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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; INDEX. 345
pâla, for the heliacal-rising system of
the Twelve-Year Cycle of Jupiter . . 170
Vâsu, Grâmika . . . . . . . 112
Vasudatta, a proper name . . . . 271
Vasudêva, the father of Vishṇu in his
incarnation as Kṛishṇa . . . . 206
Vâsudêva, the god Vishṇu, as Kṛishṇa,
'the son of Vasudêva' . . . 115 286
Vâsula, the composer of the Mandasôr
pillar inscriptions of Yaśôdharman . 148
Vasuntarashaṇḍika, an ancient village
in Baghelkhaṇḍ . . . . . 97
vâṭa, a fiscal term, requiring explana-
tion . . . . . 170 and n., 189
Vaṭapûraka, an ancient village in the
Beṇṇâkârpara bhâga . . . . 248
Vatsabhaṭṭi, composer of the Mandasôr
inscription of the Mâlava year 529 . . 88
Vatsadêvî, daughter of the Maukhari
Bhôgavarman, daughter's daughter of
Âdityasêna of Magadha, and wife of
Śivadêva II. of Nêpâl . . . * 184, 187
Vêdas (see also śâkhâ), the earliest sacred
books of the Hindus; mentioned as
arranged by Vyâsa, 98 and n., 105, 109,
116, 124, 129, 134, 139, 171, 190; —
mentioned as three in number, under
the term trayî, 189; — indicated as four
in number by the word Chaturvêdin,
71, 190, 242; — the only Vêda men-
tioned by name in this series of
records, is the Atharva-Vêda . . 290
Vêdhas, the god Brahman, as 'the creator' 156
Vengî, a town or country in Southern
India; in the time of Samudragupta, its
king was Hastivarman . . . . 13
Verâwal, a town in Kâṭhiâwâḍ, the
modern representative of the, ancient
Sômnâthpâṭaṇ; mentioned under the
ancient names of Dêvapattana, 91; —
and of Sômanâthadêvapattana, or the
city of the god Sômanâtha, 85; — ex-
amination of the date of the inscription
of the Valabhî year 927, . . 90; — and
of the inscription of Arjunadêva of the
Valabhî year 945 . . . . 84
vernacular terminations, in ashtamu,
divasu, and saṁvatsaru . . 292, 296
Vibhudatta, Mahâsâṁdhivigrahika, writer
of the grant of Hastin of the (Gupta)
year 191 . . . . . . 109
Vibhuvarman, Vârtta . . . . 180
Vidhâtṛi, the god Brahman, as 'the
arranger or creator' . . 90, 160, 251
Vidura, an epic hero . . . . 156 and n.
Vidyâdhara, a class of supernatural
beings . . . . . 77, 78, 86, 205
vihâra, 'a Buddhist (and Jain) temple or
convent' . . . . 31, 32, 262, 274
Vihâra, the ancient name of the modern
Bihâr in the Paṭna District; mentioned
as 'the city of the glorious Yaśôvarman' 47 n.
Vihârasvâmin, a religious title 272 n.,
279 n., 280
Vihârasvâminî, the feminine form of
Vihârasvâmin . . . . 263 and n.
Vijayadêva, Yuvarâja, the Dûtaka of a
Nêpâl inscription of the (Harsha) year
145 . . . . . . . 183
Vijayarâja (Chalukya of Gujarât); three of
the customary epithets of Samudra-
gupta are applied to him in his Kaira
grant of the year 394 . . . 14 n.
vijñâpi, derivatives from, used in con-
nection with the making of a grant by
one person at the request, or on the
advice, of another 177 and n., 178
and n., 190, 109, 116
Vikidinna, a proper name . . . . 170
Vikrama, a biruda, or second name of
Chandragupta II.; and perhaps also of
Chandragupta I. . . . . . 18
Vikrama era; an era of western origin,
commencing in B.C. 58, though usually
represented as commencing in B.C.
57, and supposed to date from the
beginning of the reign of king Vikrama
or Vikramâditya of Ujjain; Mr. Fer-
gusson's theory was that it was in-
vented in the sixth century A.D., that
its historical starting-point was in A.D.
544, and that it was referred to the
earlier starting-point by ante-dating,
47, 55; — but the Mandasôr inscription
of the year 529 proves that it existed
before that time, under the name of
the Mâlava era, 68; — and, in Central
India, it was known by this name at
least up to the ninth century A.D.,
66 n.; — an instance of the use of this
era, with the name of Vikrama, in Cen-
tral India, in the eleventh century A.D.,
22 n.; — the name of Vikrama may have
come to be connected with it through
Chandragupta I. or II., 37 n.; — the
difference in the scheme of the south-
ern and northern Vikrama years, 70
and n., 71; — use of the word śarad,
'the autumn,' in the reckoning of this
era, 66 n., 158; — this word may be used
in the sense of 'a year' generally; but
its original meaning is that of 'the
autumn;' and the use of it with the
Vikrama era is significant, in helping
to show that the original scheme of its
years is that still used in Gujarât and
Southern India, with Kârttika śukla 1
as the initial day of each year, and with
the Amânta arrangement of the lunar
fortnights; and this reckoning of the
era was followed, in Central India,
at least up to the ninth century
A. D., 66 n.; — the statement of the
Nêpâl Vaṁśâvali, that Vikramâditya
introduced his era into Nêpâl, refers
really to the introduction of the Harsha
era, 184; — but, under the name of the
Nêwâr era, an offshoot of the Vikrama
2 We