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580 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA (South Gujarāt) and Avanti (district around Ujjain) besides Trikāta in the Konkan, Kuntala (the Kanarese country), Andhra (the Telugu country), Kalinga (South Orissa and adjoining tracts), and Kosala (Upper Mahānadi Valley), while the Maitrakas of Valabbi, (Wala in the peninsular portion of Gujarāt) gradually assume independence.
The later years of Skanda seem to have been tranquil. The emperor was helped in the work of administration by a number of able governors like-Parņadatta, viceroy of the west, Sarvanāga, District Officer (Vishayapati) of Antarvedi or the Gangetic Doāb, and Bhimavarman, the ruler of the Kosam region.2 Chakra pālita, son of Parņadatta, restored in A.D. 457-58 the embankment of the lake Sudarsana at Girnar which had burst two years previously. .
The emperor continued the tolerant policy of his forefathers. Himself a Bhagavata or worshipper of Krishņa-Vishņu, he and his officers did not discourage followers of other sects, e.g., Jainas and devotees of the Sun. The people were also tolerant. The Kahāum inscription commemorates the erection of Jaina images by a person "full of affection for Brāhmaṇas. 3 The Indore plate records a deed by a Brāhmaṇa endowing a lamp in a temple of the Sun...
1 Cf. the Kahāum Ins. of 141 = A. D. 460-1. · 2 The inclusion within Skanda's empire of provinces lying still further to the east is proved by the Bhitari and Bihār Pillar Inscriptions and possibly by gold coins of the Archer type struck on a standard of 1446 grains of metal. Allan, p. xcviii, 118.
3 Cf. The Pāhādpur epigraph of the year 159 (A. D. 479) which records a donation made by a Brāhmaṇa couple for the worship of the Divine Arhats, ie., the Jinas.
