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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COPPEREPLATE
INSCRIPTIONS IN BRIEF:In an inscription Acārye Akalamka is referred to as having heen engaged in a hot discussion with the Budhist scholars in the year 700 of the Vikrama era. This means that the discussion took place in the year 562 of the salivāhana saka era. The Tivarakheda copper-plate, referring to king Dantidurga had been inscribed in the year 553 of the śālivāhana saka era. One of the rock-inscriptions clearly mentions that in the days when Akalamka had been engaged in hot discussions with various scholars belonging to various schools of thought, some king, Sāhasatunga by name, had been on the throne. The word Tunga, in my opinion, infallibly refers to a king of the Rāştrakuța dynasty and that king was, most probably, Dantidurga who might have had assumed the title Jagattunga also, for Acārya Virasena who had completed his Dhavalā commentary in the year 738 of the Vikrama era i. e. in the year 600 of the śālivāhaDa saka era. According to the same Acārya, king Jagattung alias Sāhasatunga and Dantidurga, had been succeeded by some king, named Boddaparāya. This king Boddañarāya seems to be the same king who had assumed the titles Amoghavarşa, śubhatunga and Nypatunga, for Acārya Jinasena is found to have referred to king Amoghavarşa, Acārya Mahāvira to NŢpatunga and the great poet, Puşpadanta, to śubhatunga.
The year 679 of the śālivāhana śaka era, inscribed in the Antroli-Chharoli ( Surat ) copper-plate, does not seem to be correct. Acārya Jinasena, the author of the Harivamsapurāna, is found to have referred to śrivallabha, the son of king Kļşparāja and to Indrāyudha of Kanauja and king Vatsarāja, a descendant of the Gurjara-pratihāra dynasty, in his Harivamsapurāpa which was completed in the year 705 of the śāllvāhana saka era. In this year Srivallabha alias Dhruvarāja and Dhāravarşa was on the throne. The above-referred-to copper
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