Indian Epigraphy c15.t19.17

c15.t19.17

The above conclusion is supported by the two Baud plates of Pṛthvī-mahādevī alias Tribhuvana-mahādevī II, dated in the year 158.² The inscriptions show that this Bhauma-Kara queen was the daughter of king Svabhātuṅga of the Somavaṁśa of Kosala (South Kosala). The same Somavaṁśī king is mentioned in the Balangir Museum plates of Mahāśivagupta Yayāti I (c. 970-1000 A.D.),³ which suggest that the said king enjoyed the additional name Svabhātuṅga. The Bhauma-Kara queen Pṛthvī-mahādevī alias Tribhuvana-mahādevī II ruling in the year 158 of the Bhauma-Kara era was thus the daughter of the Somavaṁśī king Mahāśivagupta Yayāti I Svabhātuṅga of South Kosala and flourished about the end of the tenth century A.D. Supposing that the queen was ruling more or less contemporaneously with her father, the beginning of the Bhauma-Kara era may be assingned roughly to the first half of the ninth century A.D.