History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c16.s4.58.2

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This inscription establishes that the connection of the colonies with the Bhāraśiva and Vākāṭaka India and with the revivalism of Sanskrit in the home-land had been fully maintained. All official inscriptions in India in the second century A.D., both in the South and in the North, had been in Prakrit.³ B h a d r a v a r m a n *Fan-Hou-la'* of the Chinese] who defeated the Chinese forces [380-410 A.D.], was a contemporary of Chandra Gupta II. His father, a contemporary of Samudra Gupta, was fighting the Chinese Emperor at the time, and would have welcomed connection with the Indian Emperor. Bhadravarman's son, Gangarāja, actually retired to India to pass his days on the Ganges and then went back to Champā and ruled.¹ The connection of the Hindu king of Funan with India since 245 A.D. is also a recorded fact. The impress of the time of Samudra Gupta on the Hindu Colonies is marked in such a degree that the Allahabad inscription is necessarily to be taken seriously--as seriously as it is taken with regard to its Indian matters.