The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c32.s1.14

v2.c32.s1.14

This inscription gives us six generations of Cāhamānas who appear to have resided in the region of Broach. By assigning a period of 30 years for each generation Konow arrived at *c.* 500 A.D. as the date of Maheśvaradāma.⁴ Noticing the occurrence of names which were common to the Maitrakas of Valabhī⁵ and the occurrence of the epithet *Vālabhya* (from Valabhī ?)` before the name of the writer of the grant, he also suspected intimate contact between the two families.⁶ But the most striking feature of these princes' names is certainly the ending *-dāma* in three of them, which is likewise found in the names of several descendants of the Western Kṣatrapa Caṣṭana. In the opinion of Rapson, it may well be a Sanskritised form of a Persian word.⁷