Ancient History of the Deccan c6.s1.37

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The Balaghat plates (Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, page 268) say that Narêndrasêna was the grandson of Prabhâvati-Guptâ and that he married the daughter of the king of Kuṇṭala named Ajjhitabhaṭṭarikâ. When did this marriage take place? We have admitted with Mr. Vincent A. Smith (J. R. A. S., April 1914, page 326) that the marriage of Rudrasêna II with the daughter of Chandra-Gupta II, the queen Prabhâvati-Gupta, took place about 395 A. D.; we may suppose that the marriage of their grandson took place 50 years later. So the marriage of the prince Gupta-Vâkâṭaka with the daughter of the king of Kuṇṭala must be placed about 445 A. D. We have said above that it is certain that the Kuṇṭala kingdom was no other than the kingdom of the Kadambas (see Ep. Ind., Vol. XIII, page 299, verses 58—62). We may therefore put the question: who was the Kadamba king that reigned in 445 and gave his daugter in marriage to the Gupta-Vâkâṭaka king? In our chronology Kâkusthavarman is shown to have reigned from 425 to 450 and it is quite possible that in 445 he had a daughter of marriageable age: and the celebrated inscription of Tâlguṇḍa which contains the eulogy of Kâkusthavarman and is writhen in the "box-headed" alphabet says that Kâkusthavarman gave his daughters in marriage to the Guptas and other kings.