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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA,
EVOL. XIX.
The present inscription is one of Mahārāja Subandhu, and the grant recorded in it is issued by him from the city called Mahishmati. It is dated the seventh day of the bright half of Bhadrapada of Sam. 167. The object of the inscription is to record the grant of a piece of land at the village (padraka) Sohajana in the Udumbaragarta district (pathaka) to a Brahmapa named Shashthisvåmin for the spiritual welfare of the donor and cf the donor's parents. The ditaka is Guhadāsa. The date of the grant is given in symbols of 100, 60 and 7 (167). and should be referred to the Gupta era. It would, then, correspond to 486 A.D. The Subandhu of this charter is apparently & now figure. That he is styled as a 'Maharaja' would show that he was a vabal-chief. Possibly, like Surasmichandra, he was subordinate of Budhagupta, who, as shown by the Eran' Pillar and the Sarnath' Buddha Image inscriptions, and by his coins, flourished about that time.
The fact that Mahārāja Subandhu was connected with such an ancient and famous city as Mahishmati is noteworthy.
As to the places mentioned in the document Mahishmati is apparently the homonymous town of epic fame, which is, in all probability, tow represented by Mabēbvara, though scholars like Pargiter would identify it with Mandhata on the Narmada.
The other two places namely, Söhajanā and Udumbaragartā, I am unable to locate.
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1 Fleet's Gupta Inscriptions, p. 89.
Fleet's Gupta Inscriptions, p. 88. * [Sco Arch. Surv. of India, 1914-16, p. 125.--Ed.] Also, Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume, p. 203.
John Allan's Coins of the Gupta dynasties, coin no. 617.
It was founded by Mahishmat, . Haihaya chieftain, (Pisapu-Purära translatod by H. H. Wilson, Vol. IV, p. 54).
*J. R. A. 8., 1910, pp. 445-6.
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