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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; INDEX. 323
kuśalin, being in good health,' used in
the preamble of grants . 119 and n.,
123, 128, 132, 138, 169, 217, 298
Kusthalapura, a town in Southern India;
in the time of Samudragupta, its king
was Dhananjaya . . . . . 13
Kuṭila, a conventional name for a parti-
cular variety of the northern alphabet. 201
ḷ, a southern letter; instances of its use
in northern inscriptions . . . . 4, 269
Laghu-Ārya-Siddhānta, the customary
name of the Siddhānta by the second
Āryabhaṭa; the date of it is between
A.D. 628-29 and 1150-51 . . . 156 n.
Lāhôr, the chief town of the Lāhôr Dis-
trict; the seal of the Mahārāja Mahēś-
varanāga . . . . . . 282
Lāhôr Provincial Museum, an inscription
from the . . . . . . 25
Lakshmā, a proper name . . . 40
Lakshmī, wife of the god Vishṇu, and
goddess of wealth and fortune (see
also Śrī), 61, 286;—mention of a form
of this goddess, at Mānapura, under the
name of Pishṭapurī or Pishṭapurikādēvī,
113 and n., 116, 132, 138;—Lakshmī
and elephants, on seals of grants . 191, 196
Lakshmīvatī, wife of Īśānavarman 220 n., 221
Lambôshṭha, a grantee . . . 105
lāñchhana, 'a crest,' as distinguished
from dhvaja, 'a banner' . . . 151 n.
Laṅkā, one of the names of Ceylon 275,
277, 278
Lāṭa vishaya, an ancient name of Central
and Southern Gujarāt . . . 80, 84
Lauhitya, the river Brahmaputra (see
also Lôhitya) . . . . 145, 148
lēkhaka, a 'writer' (see also likhita), a
technical term for the actual drafter
or writer of a record, as opposed to
the composer of it . . . 88, 291
Lichchhavi, the traditional name of a
very early member of the family of the
Lichchhavis of Nêpâl . . . 185
Lichchhavi (see also Lichchhivi) the per-
sonal or tribal name of the father-in-law
of Chandragupta I., 16, 28, 44, 51;—
whence the name of 'the Lichchhavis'
appears on some of his coins, 135;—
and the epithet 'daughter's son of Lich-
chhavi or of a Lichchhavi' was always
applied to his son Samudragupta. 135,
16, 28, 44, 51, 54, 257
Lichchhavi era; this would probably be
the more correct name of the so-called
Gupta era . . . . . . 136
Lichchhavi-kula-kētu, 'the banner or
glory of the Lichchhavi family;' an epi-
thet of Śivadēva I. of Nêpâl, 177,
178; — and of Dhruvadēva of Nêpâl . 181
Lichchhavi rulers of Nêpâl; their early
traditional genealogy, which is traced
back to the god Brahman through
Sûrya or the Sun, 185;— in accordance
with which, their family is mentioned
in the Nêpâl Vaṁśāvalī as a Sûrya-
vaṁśi family, i.e. as belonging to the
Sûryavaṁśa or Solar Lineage, 188; —
but, in the code of Manu, a Lichchhavi
or Lichchhivi is defined as the offspring
of a degraded Kshatriya, 16 n.;—
mention of their family under the
names of Lichchhavikula and
Lichchhavivaṁśa, 177, 178, 181, 185;—
and with the indication that it had
originally another name, not now
known, 185; —the first historical person
in the family is Jayadēva I., 185, 186;—
the palace of the Lichchhavi rulers of
Nêpâl was Mānagṛiha, 177, 178, 180, 181,
189, 190; — they used the so-called
Gupta era, 96, 184, 188; — instances of
this, 178, 182, 183, 184; — the dates of
the known members of this family,
189; — they seem to have had the
government of the eastern portion
of Nêpâl, 190; — the great antiquity of
the Lichchhavi clan or tribe, 135; —
the connection by marriage between
the Lichchhavis of Nêpâl and the Early
Guptas, 135; — so-called Gupta
era is probably a Lichchhavi era,
dating from the monarchical consti-
tution of the Lichchhavis, or from the
accession of Jayadēva I. in Nêpâl . . 136
Lichchhivi, a variant for Lichchhavi; as
the personal or tribal name of the
father-in-law of Chandragupta I., 54,
257; — and in the code of Manu . . 16 n.
likhita, 'written' (see also lēkhaka),
a technical term in connection with
the manual drafting or writing of a
record, as opposed to the composition
and engraving of it . 99 and n., 105,
109, 116, 120, 124, 129, 134, 139, 171, 190
liṅga, the phallic emblem, connected
with the worship of Śiva 180 and n.,
182, 241, 248
Lôhitya, the river Brahmaputra (see also
Lauhitya) . . . . . 206
Lôkakâla, a method of reckoning by
cycles of a hundred years; Albêrûnî's
illustration of the conversion of Lôka-
kâla dates into Śaka dates through the
Gupta reckoning, 26 n.; — it entails the
use of the first current year of the
Gupta era, not of its epoch, 27 n.; —
according to Kalhaṇa's statement in
the Rājataraṁgiṇī, the first year of
each Lôkakâla cycle coincided with
the forty-eighth current year of each
century of the Śaka era, 26 n.;—
according to Albêrûnî's statements, the
first year of each Lôkakâla cycle in
Multân and those parts, commenced
from one to three years later, 27 n.; —
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