History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c21.s2.8
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c21.s2.8
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c21.s2.8
According to the Vākāṭaka inscriptions, Gautamīputra was the son of Pravarasena I and father of Rudrasena I, and in the Vākāṭaka plates he bears the same appellation Gautamīputra (without any personal name) as here. He seems to have been a Mahārāja (governor) under his father who was Mahārājādhirāja. The letters are consciously moulded with the aim of perfect symmetry, and the forms adopted are all square which makes the scribe adopt some archaic forms (e.g. of ha and ma). They are slightly later than the letters of the seal No. 29 in their general tendency in spite of the older forms.²