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vadra (padra), as the termination of village.
names, in Bhramaravadra, 137; - Jara
vadra, 184;-and Phalahavadra .............. 184 Vaghauri, ancient name of the modern • Rudhwårå ..............
............... 184 Vaghwârs, see Rudhwårå........................... 184 Váhadavarnadeva, Maharanaka (Kaurava)... 235 Vairågara, a mandala tributary to Jâjalla
deva ................................. ..................... 139 Vaisyas mentioned under the name of Vis ... 13 Vaitulyas, the heretical; the destruction of
their books in Ceylon........................ 104, 125 Vajjúka, a chief of the Rômô mandala......... 138 vajrásana, 'a diamond-throne,' 308 and n.,
311 ;-mention of the vajruisana at Mahabôdhi ............
.......... 309, 310, 311
...................228, 235 Valabhi, the Kings of (see also Dharasêna
II. and IV.); a list of their grants issued from the city of Valabhi itself, 360n.;
- indication of the purely local nature of their power, 368; - notes on their history, 195 to 197, 360, 365; - a ruler of Valabhi was protected by Dadda IV. (II.) against Harshavardhana of Thânêsar, 185, 186, 187,
195, 196 Valabht era, the later name of the Gupta
era ; used by Albêrûni, and in epigraphical records of the thirteenth century A.D., and due to the preservation of the era by the Kings of Valabhi, 241 f., 360; - Albêruni distinctly states the absolute identity of the
Valabhi era with the Gupta era ................ 245 valaksha used to denote the bright fortnight 205 Válnêr, a village in Gujarat; inentioned
under the ancient name of Varandra...... 193n. V&madêva, perhaps a member of the Kala
churi family ............ ............225, 228, 230 Vanaisti uparatât, the female genius' victo.
rious superiority'.............. .................. 92, 93 Våraghna ; see Vârenjana........................... 92 Varahamibira, an astronomer; he died A D. 587,.. 209 and n.;- his rules, in the Brihat. Samhiti and the Samdsa-Samhita, for the naming of the years of the Twelve-Year Cycle of Jupiter according to the heliucal. rising system, 1, 313 ; - his rule, in the Brihat-Sarkhitd, for the grouping of the nakshatras for that purpose..................... 2 Varanda, ancient name of the modern Wand Khári..............
................. 193n. Våranêra, ancient name of the modern Válaer 193n. Vårežjana, or Våraghna, the bird sacred to
Verethraghna .......................... .............. 92 sarsha, 'a year;' the reason why the earlier
years of Hindu eras are quoted by this term, without any dynastic appellation...... 209
Vasishtha, an ancient astronomer, quoted by
Rishiputra, and through him by Utpala, for the heliacal-rising system of the Twelve.
Year Cycle of Jupiter ............................ 313 Vasudeva, of the Rajamåla family ............ 137 Vasudeva (Indo-Scythian or Turushka); remarks on his coins, 89, 98; remarks on
his title of Shahi in a Mathura inscription 95 Vastavya family
...............63 and n. Vata, the wind-god, on Indo-Scythian coins.. 91 V&tâ, apparently an ancient village in
Chamba................................................9, 12 Vatsarkja, Mahdywnaka (Kaurava)...225, 228,
231, 235 Vattagamini, a king of Ceylon, between
B.O. 106 and 76 ............ Vedas, the earliest sacred books of the Hin..
dus; mention of the Yajur Veda ............ 231 von, a stream or river,' in Madhuveni ...... 201 Ventura, General of the Sikhs, 23 ; - captures the mare Laili............
... 56 Veriwal, a town in Kathiâ wal; the value of the inscription of Arjunadeva, of Valabhi. Samvat 945, in explaining Alberoni's statement regarding the equation between the Gupta and the Saka eras ......................... 210 Verethraghna, the Iranian war-god, on IndoScythian coins ..........
.................92, 93 Vêsu (Yadava of Sêuñadêsa)
OI Seunadesa) .. .............. 118 victory, the winged goddess of, on Indo.
Scythian coins .....................................92, 93 Vidyadhara, of the Vastavya family; he seems to have been a minister of a king named
................61, 64 Vihân, a village in Gujarat: mentioned under
the ancient name of Vihânâ ....................... 184 Vihand, ancient name of the modern Vihan... 184 Viharà désa, conquered by Svůmin................ 137 Vijayabâhu, a king of Ceylon, A.D. 1071
to 1126............................................. 125. 126 Vijayachakka, a prince of Ceylon, and a Pali scholar, A.D. 1186 ..........
......... 126 Vijayadeva, or Vijayasimha (Kalachuri)...227, 228 Vijayaditya-Vishnuchitta (Kadamba of Goa); examination of the date in his Halsi
inscription of Kaliyuga-Samvat 4272......... 265 Vijjaula-Bhadravakasiya, apparently un an.
cient locality in Chambů .......................9, 12 Vikrama ers; an era of western origin,
commencing in B.C. 58, though usually represented as commencing in B.C. 57; an epigraphical instance of the use of both an expired and a current year of this era, 363 ; - quotations of the reckoning of this era, both by current and by expired years, from Hindu almanacs, 206 and n., 207, 208; - an epigraphical instance of the
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