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

304 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
dark fortnight' and 'the bright fort-
night;' they denote the fortnight, and
the solar or more properly civil day in
the fortnight or in the month . . 85 n., 92 n.
Baghēlkhaṇḍ, inscriptions from . . 93,
100, 106, 110, 112, 121, 125, 129, 132, 135
bāhulēya, 'a bull' . . . . 157 and n.
Balādhikṛita, an official title . 109 n., 210 and n.
Bālāditya, a biruda or second name of
Dhruvasēna II. of Valabhī . . 41, 182
Bālāditya, a king of Kāśī, and apparently
not the first of that name, 285, 286 ;—
another king of Kāśī, of the same
name; his wife was Dhavalā . . 286
Bālāditya, Bālādityadēva, an early king
of Magadha, who is mentioned by
Hiuen Tsiang in connection with
Mihirakula, 215, 218 ;—there is pro-
bably an allusion to him in the Sārnāth
inscription . . . . . 286
Balavarman, a king in Northern India,
conquered by Samudragupta . . 13
Balavarman parichchhēda; an ancient
territorial division in Baghēlkhaṇḍ . 105
bali, one of the five great sacrificial rites
116 and n., 124, 129, 132, 170, 190, 290
Bali, a demon, whose power was over-
thrown by Vishṇu in his incarnation as
a dwarf . . . . . . 62
Bandhuvarman, a Mālava feudatory of
Kumāragupta (Early Gupta), 7, 80, 86 ;
—the Mandasôr inscription, which gives
for him the date of the Mālava year
493, . . . 79 ;— the value of this
record, in proving that the Gupta era
runs from an epoch in or very close to
A.D. 319-20 . . . . . 65
Bandhuvatsasvāmin, a grantee . . 199
bappa, a Prākṛit word meaning 'a father'
186 n., 188, 189
Bāppadēva, a Sēnāpati of Pravarasēna II. 249
Bappārya, a grantee . . . . 243
Bappasvāmin, a grantee . . . 105
Barābar Hill, in the Gayā District; men-
tioned under the ancient name of
Pravaragiri, 222, 223 ; —the cave in-
scription of Anantavarman . .
bāva, a Prākṛit word denoting 'a relative
of the same generation with a father;'
i.e., generally, 'an uncle' . . 18, 186 n.
Bayley, Sir E. Clive; the views express
by him on the Gupta era and connec
matters, with the result that he
lected the epoch of A.D. 190-91 . 3, 58
Beal, the Rev. S. ; certain points in
translation of the Travels of Hiuen
Tsiang, which may be made more clear
through the Early Gupta chronology 40
Benares mentioned under the ancient
name of Kāśī . . . . 286
Benares District, an inscription from the 284
Bendall, Mr. C. ; the importance of his
discovery of the Gôlmāḍhitôl
tion of Śivadēva I. of the (Gupta) year
316, which proves the use of the so-
called Gupta era in Nēpāl, and fixes
the chronology of the early rulers of
that country . . . . . 96
Bengal Asiatic Society's Library, an in-
scription from the . . . . 200
Bengal Presidency, inscriptions from the
47, 200, 208, 211, 212 n., 213, 221, 223,
226, 254, 274, 278, 280, 281, 283
Beṇṇākārpara bhāga, an ancient division
in the territory of the Vākāṭaka Mahā-
rājas . . . . . . 248
Berars, an inscription from the . . 235
Bhadra, a proper name . . . 259
Bhadrāryā, a proper name . . . 51, 52
bhāga, a territorial term . . . 248
bhāgabhōga, 'royalties,' a fiscal expression
120 and n., 124, 129, 132, 138, 254 and n.
Bhagadatta, the name of a king, or of a
family of kings; a Nēpāl inscription
allots Harsha of Gauḍa, Kaliṅga,
Kōsala, Ōḍra, &c., to the Bhagadatta
lineage, 187 ; — intermarriage of this
family with the Thākurī rulers of
Nēpāl . . . . . . 187
Bhāgalpur District, an inscription from the 211
bhagavadbhakta, a Vaishṇava sectarian
title . . . . . . 271
Bhagavaddōsha, a proper name . . 156
bhagavat, in the sense of 'divine,' de-
notes the god Vishṇu, if not connected
with any other specific name, 28 n. ;—
thus used (see also some of the secta-
rian titles quoted under Vaishṇava
inscriptions), 40, 41, 123, 124, 129,
269, 270 ;—applied to Buddha, 28 n.,
47, 262 ; — to Kārttikēya, 28 n., 44 ;—
to Jinēndra, 28 n. ;—to Śiva, 28 n., 36,
290 ;—to the Sun, 28 n., 71, 218 ;—to
Vishṇu, 28 n., 56, 78, 90, 115, 142,
161 ; — applied to priests, in the sense
of 'venerable,' 28 n. ;—and to Vyāsa,
the arranger of the Vēdas 28 n., 98,
105, 109, 116, 120, 124, 129, 134, 171
Bhāgavata, a Vaishṇava sect . . 28 n., 123
bhagavatī, feminine of bhagavat; applied
to the goddess Pishṭapurī or Pishṭa-
purikā . . . . 116, 132, 138
Bhagīratha, an epic hero . . . 77
Bhāgīrathī, the river Gaṅgā, as 'belong-
ing to Bhagīratha,' with reference to
the legend of his bringing down the
river from heaven to earth . . 241, 248
Bhagraha, or Bhāgraha ; the Dātaka of the
grants of Hastin of the (Gupta) years
156 and 163 . . . 100 and n., 105
Bhagwanlal Indraji, Dr. ; remarks on, and
rectification of, the historical results
deduced by him from the Nēpāl in-
scriptions . . . 95, 96 and n., 177 to 191
Bhāgyadēvī, daughter of Bhōgadēvī and
Śūrasēna or Sūrasēna . . . 180
Bhairava, see Svāmi-Mahābhairava . 241, 248