Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c25.6

c25.6

(i) In the Dêô-Baraṇārk Inscription of Jīvita Gupta II, which records the continuance of the grant of a village³ in South Bihar, we have reference to Bālāditya-deva, and after him, to the Maukharis Sarva-varman and Avanti-varman. Not a word is said about their later Gupta contemporaries in connection with the previous grants of the village. The inscription is no doubt damaged, but the sovereignty of Sarva-varman and Avanti-varman undoubtedly precludes the possibility of the direct rule of their contemporaries of the later Gupta line.