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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; INDEX. 315
Gupta sovereignty, 31; — a curious
instance of confusion, by the Jain
writer Śîlâchârya, between the Gupta
and the Śaka eras, 32 n.; — the epochs
of the Gupta era, based, by previous
writers, on Reinaud’s translation of
Albêrûnî; viz. by Mr. Thomas, the
Śaka epoch, A.D. 77-78; by Gen. Sir
A. Cunningham, A.D. 166-67; by Sir
E. Clive Bayley, A.D. 190-91; and by
Mr. Fergusson, A.D. 318-19, .. 31 to
33; — examination of these theories,
33 to 65; — remarks on the Mandasôr
inscription of the Mâlava year 529, ..
65 to 68; — it proves that any state-
ment that the Early Gupta sovereignty
was extinguished in or about A.D.
319, is wrong; and that the era used
by the Early Gupta kings runs from
an epoch in or very close to that year,
68; — the determination of the exact
epoch of the era, with the result of
A.D. 319-20, equivalent to Śaka-Saṁ-
vat 241 expired, 69; — the scheme of
the years of the era, 69, 71; — it
included the Pûrṇimânta arrangement
of the lunar fortnights, 77, 85; — proof
that the Gupta year did not commence
with the months Kârttika or Mârga-
śîrsha, 86, 87, 90, 108, 111, 115, 118; —
the treatment of it as a northern Śaka
year, gives satisfactory results for
every recorded date, except two which
are capable of explanation, 84, 90, 97,
99, 104 n.; — and it is almost certain
that it soon became identical in all
respects with the northern Śaka year,
having Chaitra śukla 1 as its initial
day, 79; — the calculation of recorded
dates, the results of which answer to
the above conditions, 80, 84, 95, 97,
104, 110, 114, 117, 119; — the Êraṇ
pillar inscription of Budhagupta of
the (Gupta) year 165, proves that the
running difference between current
Gupta-Valabhî and current Śaka years
is two hundred and forty-two years; and
that, in following Albêrûnî and adding
two hundred and forty-one, what we
obtain is the last Śaka year expired
before the commencement of the
current Śaka year corresponding to a
given current Gupta-Valabhî year, 84;
— the Verâwal inscription of Arjuna-
dêva of the Valabhî year 945, proves
that the original Pûrṇimânta arrange-
ment was preserved with the Gupta
year, in Kâṭhiâwâḍ, up to A.D.
1264, .. 90; — the two exceptional
dates are those in the Verâwal inscrip-
tion of the Valabhî year 927, and in
the Kaira grant of Dharasêna IV. of
the (Gupta-Valabhî) year 330, the
results for which answer to a year
commencing with the month Kârttika
preceding the true commencement of
the Gupta year, 90, 93; — the explana-
tion of this difference, 72, 73, 92, 93,
95; — proof as to the epoch afforded
by the use of the Twelve-Year Cycle of
Jupiter in records of the Early Gupta
period, 101 to 124; — summary of the
results, which prove A.D. 319-20 as
the epoch of the era and A.D. 320-21
as its first current year, 124 to 127; —
proof that the years in Gupta-Valabhî
dates are to be interpreted as current
years, unless the contrary is distinctly
specified, 127 to 130; — inquiry as to
the origin of the era, 130 to 137; — its
epoch, or its commencement, was not
determined by the expiration, from the
epoch or the commencement of the
Śaka era, of an even number of Cycles
of Jupiter, either of the Twelve-Year
or of the Sixty-Year system, or by any
other astronomical considerations, 33,
130; — but its origin must be found in
some historical event, which occurred
actually in A.D. 320, .. 130; — it was
not established by any member of the
Valabhî family, 130; — nor by the
Mahârâja Gupta, the founder of the
Early Gupta family, 130; — it cannot
run from the accession of Chandragupta
I., the first paramount sovereign in the
family, 131, 132; — it was adopted by
the Early Guptas from some extraneous
source, 132; — the reasons for which
they would not adopt any era then in
use in India itself, 132 to 134; — the so-
called Gupta era was in use, outside
India, in Nêpâl, by the Lichchhavi rulers
of that country, 95, 96, 134, 184; — fur-
ther instances of this, 178, 182, 183, 184;
— the antiquity and power of the Lich-
chhavis, and the friendly relations,
including intermarriage, between them
and the Early Guptas, would dispose
the latter to adopt any Lichchhavi era,
135; — and in all probability the so-
called Gupta era is a Lichchhavi era,
dating either from the general establish-
ment of monarchy among the Lich-
chhavis, or from the commencement of
the reign of the Lichchhavi king Jaya-
dêva I. in Nêpâl . . . . . 136
Gupta-kâla, an expression used by Albê-
rûnî for the Gupta era; it is a perfectly
justifiable term, but there is no autho-
rity for the early existence of it . 19,
22, 24, 25, 30
Gupta-nṛipa-râjya-bhuktau, a technical
expression in the grants of the Pari-
vrâjaka Mahârâjas, shewing that at
certain dates the Gupta sovereignty
was still continuing . . 42, 43, 50,
101, 104, 110, 114, 117, 95 and n., 96,
104, 108, 115
Gupta-Valabhî era; a convenient name
for the Gupta era during the period
when, through its use by the Kings of
Valabhî, it may have begun to be called
the Valabhî era . . . . . 23
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