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

328 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Nachnê-kî-talâî, a village in the Jasô
State; the inscriptions of Pṛithivîshêṇa 211
Nâga race or tribe; a possible allusion to
a defeat of the Nâgas by Skandagupta,
62 and n.; — and by Tîvaradêva, 298
and n.; — the Mahârâja Mahêśvara-
nâga must have been of this race,
283; — other chiefs of this race are
probably to be found in Gaṇapatinâga,
Nâgadatta, and Nâgasêna, who were
conquered by Samudragupta . . 12, 13
Nâgabhaṭṭa, a proper name . . . 283
Nâgadatta, a king in Northern India,
conquered by Samudragupta . . . 13
Nâgadêya santaka, an ancient division in
the territories of the Mahârâjas of
Uchchakalpa, 120; — it is not to be
identified with the modern Nâgaudh . 94 n.
Nagara bhukti, an ancient territorial
division in Bihâr . . . . 218
Nâgârjunî Hill, in the Gayâ District;
mentioned as a part of the Vindhya
range, 227, 228; — the cave inscrip-
tions of Anantavarman . . . 223, 226
Nâgasarî, an ancient village or tank in
Bâghêlkhaṇḍ . . . . . 105
Nâgaśarman, a grantee, 105; — another
of the same name, 243; — and a third
of the same name . . . . 243
Nâgasêna, a king in Northern India,
conquered by Samudragupta . . 12, 13
Nâgasiṁha, Mahâbalâdhikrita, the
Dûtaka of the grant of Hastin of the
(Gupta) year 191 . . . . 109
Nâgaudh or Nâgaundh, the name of a
State in Bâghêlkhaṇḍ; it is possibly
derived from nâgavadha or nâgabandha,
but is certainly not to be identified
with Nâgadêya, 94 n.; — inscriptions
from this State . . 93, 100, 106, 110,
112, 121, 125, 129, 132, 135
Nâgavatsasvâmin, a grantee . . . 199
Nâgpur Provincial Museum, inscriptions
from the . . . . . 191, 196
Naigama, 'an interpreter of Vêdic quota-
tions and words' . . . . 156
'nail-headed' characters . . 19 and n., 106
nakshatra, 'a lunar mansion,' 163; —
the grouping of the nakshatras for
naming the years of the Twelve-Year
Cycle of Jupiter, according to the
heliacal-rising system, 162, 163; — a
variation by Garga and Parâśara, as
quoted by Utpala, from the usually
accepted grouping, 163 n.; — the longi-
tudes of the ending-points of the nak-
shatras, according to the equal-space
system, by which each nakshatra repre-
sents the exact twenty-seventh part of
the ecliptic circle; according to the Garga
system of unequal spaces, governed by .
the same primary division; and accord-
ing to the Brahma-Siddhânta system
of unequal spaces, governed by the
moon's daily mean motion, and intro-
ducing the additional nakshatra
Abhijit, 165; — the proof that we must
apply one or other of the unequal-
space systems in dealing with the
records of the Early Gupta period,
106; — and that one or other of them
was in use, or both of them were, up
to A.D. 862, . . 107 n.; — Dhanishṭhâ
was the first nakshatra for the Five-
Year Cycle of the Vêdâṅga-Jyautisha;
and it seems to have been taken by
Varâhamihira as the first nakshatra
for the Sixty-Year Cycle of Jupiter
according to the mean-sign system,
173 n.; — the only nakshatra mention-
ed by name in dates in the Gupta era,
is Rôhiṇî, in one of the Nêpâl inscrip-
tions . . . . . . . 95, 182
Nâlanda, or Nâlandâ, an ancient Buddhist
site in Bihâr; an apparent mention of
it . . . . . . . 210
namas, 'reverence,' an invocation con-
nected with the names of gods, &c., at
the commencement of inscriptions; it
usually governs a dative case, 96, 104,
108, 115, 259; — but there are instances
in which it is used with the genitive 46 n., 47
names, proper, the abbreviation of, 8 n.; —
the only available instance of varia-
tion in the first and distinctive part of
a king's name, 183; — special termina-
tions of proper names in this series
of records; and in the Nêpâl inscrip-
tions, as far as the contents of them
are quoted: —
âditya; with Bâla, Dharma, Krama,
Mahêndra, Prakâṭa, Śîla, Vikrama.
âḍhya; with Dêva.
aṅka; with Vikrâma.
arka; with Bhaṭa, Udyôta.
ârya; with Bappa, Bhôjakadêva, Dêva,
Dêvaśarman, Dharma, Gaṇa, Hariśar-
man, Îśvaraśarman, Jyêshṭhaśarman,
Kâṇḍa, Kumâraśarman, Magha,
Mahêśvara Mâtṛi, Mâtṛiśarman, Nan-
dana, Rêvatîśarman, Rôha, Rudra,
Rudraśarman, Śarman, Skanda,
Sôma, Sômaśarman, Svâmidêva,
Svâtiśarman, Varaśarman.
âryâ; with Bhadra.
bala; with Gôśûrasiṁha, Hari, Indra,
Vishṇu.
bhaṭa; with Dêra, Dhrû, Dhruva, Hari,
Pulinda, Skanda, Vishṇu.
bhaṭṭa; with Nâga.
bhaṭṭâ; with Jaya.
bhaṭṭaka; with Tila.
bhaṭṭî; with Vatsa.
bhûti; with Dhruva, Rudra.
bôja (see 31 n.); with Raṅka.
chandra; with Râma, Suraśmi