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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
TRANSLATION.
[VOL. XVII.
The year 8 of the era of the illustrious Lakshmana-sena-deva. The (image of the) goddess Chandi was begun by the Superintendent (Adhikṛita) Damodara, son of Maladatta and was installed by his younger brother Narayana (in the year) 4.
No. 25.-A NOTE ON THE VAKATAKA INSCRIPTION FROM GANJ.
(No. 4 of Vol. XVII of the Epigraphia Indica.)
BY K. N. DIKSHIT, M.A., POONA.
The last four paragraphs of the article on a Vakataka inscription from Ganj' illegible correction in the light of information available from the Poona plates of the thirteenth year of the Väkäṭaka queen Prabhavatigupta (Ante. Vol. XV, p. 32 ff.) and another grant of the 19th year of Pravarasena (II) issued by the same queen Prabhavatigupta (Ind. Ant. Vol. LIII, page 48). The characters used in the Ganj and Nachna inscriptions are later in date than those of the Poona plates of Prabha vatigupta. The Prithvishena of these inscriptions is therefore more likely to be identified with Prithvishena II of the Balaghat plates, who was the greatgrandson of Prabhavatigupta and not with Prithvishena I her father-in-law. On paleographical grounds, Prof. Jouveau-Dubreuil attributes the Nachna inscriptions to the fifth century instead of the 4th and to Prithvishēpa II, in preference to Prithvishena I (Ancient History of the Deccan, page 73). The present epigraph which is almost identical with the Nachna Inscriptions, can therefore also be assigned to Prithvishena II who must have lived in or about the last quarter of the 5th or the opening years of the sixth century A.D.
