History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s2.57
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c17.s2.57
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¹ As we have already seen in our section on the Chuṭus (§ 161), Śiva was merely honorific. The repetition of the word Vishnu in the family is probably connected with the name of Vishnu Vriddha, one of the early ancestors [Bhāradvājas] whom the Vākāṭakas specifically mention. Otherwise it would be unexplained, the family being pronouncedly Śaiva.