History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.240

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महासीमन्त—Great chieftain. The Yādavas of Seṇḍinagara (vide E. I. II p. 217 of śake 922, I. A. 17 p. 120 of śake 948) and the Raṭṭas of Saundatti were often so styled (Bombay Gazetteer vol. 21 p. 354). The Valabhī king Dhruvasena is called mahārāja and mahāsāmanta in E. I. XI p. 107 (in Gupta year 206) and E. I. XV at 256 (in Gupta Year 210) and E. I. XIX p. 302 and p. 304. The word occurs in the Banskhera plate of Harṣa in his 22nd year i. e. about 628-29 A. D. (E. I. IV p. 208, at p. 211) and in the Madhuban plate of the 25th year of Harṣa's reign (E. I. vol. I pp. 63, 67). Vide also Bhagalpur plate of Nārāyaṇapāla (I. A. vol. 15 pp. 304, 306), Rāṣṭrakūṭa grant of śake 679 (JBBRAS. vol. 16 pp. 105, 108), E. I. XV p. 85 in śake 981 (where one Nāgadeva is both mahāsāmantādhipati and daṇḍanāyaka of Someśvara I), E. I. vol. II p. 309 (Benares plate of Karṇadeva).