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# History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c5: Chapter IX.

History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c5

- **Language:** English

### Chapter IX.

### [c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.1)

| \*Vākāṭaka Empire\* | 82 |  
| § 70. Chandra Gupta II and the Later Vākāṭakas | 82 |  
| §§ 71-72. Vākāṭaka Imperial Period | 83 |  
| § 73. Vākāṭaka Imperial Organization | 83 |  
| § 73A. Vākāṭaka Provinces: Mekalā, etc. | 84 |  
| § 74. Mahishī and three Mitra Republics—a Mahishī coin | 85 |  
| \[F.N. on ‘Sapta-Kosalā’ or the Seven Provinces of Kosalā, | |  
| and the two Kosalas—Southern and Eastern\] | 85 |  
| § 75. Mekalā | 87 |  
| § 76. Kosalā-Mahāmegha Dynasty | 87 |  
| § 76A. Naishadha or Province of Berar | 87 |  
| § 77. Purikā and Vākāṭaka Dominions | 88 |  
| § 78. The Yādava Dynasty of Simhapura | 89 |  
| \[F.N. on their genealogy\] | 89 |

### [c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.2)

| | | PAGES |  
| § 79. | The Kushans in the Vākāṭaka Period—Hormazd II | .. | 90 |  
| § 80. | The Vākāṭakas and the Eastern Punjab | .. | 90 |  
| | \[F.N. on Chandra Gupta's Hindu Type coins\] | .. | 91 |  
| § 81. | Rajputana and Gujarat—No Satrap in Gujarat | .. | 91 |  
| § 82. | Southern history | .. | 92 |  
| | \[F.N. on title of \*Dharma-mahārājādhirāja\*\] | .. | 93 |  
| § 83. | Need for an All-India Empire | .. | 93 |  
| § 84. | The achievements of the Vākāṭakas | .. | 94 |  
| | \[F.N. on the ‘\*Muruṇḍa Dynasty\*’\] | .. | 94 |  
| § 85. | Three great Vākāṭaka contributions : All-India Imperial | | |  
| | Idea ; Revival of Sanskrit ; Social Revival | .. | 95 |  
| § 86. | Revival of Art | .. | 96 |  
| | \[F.N. on Gaṅgā and Yamunā motifs and their political | | |  
| | import\] .. | .. | 96 |  
| § 87. | Vākāṭaka coinage | .. | 97 |  
| § 88. | Vākāṭaka Administration | .. | 98 |  
| § 89. | Subordinates to the Vākāṭaka Empire, their official title | .. | 98 |  
| § 90. | Religious Faith of their Period and Sacred remains | .. | 98 |

### [c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.3)

CHAPTER X.

### [c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.4)

\*Appendix on the Later Vākāṭaka Period (A.D. 348-550) and the\* \*Vākāṭaka Era (A.D. 248-249)\* | .. | 99 |

### [c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.5)

| § 91. | Pravarasena II and Narendrasena | .. | 99 |  
| § 92. | Trial for Narendrasena | .. | 101 |  
| | \[F.N. on Trikuṭa and Aparānta\] .. | .. | 101 |  
| § 93. | Prithivisheṇa II and Devasena | .. | 102 |  
| § 94. | Harisheṇa | .. | 103 |  
| § 95. | Extent of the second Vākāṭaka Empire | .. | 103 |  
| § 96. | Its Western suzerainty | .. | 104 |  
| § 97. | Prosperity and Art under the Later Vākāṭakas | .. | 104 |  
| | \[F.N. on ‘Maurya polish’ at Ajaṇṭā, etc. .. | .. | 105 |  
| § 98. | Ajaṇṭā Paintings | .. | 105 |  
| § 99. | Pallava motifs at Ajaṇṭā | .. | 106 |  
| § 100. | Ajaṇṭā not Guptan but Vākāṭakan | .. | 106 |  
| § 100A. | Religious toleration of the Later Vākāṭakas | .. | 106 |  
| § 101. | Vākāṭaka horse | .. | 106 |  
| § 101A. | End of the Vākāṭakas, c. 550 A.D. | .. | 106 |  
| | And the rise of the Chālukyas | .. | 107 |  
| \*The Era of 248 A.D.\* | .. | 108 |  
| § 102. | Dates on Vākāṭaka coins | .. | 108 |  
| § 103. | Giñjā Inscription | .. | 108 |  
| § 104. | The Gupta Era and the Vākāṭakas | .. | 109 |  
| § 105. | The Era of 248 A.D. and opinion of scholars thereon | .. | 109 |

### [c5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.6)

§ 106. The use of the Era by the Traikūṭakas, feudatories of the Vākāṭakas .. .. 110 § 107. Facts establishing the identity of the Era as a Vākāṭaka-Chedi Era .. 110 § 108. ,, ,, ,, ,, 111 \[F.N. on the dates of Jayanātha, Mahārāja of Uchchakalpa\] 111

### [c5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.7)

PART III.

### [c5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.jayaswal-1933.c5.8)

Magadha (31 B.C. to 340 A.D.) and the Gupta India at 350 A.D. .. .. 112

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