Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c26.34

c26.34

² Watters, *Yuan Chwang*, ii. 250. This family may have been connected with the viceregal line of Naigamas mentioned in the Mandasor Inscription of the Mālava year 589, of the time of Yaśodharman and Vishṇuvardhana. Abhayadatta of this family was the viceroy (*Rājasthānīya*, *Sachiva*) of a district bounded by the Vindhya, the Pāriyātra (Western Vindhyas including the Aravali range) and the Sindhu (the sea or a Central Indian stream bearing the same name). His nephew is called a nṛipati (king). Daksha, the young brother of the ruler, excavated a well in the year 589 (=A. D. 533-34).