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Dr. SUDARSHAN KUMAR SHARMA
SAMBODHI
"Caturmukha Mukhāmbhoja Vanahansa Vadhūrmama.
mānase ramatām nityam sarvaśuklā Sarasvati” occurring only in the Calcutta Edition but missing in Bombay edition followed by others such as P. V. Kane, Jaganātha Pathaka, Süryanārāyana Chaudharī, E. B. Cowell and F. W. Thomas, and even Dr. V. S. Agravāla, prompts one to conclude the posteriority of Bāņa to Dandi who flourished in all probability after Kamandaka and contemporaneously or before or even after Visnusarmā who wrote his Pañcatantra as a grand father of the donee of the Tandīvāda grant which was issued from Pistapūre of Ancient Kalinga (5th century A. D)38 as held by Dr. Sarat Candra Behera in Indian Historical Quarterly Volume XXXVIII 2-3, June-Sept. 1962, pp 160-167.
The fact of handing over the kingdom of Magadha and Mālava to his son by the Magadha overlord as per Dandi's assertion in Daśakumāra carita the possibility of handing over the sole monarchy of Malaveto Simha Varmā (originally Angarāja) as an ally and subsidiary confeduate, is not an impossibility. That is why in post Gupta panegyrics of Naravarman (Mandasor Praśash) we find one Simha Varmā, Son of Jaya Varmā and father of Naravarmā,39 (and in Gangadhara Lekha of Viśva Varmā40 dated Mālava Samvat 480 i. e. 423 A. D.) we find Visvavarmā as the son of Naravarmā reigning as subsidiary, vassals holding supremacy in their own territories (Jaya Varma narendrasya pautre devendra Vikrame Kșitīše Simha Varman-ah Simhavikkrānt gāmini, satputre śrīmahārāja nara Varmani Parthive” and śrīmān-abhūva naravarmma nrpati Prakāśaḥ-tasyātmajah- bhuvi Viśva-Varmmaā.
Obviously Naravarmā's time tallies with that of Candragupta II Vikramaditya of Gupta dynasty and that of Viśva Varmā with that of Kumāra Gupta I, the successor of Candra Gupta II in so far as Mehrauli Iron Pillar Inscription of Candra (Candra gupta II Vikramaditya)" is dated 413 A D. and Bhilasad Pillar Inscription of Kumāra Gupta I is dated Gupta era 96 i. e. 415 A. D.42 Sinha Varmā father of Naravarmā dating his Inscription as 404 A. D., obviously comes much earlier in the reign of Candragupta II whose Sanchi Pillar Inscription is dated Gupta Era 93 i.e. 412 A. D.", and Udaya Giri Guptā lekha is dated 82 Gupta era i. e. 401 A. D.) and Mathurā Pillar Inscription is dated Gupta era 61 i. e. 380 A. D.44 Dandi as the acquaintance of Sinha Varmā Angarāja holding sway over Mālava, by all means becomes a contemporary of Candra Gupta II or Kumāra Gupta and even Skandagupta whose Jūnāgadha Inscription is dated Gupta era 136 i. e. 455 A. D.)45
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