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BASIM PLATES OF VAKATAKA VINDHYASAKTI II.
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cannot be accepted in the absence of corroborative proof. As for Purikä, it was situated according to the Harivansal at the foot of the Rikshavat (modern Satpurā) mountain and, therefore, in the Central Provinces or Berar. Vindhyasakti, the first ancestor of the Vakātakas, may have been so called because he extended his power to the foot of the Vindhya mountain in the north. There is thus no valid argument against our view that the Vākātakas had their original home in the South.
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First Plate. 1 सिचम्' [*] दृष्टम् [*] वत्सगुल्माधर्ममहाराजस्था मिष्टीमातीर्थ्यामवाजपेयज्योति2 टीमसहस्पतिसवसाधस्क(स्क्र)चतुरश्वमेधयाजिनस्ममाज(जी) - 3 णिच सगोत्रस्य हारितीपुत्रस्य श्रीप्रवरसेनपौवस्य 4 धर्ममहाराजस्य श्रीसद्धसेनपुत्रस्य धर्ममहाराजस्य 5 "वाकाटकानां । चि(थो)विष्यशक्तचनात् [[*] नान्दोकडस "उत्तरमग्गे
Second Plate; First Side, 6 ताकालक्खोप्यकामासे पाकासपहेसु अम्हसन्तका साब्वायोगणि7 युत्ता पाणत्ति भडा सेसा य साच्चरन्तर(कु)लपुत्ता भाणितव्वा [*] आहोहिं 8 "दाणि पापुणी विजयवेजयिक पायुबलवरणिके" स्वस्ति
IVishnuparvan, adhyaya 38, V. 21-22.
* Tho Vayu and Brahmanda Puranas no doubt mention Vindhyabakti (I) and Pravirs at the end of the section about the kings of Viditä, but that is probably because like the Andhra they had extended their power to North India.
• From ink-impressions. We have derived somo help from Dr. D. C. Sircar's transaript of the plates which sppeared in the I. H. Q., Vol. XVII, pp. 112 ff. while this article was going through the pross.
• This word is written in the margin on a level with L 3. • The mark denoting the length of this vowel is faint. • Other Väkātaka plates name this götra as Vishnuvsiddha. See, e.g., above, Vol. XXIII, p. 85.. - Read श्रीप्रवरसेनस्य पौचस्य.. Bee above, p. 142. • Read श्रीसबसेनस्य पुचस्व. . Opposite this line in the margin there is a mark for 1, denoting the number of the plate. 10 This mark of punctuation is superfluous. 11 The engraver first incised då which he afterwards altered to w. 13 Anatti (Sanskrit, Ajiapti) is the same as Dataka who was to see to the execution of the royal order.
19 Compare ajña-sanchari-kulaputr-adhikritäh in the Sanskrit grants of the Vikatakas. See, e.g., above, Vol.XXII, p. 172..
1. In the margin on the left there is a sign for 2, denoting the number of this plato.
15 Hēmachandra (VIII, 1, 29; IV, 277) gives both dans and dapith in the Saurant. Daai ooours in the Hirshadagalli plates also (above, Vol. I, p. 5).
16 Prakrit grammarians give appano as the correct form in the Maharashtri, see Vararachi, . 48 (Bhimaba's commentary); Hēmachandra VIII, 3, 56. ___ Hultzach takes similar expressions which occur in lines 5-6 of the Mayidavolu plates as Migndhi noniina, tives. We would prefer to take them as locative singular forms, denoting purpose. In the Himahadagalli aad British Museum plates, the gerund katina or kätümanis follows - vaddhaniyan or addhaniye.
