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

320 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Kâcha; the name of two chieftains
mentioned in an inscription in the
Ajaṇṭâ caves, 27 n.;—the name also
occurs on certain gold coins which
have always been attributed to Ghaṭôt-
kacha; but, if they are Early Gupta
coins, as seems probable, they must
be attributed to Samudragupta, and
Kâcha must be his biruda or second
name . . . . . . 18, 27 n.
Kâcharapallika, an ancient village in the
Maṇinâga pêtha . . . . 138
Kahâum, a village in the Gôrakhpur Dis-
trict; mentioned under the ancient
name of Kakubha or Kakubhagrâma,
66, 67; — the pillar inscription of
Skandagupta . . . . 65
Kailâsa, a mountain in the Himâlaya
range, 78, 85, 86; — mentioned as one
of the breasts of the earth . . 86 and n.
Kailâsakûṭabhavana, the palace of the
Ṭhâkurî rulers of Nêpâl . 178 to 182, 189, 190
Kaira (Khêḍâ), the chief town of the
Kaira District; mentioned under the
ancient name of Khêṭaka, 95 n., 173,
189;—examination of the date in the
grant of Dharasêna IV. of the (Gupta-
Valabhî) year 330 . . . . 93
Kaira District, an inscription from the . 171
Kâka, a tribe, conquered by Samudra-
gupta . . . . . . 14
Kâkanâda, the ancient name of Sâñchi in
the Asôka period . . . . 31
Kâkanâdabôta, the name of the great
Stûpa at Sâñchi in the Gupta period 31, 32, 262
Kakka, a proper name . . 148, 150
Kakubha, Kakubhagrâma, the ancient
Sanskrit name of Kahâum . . 66, 67
kâla, 'time, a space of time,' may be
used in the sense of 'an era,' and is so
used in respect of the Vikrama and
Śaka eras; but there is no ancient
authority for the early existence of
the term Gupta-Kâla for the Gupta
era . . . . . . 19, 22
Kalachuri, a dynasty of kings in Central
India; their dynastic name occurs under
the Sanskritised form of Kalatsûri, in a
record of the sixth century A.D.; and
they are perhaps mentioned, under the
name of the Ârjunâyanas, in the Allah-
âbâd pillar inscription . . . 10
Kalachuri or Chêdi era, an era used by
the Kalachuri kings of Central India;
early instances of the use of it are per-
haps to be found in the records of the
Mahârâjas of Uchchakalpa, which,
however, would seem to require for the
era an epoch about twenty-five years
later than the epoch of A.D. 249-50
proposed by Gen. Sir A Cunningham,
8, 9, 10;—also in the grants of the
Traikûṭaka Mahârâjas, 9 n.;—(and
possibly in the Bôdh-Gayâ inscription
of Mahânâman, the date of which has
been referred in this volume to the
Gupta era, 16, 275);—Prof. Kielhorn
quoted as having fixed the commence-
ment of the era in A.D. 249, with the
epoch of A.D. 248-49 . . . 10
Kali age (see also Kaliyuga era), the last
and worst of the four Yugas or ages
of the world; the one in which we now
are . . . . . . 156, 168, 182
Kâlindî, the river Yamuna (Jamnâ) . 90
Kaliyuga era, an era commencing, with
the beginning of the Kali age, in B.C.
3102, though usually represented as com-
mencing in B.C. 3101; it is of but rare
use in epigraphical records, 69 n.;—
quotations of the reckoning of this era,
both by current and by expired years,
from Hindu almanacs, 138 to 141;—its
duration is 432,000 years of men; and
we are still only in the saṁdhyâ of it, 138
to 141, 139 n.;—it was the original
astronomical era of the Hindus; and
the substitution of the Śaka era for it,
for astronomical purposes, seems to have
taken place between A.D. 476 and 587 143
kalpa-tree, a fabulous tree in Indra's
paradise, granting all desires . . 168, 228
Kâmadêva, the god of love (see also
Smara); a mention of his two wives,
Prîti and Rati, 85;—a reference to
his bow of flowers, 86;—a reference to
his destruction by Śiva, 87;—an enu-
meration of the five flowers that form
his arrows, 87;—mentioned as having
a banner of flowers . . . 58
Kamaladêvî, wife of Dêvaguptadêva of
Magadha . . . . . 217
Kâmarûpa, a country, the modern Assam,
or its western portion; Samudragupta
either included it in his empire, or else
extended his conquests up to the con-
fines of it . . . . 9 n., 14 and n.
Kanauj, a town in the Farrukhâbâd Dis-
trict; perhaps mentioned, in connec-
tion with Samudragupta, under the
ancient name of Pushpapura . . 5, 12
Kanauj, Harshavardhana of, or more
properly of Thâṇêsar; his genealogy . 232
Kâñchî, a town in Southern India, the
modern 'Conjeveram;' in the time of
Samudragupta, its king was Vishṇu-
gôpa . . . . . . 13
Kâṇḍârya, a grantee . . . . 243
Kângra District, an inscription from the 286
Kaṇva or Kaṇvâyana, a tribe, family, or
dynasty; there is no foundation for
the supposition that the Kaṇva prince
Nârâyaṇa, mentioned in the Vishṇu-
Purâṇa, is mentioned as the Tushâra
king Vishṇu, in the Tusâm rock in-
scription . . . . . 270
Kapâlêśvara, the god Śiva, as 'the lord
who is decorated with a garland of
skulls' . . . . . . 290
Kapila, an ancient sage . . . . 115