1838.] 



Ancient Inscriptions. 



967 



1 Bhatarka. 





►Sl 



o- 



^ 



o> 



o 



99 



o 



3 





3 



0- 



&* 



» 



o 



P- 



a 



Guha or Griha Sena 

 whose other name was 

 Gandharba Raja. 



3 Sridhara Sena, 



4 Siladitya or 

 *Kramaditya. 



5 Ishwara Guha, 



called by Mr. Wathbn 

 Chara Griha. 



9 Dharuva Sena III. 



or Dharmaditya. 6 Sridhara Sena II. 7 Dharuva Sena II. 



8 Sridhara Sena III. 



Now the first thing to be observed is, that the grant translated by- 

 Mr. Wathen purports to be by Sridhara Sena ; that we now present 

 is by Dharuva Sena, the sixth in succession after him; of course 

 therefore Mr. Wat hen's is the most ancient; but though there were 

 six successions to the gadi, these must have been of less than the 

 ordinary duration, for the minister who prepared the grant in Sridhara 

 Sena's reign was Skanna Bhatta ; whereas the minister who pre- 

 pared the present grant is named as Madana Hila, son of Skanna 

 Bhatta ; thirty or forty years will therefore be the probable interval 

 occupied by the reigns of all the princes, named as having intervened 

 between Sridhara Sena the first, and Dharuva Sena the third. 



Another important fact results from the date of our present grant, 

 which is clearly 365 Sumbut, and which must be the Sumbut of Vikra- 

 maditya ; corresponding with A. D. 309; but Mr. Wathen assigns to 

 Sridhara Sena, Dharuva Sena's grandfather, the date A. D. 328 or 

 384 Sumbut. He has been led to this conclusion by supposing the words 

 Jj fY T3> which he reads " Sumbut" with the figure " 9," to have reference 

 to the Valabhi sera, ascertained by Col. Todd to have commenced in 

 * Perhaps Vxkrama'ditya but the Vi is wanting in the transcripts. 

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