri(kşi)têsbu satéshu sausyaishvá (Pshth) dita.. sóttarapadeshv=iha vatsa[rêshu] IICI) suklê trayôdass dinê bhuvi Karttikasya masasya sarva-jana-chitta-sukh-avahasya !!
3.-V. 493 and 529.- Gupta Inscr. p. 81, and Plate. Mandasôr inscription of the time of Kumaragupta [I.] and his subordinate, the governor at Dasapura, Bandhuvarman, the son of Visvavarman; (composed by Vatsabhatti) -
(L. 19).--MAlavâpân ganasthitya yat[@] sata-chatushtayê trinavaty-adhike-bddnámri(ri)tan sêvya-ghanastanê || Sahasya-masa-énklasya prasas tê=hni trayodasd
Nos. 678-684 give the inscriptions the dates of which are actually referred, or probably belong to the reign of the Gangeya family (or the Gangeys era).
The Plates collected in Dr. Fleet's Indian Incription (Ind. Ineer.), which are sometimes quoted in the list, have not been published yet. • Bend omstoku.
Dr. Fleet suggests sowmylakowafita-; compare Gupta Ineer. p. 73, noto.
