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

344 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
paramavaishṇava) . . 23, 53, 58, 74, 89, 113, 121, 126, 268
Vaishṇavî, perhaps a name of the earth as the personification of the śakti or female energy of Vishṇu . . . 195 n.
viśvadêva, one of the five great sacrificial rites . . . . . 170, 190
vaitastika, a particular weapon; an exact explanation of the term is required . . . . . . . . 12
vâjapêya, a particular sacrifice . 241 and n., 248
Vajragrâma, an ancient village in Kâṭhiâwâḍ . . . . . 170
Vajrêśvara, a god; Mr. Bendall (Journey in Nêpâl, p. 78, note) takes the name as of the "early traces of the curious position of Hindu and Buddhist that the Tantric system brought into Nêpâl" . . . . . 181
Vâkâṭaka, a tribe or dynasty, 15, 16, 235, 240, 241, 247, 248; — it may be the name of a country also, but not in certain supposed cases, 234 n.; — it is derived from an original form vakâṭa, and is not to be identified with the modern Bhâṇḍak, 234; — the Vâkâṭaka Mahârâjas, 15, 235, 240, 241, 247, 248; — they belonged to the Vishṇuvṛiddha gôtr, 241, 248; — they intermarried with the Bhâraśivas, 241, 248; — their date is determined by the marriage of Rudrasêna II. with Prabhâvatiguptâ, daughter of Dêvagupta of Magadha . 15
Vakkhalika, a proper name . . . 290
Vakra, Amâtya . . . . 100, 105, 109
Vakravaṇa, an ancient forest, or perhaps town or village, in Baghelkhand . . 125
Valabhî, the ancient name of the modern Walâ in Kâṭhiâwâḍ, the chief city of the Kings of Valabhî and their ancestors, 167; — the meaning of the name, 23 n.; — there is no authority for the use by Reinaud and Sachau of the forms Balabha, Ballaba, and Ballabha, 23 n.; — the Kings of Valabhî, and their ancestors, 13, 167, 168, 169, 180 to 189; — their genealogy, 41; — it was through their preservation of the Gupta era that it came to acquire the name of the Valabhî era, 23, 126; — but they did not establish the era, 130; — nor can they have introduced it into Nêpâl, 134 n.; — list of the charters issued by them from Valabhî itself, 126 n.; — Hiuen Tsiang's remarks about the reigning King of Valabhî in his time . . . . . . . 40
Valabhî era; the later name of the Gupta era, due to its preservation by the Kings of Valabhî, and used by Albêrûnî in the eleventh century A.D., and in epigraphical records of the thirteenth century, 22, 23; — Albêrûnî distinctly states the absolute identity of the Valabhî era with the Gupta era . . . . . 31
Valabhî-saṁ and Valabhî-saṁvat, technical expressions, in the thirteenth century A.D., for the Gupta era under its later name of the Valabhî era . . 22, 84, 91
Valaka, apparently an ancient village in Baghelkhand . . . . . 105
Valatkaushan, an official title, requiring explanation . . . . . . 257
Vâlavî vishaya, an ancient territorial division in Bihâr . . . . . 218
valaya-yashṭi, 'a boundary-pillar' . . 112
Vâlugarta, an ancient village in Baghelkhand . . . . . . . 109
Vanga, a country, the modern Bengal or the eastern parts of it, invaded by Chandra . . . . . . 141
Vangara, an ancient village in Baghelkhand . . . . . . . 105
vâpî, vâpikâ, 'an irrigation-well' . 170, 200
vâra, a 'week-day (see also week-days), which is reckoned by the Hindus from sunrise to sunrise . . . . 146, 147
Varahadâsa, a proper name . . . 156
Varâhadinna, Bhôgika . . 124, 129, 134, 139
Varâhamihira, an astronomer; he died A.D. 587. . . 143 and n.; — his rules, in the Brihat-Saṁhitâ and the Samâsa-Saṁhitâ, for the naming of the years of the Twelve-Year Cycle of Jupiter according to the heliacal-rising system, 161, 170; — his rule, in the Brihat Saṁhitâ, for the grouping of the nakshatras for that purpose . . . . . . 162
Varâśarman, a grantee, 243; — another of the same name . . . . 243
Varaśarmârya, a grantee . . . . 243
Vardhaki, a proper name . . . 170
Varika, a tribe; mention of certain chiefs of this tribe . . . . 253, 254
varsha, 'a year;' the reason why the earlier years of Hindu eras are quoted by this term, without any dynastic appellation . . . . . . . 143
Vârtta, an official title . . . 180 and n.
Varuṇa, the god of the ocean, 14, 28, 44, 51, 54, 63, 257; — mentioned as the regent of the west, 63; — connected with the Sun in the name of Varuṇârka 215
Varuṇaśarman, a grantee . . . 105
Varuṇasêna, Mahâsâmanta and Mahârâja, 289; — his wife was Prabâlikâ . 290
Varuṇavâsin, a name of the Sun . . 218
Varuṇavishṇu, a proper name . . 90, 160
Vâruṇikâ, the ancient name of the modern Dêô-Baraṇârk . . . . 214, 215, 218
Vasantadêva, a variant of the name of Vasantasêna . . . . 183 and n., 186, 189
Vasantasêna (Lichchhavi of Nêpâl), 183, 188, 189, 191; — mentioned under the name of Vasantadêva, 186; — notice of his inscription of the (Gupta) year 435 . 183
Vasishṭha, an ancient astronomer, quoted by Ṛishiputra, and through him by Ut-