Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s6.57

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He placed the inscription in the second century A. D., and supported the Yaksha theory propounded by Cunningham and upheld by Mr. Chanda. He did not agree with those scholars who concluded that the statue was a portrait of a Saiśunāga sovereign simply because there were some letters in the inscription under discussion which might be construed as a name of a Saiśunāga king. Referring to Dr. Jayaswal's suggestion that the form *Vaṭa Naṁdi* was composed of two variant proper names (Vartivardhana and Naṁdivardhana)—he said that Chandragupta II was also known as Devagupta, and Vigrahapāla had a second name Sūrapāla ; but who had ever heard of compound names like Chandra-Deva, or Deva-Chandra, and Sūra-Vigraha or Vigraha-Sūra ? (*Ind. Ant.*, 1919).