Inscription number 32. Mandasor stone Inscription of Yasodharman alias Vishnuvardhana Malava (Vikrarma) year 589 (= 532 AD.) The Mandasor inscription introduces Yasodharman, as saviour of earth. Who rescued the earth from cruel kings. The inscriptions highlights the victory of Aulikara king Yashodharman over the mihirakula. The inscription records the construction of a well by Daksha in …
Inscription number 31. Mandasor stone Inscription of the time of Prabhakara – Malava (=Vikrama) year 524 (467-68 A.D.) Footnote-1 Sircar has no doubt that Prabhakara belonged to the Aulikara family of Dasapura and was a descendant of King Bandhuvarman whom we find ruling over this region, as a subordinate of Kumaragupta 1,. in the Malava …
Inscription number 30. Gangdhar stone Inscription of Visvavarman.—Malava ( Vikrama) year 480 (= 423 A.D.). This Inscription is an epigraphic record documenting the construction of a temple and an accompanying shrine for the mother goddesses or Matrkas by a king’s minister named Mayuraksaka. Provenance: Gangdhar, Jhalawar District, Rajasthan. The town occupies an old fortified and moated site …
AULIKARAS OF DASAPURA. The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India). They were an ancient India’s tribal clan from the Maurya period. They emerged as rulers between the 4th-century CE and 6th-century CE. in the Malwa region of central India near mandsaur, Western Madhya Pradesh, Southeastern Rajasthan and Northeastern Gujarat. Two …
Inscription number 26. Indore copper-plate Grant of Bhulunda – (Gupta) years 38 and 77 (357 A.D. and 396 AD.) Provenance: Most probably some place in Indore district. Script: Western variety of Brahmi of the southern class. Language: Sanskrit. References: G.S. Gai, Ep.Ind, XXXVIII, pp-243-46. An ancient dynasty of khandesh Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar had obtained …
Inscription number 25. Indore Grant of Maharaja Svamidesa -(Gupta) year 67 (=386-87 A.D.) The right of subinfeudation that is not only cultivate the land oneself but also be able to get it cultivated by someone else has been mentioned in this indore inscription. Indore occupies an important place in the ancient history of India. It …
Inscription number 24 Halsi (Kapoli) Plates of Asankita-varman (Regnal) Year 5.. Provenance: Halsi, Khan pur taluk, Belgaum district, Karnataka. Script: Southern Brahmi of 6th or 7th Century A.D. Language: Sanskrit. References: A.M. Annigeri, Ep.Ind, XXXI, pp-234-36. The charter purports to record the gift of the village of Vamsavataka situated in the tract of Sollunduraka-seventy in …
Arga Plates of Bhoja Kapali-varman. As we are aware that Goa was ruled by several dynasties over last few centuries, we must know that the port city Gopakapattana, gave the modern state Goa, its name. The name Gopakapattana had first appeared in the Panjim copper plates of Kadamba King Jayakeshi 1 (1050 to 1080 CE), …
SOUTH-WESTERN INDIA. THE BHOJAS. Goa was ruled by various sanatna dharma rulers. They were: the Bhojas, Satavahanas, Kshatrapas, Abhiras, Traikutakas of Konkan, Kalachuris, Mauryas of Konkan, Chalukyas of Badami, Shilaharas, Goa Shilaharas, Kadambas, Vijayanagara etc. King Devaraya is the earliest known ruler of the Bhoja dynasty of Chandrapur. He may be placed somewhere in the …
THE VISHNUKUNDINS. Vishnukundinas kings were followers of Hinduism and had established several institutes for Vedic learnings. They encouraged learned hindus by gifting them with developed land resources for building institutions, temples etc. Indra Bhattaraka established many schools for imparting education on Vedic literature. From the time of the accession of Madhava-Varma to the empire, vedic …