The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.5

v1.c17.s1.5

The inscription of these princes are all issued from Śrīpura (modern Sirpur, Raipur district, C.P.). Their seal bears the figure of a *Garuda* and the epithet ‘lord of Kosala’ (*Kosalādhipati*). The inscriptions contain no dates, but Fleet agreed with Kielhorn that on palaeographic evidence they must be referred to about the 8th or the 9th centuries A.D.¹ It was Cunningham who first suggested that Mahāśivagupta Bālārjuna the last prince of this line should be identified with Śivagupta, the first prince of a dynasty of rulers whose inscriptions were discovered in the Sambalpur tract of Orissa.² The inscriptions of these kings give use the following list of princes:—