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

316 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Guptas, the Early, 7 n. ;— the actual dates
of their records extend from A.D. 401
to 466, . . 7 ;— but the records of the
Parivrâjaka Mahârâjas prove that the
Gupta dominion continued to A.D. 528,
. . 8 ;— their final overthrow was
accomplished by Mihirakula, 10 ; —
their genealogical tree, 17 ;—there is
nothing to support the supposition that
they belonged to the Solar Race, 19,
1 ; — their family mentioned as the
Guptavaṁśa, 20, 55, 67 ;— and as the
Guptânvaya, 259 ;— mention of them
in the plural, as a family or dynasty,
19, 20, 63, 65, 67 ; — mention of them
as the Gupta kings, 104, 110, 114, 117,
96, 104, 108 115 ;—mention of them, in
the Junâgadh rock inscription, in con-
nection with the reckoning of an era, 19,
20, 21, 22, 57 n., 63, 65 ;— but there is
no ancient authority for connecting
their name with the Gupta era, as the
establishers of it, 19 ;—remarks on some
of their coins (for the legends on their
silver coins, see Ind. Ant. XIV. 65),
36 n., 12 ns., 14 ns., 15 n., 25 n., 27 n.,
28 ns., 46 n. ;—allusions to a temporary
obscuration of their power between the
reigns of Kumâragupta and Skanda-
gupta, 55 ; — a further indication of
this is perhaps given by Kumâragupta
having only the title of Mahârâja in
the Mankuwâr inscription, 46 ;— men-
tion of them in Yaśôdharman's pillar
inscription . . . . . 146, 148
Guptas of Magadha, 7 n., 14, 205, 206, 207,
208, 210, 212, 213 n., 217 ;— the family
was an offshoot of the Early Gupta
stock ; and the founder of it, Kṛishṇa-
gupta, came very shortly after Skanda-
gupta, 14 ;—intermarriages of this
family, with the Maukharis, 14, 187 ;—
with the Kings of Kanauj, or more pro-
perly of Thâṇêsar, 15, 232 ;— and with
the Vâkâṭaka Mahârâjas . . 15, 240, 247
Guptasya kâla, ‘the time or era of Gupta;’
an expression supposed, but quite
wrongly, to exist in the Junâgadh rock
inscription of Skandagupta, 19, 44, 57 n.;
— and in abbreviated forms on certain
Kâbul coins . . . . 19, 57 to 60
Gwâlior (Gwâlhêr), the capital of Scindia's
Dominions; the hill on which the
fortress stands, mentioned under the
ancient Saṁskṛit name of Gôpa, 162
and n., 163 ;— the modern name of
Gwâlior is derived directly from Gôpâ-
likhêra, 162 n. ; — the inscription of
Mihirakula . . . . . 161
Haidarâbâd in the Dekkan ; examination
of the date of the grant, of the Śaka
year 524 expired, of Pulikêśin II.,
which proves that up to A.D. 612, the
Pūrṇimānta arrangement of the lunar
fortnights was used with the Śaka
years, even in Southern India . . . 79 n.
Hâlârî year ; a year with Âshâḍha śukla
1 as its initial day, used in the western
part of Kâṭhiâwâḍ . . . . 79 n.
halirâkara, a fiscal term requiring ex-
planation . . . . . . 134 n
Hall, Dr. F. E. ; views expressed by him
on the Gupta era and connected
matters . . . . . . 42
Haṁsamitra, a grantee . . . . 218
Hanumat, the chief of the monkeys ; men-
tioned as ‘the son of the Wind,’ and with
a reference to his leap through the air
from the mountain Kôśavardhana . 205
Hara, the god Śiva, as ‘the seizer or
despoiler’ . . . . 87, 206, 208
Haradatta, a grantee . . . . 298
Hari, the god Vishṇu . . . . 156
Haribala, a proper name . . . 272
Haribhaṭa, a proper name . . . 78
Harigupta, a proper name . . . 281
Hariśarmârya, a grantee . . . 243
Harishêṇa, Sâṁdhivigrahika, Kumârá-
mâtya, and Mahâdaṇḍanâyaka, the
composer of the Allâhâbâd posthumous
pillar inscription of Samudragupta . 16
Harisvâminî, a proper name . . 262
Haritrâta, a proper name . . . 71
Harivarman, Mahârâja (Maukhari), 221 ;
— his wife was Jayasvâminî . . 221
Harivishṇu, a proper name . . 90, 160
Harsha, also called Vikramâditya, a
king of Ujjain, mentioned in the
Râjataraṁgiṇî, allotted by Mr.
Fergusson to the sixth century A.D.,
and held by him to be the real person
in commemoration of whom the Vikrama
era was invented and named . 47, 55, 56
Harsha of Gauḍa, Kaliṅga, Kôsala, Ôḍra,
&c. ; in a Nêpâl inscription, he is men-
tioned as belonging to the Bhagadatta
family, 187 ;— his daughter, Râjyamatî,
was the wife of Jayadêva II. of Nêpâl . 187
Harsha, or Harshavardhana, of Kanauj, or
more properly of Thâṇêsar, 15, 232 ; —
mentioned under the name of Harsha-
dêva, 207 ;— his name was simply
Harsha or Harshavardhana, and not
Śrîharsha or Śrîharshavardhana, 207
n. ; — Hiuen Tsiang gives him the biruda
or second name of Sîlâditya, 39, 40 ;—
his accession, as determined by the
commencement of the Harsha era, is to
be placed in A.D. 606, . . 178 n. ; — his
Sônpât seal . . . . . 231
Harsha era ; an early era of this name,
commencing in or about B.C. 457, is
mentioned by Albêrûnî, 23, 24, 30 ; — but
there is no other evidence of its exist-
ence, 23 n. ;— the only proved era of
this name, is that which runs from