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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; INDEX. 347
Vôṭa-santika, an ancient division in the
territory of the Mahârâjas of Uchcha-
kalpa . . . . . . . . 132
Vṛishadêva (Lichchhavi of Nêpâl) 136; 189, 191
Vyâghra, Mahârâja (of Uchchakalpa),
119, 123, 128, 131, 138; his wife
was Ajjhitadêvî . . 119, 123, 128, 131, 138
Vyâghra, another name of Rudrasôma 27 n., 67
Vyâghradêva, a feudatory of Prithivîshêṇa 235
Vyâghrapallikâ, an ancient village in the
Maninâga-pêṭha . . . . . 138
[V]yâghrarâja, of Mahâkântâra, a king in
Southern India, conquered by Samudra-
gupta . . . . . . . . 13
Vyâghrarâta, a Varika chief . . . 254
Vyâsa, an ancient sage, 195, 200, 242, 249,
299; — mentioned as the son of Parâ-
śara, 139; — as the arranger of the
Vêdas, 98 and n., 99, 105, 109, 116, 124,
129, 134, 139, 171, 190; — and as the
author of certain verses allotted to the
Mahâbhârata . . . 120, 124, 129, 134, 139
Walâ, a village in Kâṭhiâwâḍ; mentioned
under the ancient name of Valabhî . 165, 167
water-lily-emblem on the seals of
grants . . . . . . . 191, 196
Watson, Colonel J. W.; a tradition of the
bards of Kâṭhiâwâḍ, supposed to have
an important bearing on the question
of the Gupta era, brought to notice by
him, 49; — but it is of quite recent
origin, and of no value whatever . . 50
week-days (see also days of the week);
the Hindu term for a week-day is vâra,
146; — it is reckoned by the Hindus
from sunrise to sunrise, 146, 147; —
consequently, the English and Hindu
week-days are not identical for a
period of 57 minutes, 8 seconds, at the
end of the Hindu week-day, when, by
the English reckoning, the following
week-day has already commenced;
and thus, as for all ordinary purposes
the week-day of a tithi is the week-day
on which that tithi ends, there may, in
certain instances, be a nominal discre-
pancy between the resulting English
and Hindu week-days, 156 n.; — a me-
thod of calculating the week-days of
tithis, with Prof. K. L. Chhatre's
Tables . . . . . . . 145 to 158
wheel-emblem . . . . . 219, 263, 269
Wright, Prof. W.: his rendering of Albê-
rûnî's statements regarding the Gupta
and other eras . . . . . . 27
yad atra puṇyam &c., a formula in cer-
tain donative inscriptions . . . 263,
272, 274, 279, 280, 282
Yajñavarman, a Maukharî chief . . 225, 227
Yama, the god of the dead, and the dealer
of death, mentioned under the names
of Antaka, 14, 21, 28, 44, 51, 54, 257;
— Kṛitânta, 28, 44, 51, 54, 157, 257;
— and Kâla or Death . . . 223
Yamunâ, the river, the modern Jamnâ;
mentioned under the name of Kâlindî 89, 90
Yaśastrâta, a proper name, 270; — an-
other person of the same name . . 271
Yaśôdharman, a king of Northern India,
13, 145, 148, 150, 151, 155; — the ex-
tent of his kingdom, 148; — men-
tioned as conquering lands which not
even the Guptas and the Hûṇas could
subdue, 148; — he had worship done to
him by Mihirakula, 148, 150; — his dup-
licate pillar inscriptions at Mandasôr,
142, 149; — his Mandasôr inscription
of the Mâlava year 589 . . . 150
Yaśômatt, wife of Prabhâkaravardhana . 232
Yaśôrâta, a Varika chief . . . . 254
Yaśôvardhana, a Varika chief . . . 254
Yaśôvihâra, an ancient monastery at
Mathurâ . . . . . . . 274
Yaudhêya, a tribe, conquered by Samudra-
gupta, 14; — the fragmentary inscrip-
tion of a leader of this tribe at Bijaya-
gaḍh . . . . . . . . 251
Yazdajird, a Sassanian king of Persia;
there is an era, dating from his acces-
sion in A.D. 632, of which the four-
hundredth year is used by Albêrûnî as
a guage-year for the comparison of
dates . . . . . . 24 and n., 30
year (see also samvatsara and varsha);
years of jupiter's Twelve-Year Cycle
denoted by the word samvatsara, 104,
110, 114, 117, 119, 95, 102, 107, 111,
114; — years of eras denoted by the
words abda, 104, 110, 114, 117, 83, 95,
102, 107, 114; — samâ, 97; — samvat-
sara, 25, 37, 38, 40, 41, 43, 60, 70, 92,
119, 123, 128, 134, 137, 180, 210 263,
298, 273; — varsha, 81, 61, 67, 89, 259;
— and vatsara, 75, 83; — regnal years
denoted by the words abda, 162; —
samvatsara, 194, 199, 240, 246, 296; —
and varsha, 159; — the length of the
tropical year is 365 days, 14 ghaṭîs,
31.972 palas, 146; — of the same, ac-
cording to the Sûrya-Siddhânta, is 365
days, 15 ghaṭîs, 31.523 palas, 146; — of
the Twelve-Year Cycle of Jupiter by the
heliacal-rising system, is roughly 400
days, 162; — and of the Twelve-Year
and the Sixty-Year Cycles by the
mean-sign system, is 361 days, 1 ghaṭî,
36 palas . . . . . . . 170
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