History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s4.3

c15.s4.3

¹ The Bālāghāṭ plates are merely a draft kept ready to engrave on the blank plates an order of a land-grant when made. It therefore has no gift, no donee, no date, no endorsement of registration (like 'dṛiṣṭam') and no seal cut. Kielhorn under a mistaken notion of the date of the Deva Gupta of the Vākāṭaka plates, who was taken to be a later Gupta as proposed by Fleet, dated this as well as the Dudia plates of Pravarasena II wrongly in the 8th century (E.I., IX, 270, 269; E.I., III, 260). Bühler's dating proved to be correct.