History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s2.51

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§ 183. The lines after Skandavarman II is similarly well-attested. Viṣṇugopa, one of the sons of Vijaya Skandavarman II, has left one copperplate dated in the reign of Simhavarman I. Simhavarman I would have been proved conclusively to have been the elder brother of Viṣṇugopa by the Udayendiram plates (E.I., III, 142), but unfortunately they, in my opinion, are clearly a spurious document, being written in a script of several centuries later. However, we get the same result, viz. that this Simhavarman was not the son of Viṣṇugopa but his elder brother, from Yuvarāja Viṣṇugopa’s document, and the Gaṅga copperplate (E.I., XIV, 331) where Simhavarman (I) and his son Skandavarman (III) are stated to have installed respectively two successive Gaṅga kings [§ 190]. There are also two grants by Simhavarman II, son of Viṣṇugopa, which recite the genealogy (E.I., VIII 159; E.I., XV, 254). Thus the later genealogy on the statements of Viṣṇugopa and his son and the Gaṅga plates stands thus: