Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions

Tej Ram Sharma

Concept Publishing Company Delhi, 1978

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Contents

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• Cover page

• Foreword ... vii

• Preface ...xiii

• Coded Abbreviations ...xvii

• Code of Inscriptions ...xxiii

• Transliteration Table ...xxvii

Part One - Personal Names

• Prologue ...3

• Names of the Gupta Kings and Queens ...14

• Names of Feudatory Kings and High Officers ...38

• Names of Local Officers ...56

• Names of Householders and Traders ...71

• Names of Brahmanas ; Jainas and Bauddhas ...87

• Epic and Puranic Names ...96

• Names of Women ...103

• Conclusion I ...106

Part two - Names Of The Tribes

• Prologue II ...121

• Tribes ...125

• Conclusion II ...176

Part three - Names of Places, Rivers & Mountains

• Prologue III ...203

• Place-Names and their Suffixes ...209

• Names of the Rivers and the Mountains ...293

• Conclusion III ...305

Appendices

• I A Note on the King Candra of the Meharaull Iron Pillar Inscription ...309
• II A Note on the Name of the Mother of Budhagupta and Narasirhhagupta ...314
• III Explanation of the Passage "Paistapuraka-Mahendragiri-kautturaka-svamidatta" ...316
• IV Explanation of the Expression "Daivaputrasahisahanusahi" ...318
• V The Rivers of Junagarh ...321
• Bibliography ...324
• List of Plates ...360
• Index ...361

Maps and Plates

• India in the Gupta age ...xxviii
• The Rivers of Junagarh ...322
• Plates Facing page ...360

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