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(2) Kosam inscription of Maharaja Bhadramagha (year 81)-Maharajasya iri-Bhadramaghasya sa[m*]vatsarē ēkasitē 80 1 grishma-pakshe dvitiye 2 divase pañchamē 5.
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(3-4) Allahabad Museum (Kosam) inscriptions of Mahārāja Bhadramagha (year 87)2Mahar[äljasya śri-Bhadramaghasya sa[m]vatsare sapt[a]site 80 7 varsha-paksha tritiya 3 divasa
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(5) Kosam inscription of Mahārāja Bhadramagha (year 88)-Mahārājasya śri-Bhadram[aghasya] [samvatsa]rē 80 8 varsha-paksha 3 divasa 5.
(6) Kosam inscription of Makäräja Vaisravana (year 107)-[Ma]h[a]r[a]jasya śri-Vaisrava[nasya] samvatsare sapt-ōttara-satime 100 7 grishma-pakshe saptame 7 divase prathame. (7) Kosam inscription of Maharaja Sivamagha (date lost)[Maharajasya iri-Sivamaghanya sa[tivatsare]....[varsha-pakshe] 2 divase prathame 1.
(8) Kosam inscription of Mahārāja Bhimavarman (year 130) Maharaja-śrī-Bh[i]mavarnaņām samvatsa[re*] tri[m]s-öttara-satime 100 30 grishma-pakshe prathame 1 di[vasē].
(9) Kosam inscription of Maharaja Bhimavarman (year 139)-Mahar[a]jasya śri-Bhimavarmmanah samva[t] 100 30 9....2(?) diva 7.
The records found at Bandhogarh have not yet been published, but from the information occasionally communicated by Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, the Government Epigraphist, we learn that they are records of the reigns of the Maharaja Vasishṭhiputra Bhimasena (year 51) and his son Pothasiri (year 86) (? 76) and grandson Bhadadeva (year 90). Two other small inscriptions discovered at Bandhogarh record each the construction of a cave by the Rajan Vaisra vana, son of the Mahasenapati Bhadrabala. They are not dated. Two sealings, one of Rajan Vasishṭhiputra Bhimasena and the other of Maharaja Gautamiputra Sivamagha were found during excavations at Bhita. 10 They contain among others the devices of the bull and the tree-in-railing, which, as stated below, occur on the coins of the kings of Kausāmbi. Some coins of Prishthasriya with the same devices were also discovered at Bhita. As conjectured by Dr. Motichandra, 12 this Prishthasriya is probably identical with Pothasiri of the Bandhogarh inscription. Again, a hoard of copper coins has recently been discovered at Säton in the Fatehpur District of U. P. It has been described by Dr. Motichandra.13 It contained the coins of Bhadramagha, Vaisravana, Sivamagha and Bhimavarman. These coins have the same devices of the bull and the tree-in-railing. Again, Dr. Allan's Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum (Ancient India), pp. 157-58, describes some coins with the legend Jayama[gha*]. It is
Above, Vol. XXIV, pp. 253 ff., and plate. Above, Vol. XXIII, pp. 245 ff., and plate.
Above, Vol. XVIII, p. 160, and plate. Jayaswal read the date as 86. (History of India, 150 A.D.-350 A.D., p. 230.) According to Dr. Konow this inscription is of the same date as Nos. 3 and 4 above.
4 Above, Vol. XXIV, pp. 146 ff., and plate.
5 Above, Vol. XVIII, p. 159, and plate.
Ind. Cl., Vol. III, pp. 177 ff., and plate.
C. I. I., Vol. III, pp. 266 ff., and plate. Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar refers the date of this record to the Chidi era (see his List of Inscriptions of Northern India, p. 173, n. 3), while Mr. A. Ghosh refers it to the Gupta cra (Ind. Cul., Vol. III, pp. 178 ff), both on palæographic grounds. Its characters do not materially differ from those of other Kosam inscriptions listed here. Its date must therefore be referred to the same reckoning.
Above, Vol. XXIV, p. 146, n. 2. J. N. 8. I., Vol. II, p. 101.
10 An. Rep. A. S. I. for 1911-12, p. 51. 11 Ibid., p. 66.
12 J. N. S. I., Vol. II, p. 99, n. 18. Ibid., pp. 95 ff.
