गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; APPENDIX IV. 191
In the Lichchhavi family, the earliest name for which we have as yet a definite
date, is that of Śivadêva I., A.D. 635. And either Śivavṛiddhavarman, No. 14 in the
Vaṁśâvali list of the Sûryavaṁśi family, or Śivavavarman, No. 16 in the same, seems to be
intended for him. The next name is that of Dhruvadêva, A.D. 653, who is not given or
represented in the Vaṁśâvali. The connection between Śivadêva I. and Dhruvadêva, is
not as yet explained. But they probably belonged both to one branch of the family;
though, from their not being mentioned in inscription R., certainly not to the same branch
with Vasantadêva and his ancestors. Their contemporaries of the Thâkurî family were re-
spectively Aṁśuvarman and Jishṇugupta. They were followed by another branch of the same
family, introduced about A.D. 630 (not A.D. 260, as proposed by Dr. Bhagwanlal
Indraji) by Vṛishadêva, who was the contemporary of Śivadêva I.; and represented, as far
as definite dates go, by Mânadêva in A.D. 705 and 732-33 (not A.D. 329 and 356), and by
Vasantasêna or Vasantadêva in A.D. 754 (not A.D. 378). The six names from Vṛishadêva
to Vasantasêna, are given correctly in the Vaṁśâvali, as Nos. 18 to 23 of the Sûryavaṁśi
family. If inscription R. is to be accepted throughout, this branch of the family was founded
by Jayadêva I. He is doubtless the person who is intended by Jayavarman, No. 3 in the Vaṁ-
śâvali list of the Sûryavaṁśi family. And, calculating back fifteen generations, at the average
rate of twenty-five years, from Mânadêva, whose generation is represented by his recorded
dates, we have for Jayadêva I. the initial date of about A.D. 330 (not A.D. 1). But, if
Vṛishadêva was a direct lineal descendant of Jayadêva I., it is rather peculiar that the com-
poser of inscription R., writing only five generations after him, was unable to give the names
of the persons, only eleven in number, who intervened before him and after Jayadêva I. It
would seem, therefore, that, though the number of generations may be accepted, there was
at this point a break in the direct succession.
In the Thâkurî family, the earliest name is that of Aṁśuvarman, with the extreme
dates of A.D. 635 and 649 or 650; and the next is that of Jishṇugupta, A.D. 653. Aṁśu-
varman is mentioned in the Vaṁśâvali, under exactly the same name, as the founder of the
Thâkurî family; but Jishṇugupta's name is not given or represented. The connection between
them is not as yet explained. They were followed by Udayadêva (about A.D. 675, not
A.D. 400) and his descendants, who, from there being no mention of Aṁśuvarman and
Jishṇugupta in inscription R., plainly belonged to another branch of the family. Udayadêva
was contemporaneous with Dharmadêva of the Lichchhavi family; he is not mentioned in
the Vaṁśâvali, being certainly not the Udayadêvavarman, No. 24 in the Vaṁśâvali list of
the Sûryavaṁśi family. His son, Narêndradêva, is possibly the person intended by Narên-
dradêva, No. 7 in the Vaṁśâvali list of the Thâkurî family. His son, Śivadêva II., A.D.
725 and 748 (?), is not mentioned in the Vaṁśâvali. His son, Jayadêva II., A.D. 750 (?)
and 758, is possibly the person intended by Jayadêva, No. 11 in the Vaṁśâvali list of the
Thâkurî family.