Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c22.s5.5

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² In a Nālandā Stone Inscription (*Ep. Ind.*, XX, 43-45) Bālāditya is described as a king of irresistible valour and vanquisher of all foes. The last of the Bālādityas mentioned in a Sārnāth Inscription (Fleet, *CII*, 285 f.) had a son named Prakaṭāditya by his wife Dhavalā. In the *Ārya-Mañjuśrī-mūla-kalpa* (ed. G. Śāstrī, p. 637 ff.) Pakārākhya (Prakaṭāditya) is represented as the son of Bhakārākhya (Bhānu Gupta). Buddhist tradition thus corroborates the identification, first proposed in these pages, of Bālāditya with Bhānu Gupta. *Cf.* now Jayaswal, *An Imperial History of India*, pp. 47, 53. An inscription found at Guṇāighara near Comilla and certain seals at Nālandā disclose the existence of a king named (Vai)nya Gu(pta) who ruled in or about A. D. 507 and must have been also a contemporary of Mihirakula or of his father (*Prabāsī*, 1338, 675; IHQ, 1930, 53, 561). The seals give him the style *Mahārājādhirāja* (*ASI*, *AR*, 1930-34, Pt. I, 230, 249; *MASI*, 66, 67; *IHQ*, XIX, 275) and suggest relationship with the imperial Guptas. Dr D. C. Ganguly identifies him with the *Dvādaśāditya* of coins (*IHQ*, 1933, 784, 989). But owing to damaged condition of the Nālandā seal his parentage cannot be ascertained.