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

340 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
131, perhaps of his time, 260; — a
Mathurâ image inscription of the year
135, of his time, 262; — a Kôsam image
inscription of the year 139, of his
time, 266; — a Gaḍhwâ inscription of
the year 148, perhaps of his time . 267
Skandaguptabaṭa, apparently the name
of an ancient village in Bihâr . . 51
Skandanâga, a grantee . . . 128
Skandârya, a grantee, 243; — another of
the same name . . . . 243
skandhâvâra, 'a camp,' in jaya-skandhâ-
vâra . . . . . 217, 257
Smara, the god Kâmadêva, as 'he who
excites memory' . . . . 85, 158,
169, 181, 223, 225, 278
snake emblem on seals . . . . 283
Sômanâthadêvapattana, or the city of the
god Sômanâtha (Śiva), an ancient
name of the modern Verâwal . 85
Sômârya, a grantee . . . . 243
Sômaśarmârya, a grantee . . . 243
Sômatrâta, a proper name . . . 270
Sômila, a proper name . . . 67
Sônpat, a town in the Dehli District; the
seal of Harshavardhana of Kanauj, or
more properly of Thâṇêsar . . 231
sovereigns, paramount, titles of; i.e. of
sovereigns supreme in their own domi-
nions, but not necessarily reigning over
the whole of India . . . . 10 n.
spashṭa, an astronomical term, to be
translated by 'apparent' . . 145 n.
spashṭa-tithi, 'an apparent tithi;' the
method of determining it from the
mean tithi . . . . . 154
spurious inscription, an instance of a . . 255
Śramaṇa, 'a Buddhist (and Jain)
ascetic' . . . . . 32, 277
śrêṇî, 'a corporation or guild' . 71, 85, 86, 87
śrî, an honorific prefix to names, rendered
in the case of paramount sovereigns
and their wives by 'glorious,' of feuda-
tories and other ordinary persons by
'illustrious,' of priests, teachers, &c,
by 'saintly,' of gods by 'holy,' and of
towns, &c., by 'famous;' generally śrî
is used before consonants and śrîmat
before vowels, but there are exceptions
to this . . . . . . 10 n
Śrî, the goddess Lakshmî . . 164, 206, 205
Śrîgupta, an early Mahârâja mentioned
by I-tsing; he is not to be identified
with the Mahârâja Gupta (Early
Gupta) . . . . . . 8 n.
śrîmat, an honorific prefix to names,
rendered in the same way as śrî; the
use of it is not confined to feudatories,
but it is applied in the case of para-
mount sovereigns also . . . . 10 n.
Śrîmatî, or Śrîmatîdêvî, wife of Mâdhava-
gupta . . . . . . 208, 217
Śrîpura, the ancient name of Śîrpur . 293, 296
Śrîsâhikâ, an ancient village in the Pûr-
varâshṭra or Eastern Country . . 199
Śrîvâpikâ, a well at Śrîsâhikâ . . 200
Sthâṇu, the god Śiva, as 'the immovable
one' . . . . . . 148
sthapati-samrâj, apparently meaning
'chief of architects' . . 120 and n., 124
Sthavira, a Buddhist priestly title . . 279
stone, inscriptions on, are usually denoted
by the term praśasti . . . 87 u.
Stûpa, the technical name of a certain
kind of Buddhist monument, 30 and
n.; — in two records the term ratna-
griha seems to be used to denote a
Stûpa, 33 and n., 34, 262; — in the
neighbourhood of Sâñchi, the popular
term for a Stûpa is bîṭâ . . . 30 n.
śu, an abbreviation of śukla or śuddha,
'the bright fortnight;' used in connec-
tion with di (see also under ba di),
91, 97, 210, 277, 291; — used by itself 93, 191
Sudarśana, a lake at Girinagara . 63, 64
Sudêvarâja, or Mahâ-Sudêvarâja, Râja
(of Śarabhapura), 199; — his Râypur
grant, 196; — reference to another
grant by him, which requires to be re-
edited . . . . . . 14
Sugata, a name of Buddha, as 'the one
who has attained a good state' . . 232 n.
Śukra, the regent of the planet Venus,
and the preceptor of the demons . 86
Sûkshmaśiva, the engraver of the Aphsaḍ
inscription of Âdityasêna . . 208
Sukuli dêśa, an ancient territorial divi-
sion in the neighbourhood of Sâñchi . 32
Sulabhaka, a proper name . . . 290
Śûlapâṇi, the god Śiva, as 'holding the
trident in his hand' . . . 147. 149, 286
Sûlisagrâma, an ancient village in the
neighbourhood of Nirmand . . . 290
Sumêru, another name of the mountain
Mêru, 86, 147; — mentioned as the
abode of Indra, 278: — and as one of
the breasts of the earth . . . 86 and n.
sun; inscriptions of sun-worship, 68, 79,
126, 161, 208, 214, 288; — sun worship
indicated elsewhere by the title para-
mâdityabhakta, 168, 232; — invoca-
tions of the Sun as a god, 71, 84, 163; —
worship of the Sun combined with that
of Vishṇu, 126; — and with that of
Śiva, 288; — ancient temples of the
Sun, at Indôr in the Bulandshahar Dis-
trict, 70; — at Mandasôr, 80; — at
Âśramaka, 126; — at Gwâlior, 162; —
and at Dêô-Baraṇârk, 218; — an image
of the Sun at Shâhpûr, 210; — the Sun
connected with Varuṇa in the name of
Varuṇârkâ, 215; — the Sun mentioned
under the name of Varuṇavâsin, 218; —
mention of the chariot and horses of
the Sun, 78, 163; — cows spoken of as
'daughters of the Sun,' 195 and n., 200,
299; — a symbol of sun-worship, or
perhaps the wheel-emblem . . 219 269