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then or a similar status of whatsoever nature But the irony of the fate is that at present this village has no importance of any kind it had enjoyed nearly 2000 years before
This unique spot of 6 Western Kshatrapa inscriptions helps us in arriving at the conclusion that the Kshatrapa kings might have come to Gujarät directly from Central Asia or Iran and had settled down first in Kachchh If this is so, than this inference docs collaborate the thesis advocated by this author regarding the independent political status of Western Kshatrapa lings. 1. It seems to me very necessary that large-scale excavation is needed in and around the present village of Andhau, which I hope, may probably shed much light on the Western Kshatrapas in every respect 15
References
1 Five stone-inscriptions from Andhau in Kachchh district were found
in the last decade of Ainteenth Century A D, and were taken care of by the Diwan Bahadur Ranchhodbhai Udayaram, the then Diwan of the Kachchh stato After that Shri D. R. Bhandarkar, the then Assistant Superintendent of the Western Circle of the Archacological Survey of India, again took notice of these inscriptions in January 1906 Out of these, four were published in the Epigraphica Indica. The fifth one of these, which lay unpublished since then, is under review here Recently discovered Andhau inscription of the year 11 was edit. od and published by Mrs Shobhana Gokhale in the Journal of Ancient
Indian History, Vol.2, p. 104. 2 For 4 Inscriptions of the year 52 sce Epigraphica Indica; Vol. XVI,
pp. 23 ff., and of the year 11 see Journal of Ancient Indian History,
Vol. 11, Nos, 1-2, pp. 104 ff, Calcutta, 1969 3 This may be read as ज्येष्ठामूलीये, 4 This it seems doubtful. Probably it may be si, 5 Epigraphica Indica, Vol. VII, pp. 42 ff. 6 Ibly, Vol. XVI, pp. 233 ff. 1 Ibid, Vol. XVI, pp. 241 ff & Ibid, Vol. XVI, pp. 238 ff.
