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various Provinces, sr ng from time to time according to 
circumstances. For xample, the Gaud-ddhipa of Bana, or the 
Sasadaka of Tusk an- eae: ruled a powerful empire. It included 
besides Kie-lo-na-su-fa-la-na, Mo-kie-t’o (Magadha), and Kin-shi- 
na-k’ie-lo ( Kusinagara),! and, peo the intervening tracts of 
Tirabhikti (Tirhut) and Kaéi2 At one time his forces captured 
Kanyakubja.2 The Gatjim plate of Madhavaraja II. issued 
from Kongeda (kong-u-to of Records and Life, modern Puri and 
Gafijim) acknowledged the overlordship of Sasankaraja 4; 4; and, 
dvas were presumably under his suzerainty. he adjoining 
si at ect was very likely included in his empire, and 
ably Vanga too. It is no wonder, therefore, that the caajuis 
Haigh, althoug h he thundered to uproot the Gaudas and deputed 
his minister Bhandi against them,® could not carry out his threat 
at least for 14 years more. 
The earliest epigraphical mention of Gauda is on the Aphsad 
Frequently men pillar of the Magadha King Adityasena, 
: ead _4... Where the prasast? was composed or 
cepasenclaramete iis te grayed by the Gauda Suksma-siva.® 
The time of Adity ‘asena is approximately settled by the 
hahpur image saactntiiia dated in the Hargsa era 66 or A.D. 671.8 
Suksma-siva might have been resident either of Gauda-visaya or 
Gauda kingdom, probably of the former. The Gauda kingdom 
is ovis 3 referred to in the Katmandu inscription, dated Harsa 
(?) 153 (2758 AD.), which says that the Nepal King Jayadeva 
Paricakrakama married Rajyamati, ‘the noble descendant of 
Bhagadatta’s royal line, and daughter of Srilarsadeva, lord of 
Gauda, Odra, Kalinga, Koala and other lands.” By 
a Bhagadatta’s royal line” is meant, I suppose, ware with 
the kings of Pragjyotisa, probably through her m 
imilarly in the Prakrt poem Gauda-vaho of Vakpatiraja,® 
Gauda evidently referred to the whole kingdom, and not simply the 


Ep cathee! sr in +e Psat ae gate 
seal ab Ge gee of Rhotasgar, District 
Sha sated, Banger: a wipe inerption Sri-Mahdasémanta-saésdivka-devasya, 
pp. asi of this SaSitka, in his early reign. Fleet, Gupta Inscriptions, 
pp 
Harsa-caritam, 8th ucchasa, p. 249. Kanyakubjad = Gauda-sambhramam 
suptia Be ted bingy Pipers utrena niskasan 
Ind. VI, dated 300 Gaupt- -abie, 619-20 A.D. 
arga- crit nih ucchésa, p. 194, nir-Gaudam, besid s abusing him 
Gauda-adham 6th shee ch po 11s; 193; ee Bhandi; bhavan = 
oes kafakam = Baden. pravartatam Gaud =abhimukham, 7th ueeh., P 
5 Fleet, Gupta Titer pie p. 205, line 27 ; for Shahpur “date 
Fleet, Gupta Inscriptions, F 210, line 2. ape “5 examples of poets having 
Ga auda lineage e, Gaud-a nvaya, are 3 Gadkaune o com the Vatesvara 
Candella — of Paramirdi-deva, Ep. “tna. "iT, alt, line si and Madana, 
the Raja-guru of A te of Dhar, who composed th e Dhar prihants 
natika, Bp. Tnd., Vill, 1 tin 
B. Indraji, Ind ops 
8g. P. Pandit, Bombay Pek Series Ed., Gaidarako. Peas 

