Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and their Successors

Reihapcis reno..-ing ot Examination of the p7ii:vious ' TablI I.— ( tiaaOke04 1 1* 4kings +Val ib hi The MandasOr Inscrii.on-walrev474'" vats9k The Determination of 4.1.4-j Of The Scheme of the GuirtaN'ai Table I I _ The Calculation of ReOonlea The tran Inscription if 0 - year' The Verawal Inscription Of. t The Verawal Inscription of.Vilibht-$4144H-921. [...] And with Lhe special sanction of the Secretary of State for India in 1832 I was selected for the newly-created post of Epigraphist to the Governmer of India with the primary duty of preparing the volume ghat was to contain the Inscriptions of the EaNy Gupta Kings. [...] 3 the 'date of Mihirakula —who as we learn from the writings of the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsiang played a most leading and important part in early Indian history —to furnish tha means of adjusting the chronology before and after him of the early history of Kamir as recorded in the RtijataranThzi and also of testing the accuracy of the Chinese accounts of -the same early period. [...] The second point tc which he has given his attention is the elucidation of the system of the Twelve-year Cyclf of Jupiter the years of which form so important a part in some of the records of the Early Gupta period. [...] They are the rcords of a feudatory family to the members of which it is convenient to give the name of the Parivrajaka Mah'arajas.1 And the extreme importance of them lies in the fact that they expressly show that though the direct line of the Early Gupta dynasty itself may have become extinct the Gupta dominion still continued and the name cf —the Gupta kings Was still recognised as a pow