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THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS ; INDEX. 333
Pinâkin, the god Śiva, as 'having the bow
called Pinâka' . . . . . 154
Piśhtapura, a town in Southern India, the
modern Piṭṭâpuram, 7 n., 13, 113 n. ;—
in the time of Samudragupta, its king
was Mahêndra . . . . 13
Piśhtapurî, or Piśhtapurikâdêvî, a form,
at Mânapura, of the goddess Lakshmî
113 and n., 116, 132, 138
Piṭṭâpuram, a town in the Gôdâvarî Dis-
trict, mentioned under the ancient
Sanskrit name of Piśhtapura 7 n., 13, 113 n.
posthumous inscriptions . . . 1, 91, 139
Prabâlikâ, wife of Varuṇasêna . . 290
Prabhâkaravardhana, a king of Kanauj,
or more properly of Thâṇêsar, 232 ;—
his wife was Yaśômattî, 232 ;— his father
was the Mahârâja Âdityavardhana,
232 ;— and not Pushpabhûti or
Pushyabhûti, or Śîlâditya of Mâlava . 15
Prabhañjana, Mahârâja (Parivrâjaka) 97,
104, 109, 115
Prabhâvatiguptâ, daughter of Dêvagupta,
and wife of Rudrasêna II. . . 15, 240, 247
Prakaṭâditya, a king of Kâśî, 286 ;— his
Sârnâth inscription . . . 284
Prâkṛit language, an epigraphical men-
tion of the . . . . . 157
Prâkṛit names and words :—
ajjaka . . . . . . 187 n.
Ajjhita . . 119 and n., 123, 128, 131, 138
bappa . . . . . . 186 n.
bâva . . . . . . 186 n.
boppa . . . . . . 188 n.
ijjâ . . . . . . 217 and n.
phuṭṭa . . . . 121, 125, 130
santaka . . . 118 n., 241 and n., 248
uchchhanna . . . . . 255
praṇâlî, 'a conduit' . . . . 180
Prârjuna, a tribe, conquered by Samudra-
gupta . . . . . . 14
praśasti, 'an eulogy,' a technical term
for an inscription on stone, 87 n., 201,
208, 286 ;— an exceptional instance in
which this term is used to denote a
copper-plate charter . . . . 87 n.
Pretinartaka, an official or family title,
perhaps meaning 'a herald' . 190 and n.
pratôlî, 'a gateway with a flight of
steps' . . . . . 43 and n., 45
pratyaya, pratyâya, 'a holding' . 170 and n.
Pravaragiri, the ancient Sanskrit name of
the Barâbar Hill . . . 222, 223
Pravarapura, the city from which Pravara-
sêna II. issued his Chammak grant . 240
Pravarasêna I., Mahârâja (Vâkâṭaka) 241, 248
Pravarasêna II., Mahârâja (Vâkâṭaka),
240, 247 ;— his Chammak grant, 235 ;
— his Siwanî grant . . . . 243
Prayâga, an ancient name of Allahâbâd . 206
Prinsep, Mr. James ; his rendering of the
date in the Kahâum pillar inscription
of Skandagupta, from which originated
the idea of an era dating from the
extinction of the Gupta sovereignty . 35
Pṛithivîshêṇa, Mahârâja (Vâkâṭaka), 235,
240, 248 ;— his Nachnê-kî-talâî inscrip-
tions . . . . . . 233
pṛithivyâm=a-pratiratha (compare sva-
yam=a-pratiratha, applied to Chandra-
gupta II.), an epithet of Samudragupta,
14, 27, 44, 51, 54, 257 ;— used parti-
ally on his coins, 14 n. ;— applied also
to Vijayarâja (Chalukya of Gujarât) . 14 n.
Pṛithu, an epic king . . . . 20
Pṛîti, 'affection,' one of the wives of the
god Kâmadêva . . . . 85
prose, inscriptions which are entirely
in . . . . . 21, 25, 29,
36, 39, 40, 45, 110, 208, 211, 213, 219,
231, 251, 252, 254, 260, 264, 266,
267, 269, 271, 272, 273, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282
Pulikêśin II. (Western Chalukya) ; ex-
amination of the date of his Haidarâbâd
grant of the Śaka year 534 expired,
which proves that, up to A.D. 612, the
Pûrṇimânta arrangement of the lunar
fortnights was used with the Śaka
years, even in Southern India . . 79 n.
Pulindabhaṭa, a grantee . . . 138
puṇḍarîka, a particular sacrifice . . 254
puraka, 'a city ;' this word is not justi-
fied by the only instance that is quoted
for it . . . . . . 69 n.
pûraka, as a termination of names of vil-
lages, in Brahmapûraka, Kollapûraka,
and Vaṭapûraka . . . . 248
Puraṁdara, the god Indra, as 'the de-
stroyer of cities' . . . . 286
Pûrṇimânta, the technical name for the
scheme of the lunar months in
Northern India, according to which
arrangement the months end with the
full-moon day, and the dark fortnights
precede the bright, 70 ;— in astronomi-
cal works, however, it is always the
Amânta arrangement that is actually
taken for calculations, 148 n. ;— even
in Southern India, the Pûrṇimânta
arrangement was used with the Śaka
years, for the civil reckoning, up to
between A.D. 804 and 866, . . 79 n. ;—
on the other hand, even in Northern
India, it was not used with the Nêwâr
era in Nêpâl, 75 ;— but it was adopted
there, when the Nêwâr era was follow-
ed by the Vikrama era in its northern
variety . . . . . 76
Pûrvarâshṭra, the Eastern Country, sub-
ject to Jayarâja and Sudêvarâja . 192
and n., 195, 199
Pushpabhûti, or Pushyabhûti, a king men-
tioned by Bâṇa in the Harshacharita,
in connection with the family of Har-
shavardhana of Kanauj ; he has been
wrongly assumed to be the father of
Prabhâkaravardhana . . . . 15