Fwd: [Ind-Arch] Gupta era relics found in Dinajpur

October 26, 2008

While I anticipate YM's reply at the earliest, we may remember that there is a pillar inscription that says King " Chandra " has conquered Bengal. Kishore patnaik On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Katherine Brobeck <sivadasi wrote:

Dear Yashwant,

Why isn't that possible? Didn't the Guptas extend

that far East?

Please explain.

[remember me? K. Brobeck, emails from years ago --

-hope you are well, you taught me many things. I'll

work up all my Jaina questions for you if that's OK]

October 26, 2008

Dear Yashwant,

Why isn't that possible? Didn't the Guptas extend

that far East?

Please explain.While I anticipate YM's reply at the earliest, we may remember the iron pillar inscription (at Mehrauli) that says King " Chandra " has conquered Bengal.

" The pillar bears an inscription in Sanskrit which states that it was erected as a standard in honour of Lord Vishnu. It also praises the valor and qualities of a king referred to simply as Chandra, who has been identified with the Gupta King Chandragupta II Vikramaditya (375-413). The inscription reads (in the translation given in the tablets erected by Pandit Banke Rai in 1903):

He, on whose arm fame was inscribed by the sword, when, in battle in

the Vanga countries (Bângal), he kneaded (and turned) back with (his)

breast the enemies who, uniting together, came against (him);-he, by

whom, having crossed in warfare the seven mouths of the (river) Sindhu,

the Vâhlikas were conquered;-he, by the breezes of whose prowess the

southern ocean is even still perfumed;- (Line 3.)-He, the remnant of

the great zeal of whose energy, which utterly destroyed (his) enemies,

like (the remnant of the great glowing heat) of a burned-out fire in a

great forest, even now leaves not the earth; though he, the king, as if

wearied, has quit this earth, and has gone to the other world, moving

in (bodily) from to the land (of paradise) won by (the merit of his)

actions, (but) remaining on (this) earth by (the memory of his) fame;-

(L. 5.)-By him, the king,-who attained sole supreme sovereignty in the

world, acquired by his own arm and (enjoyed) for a very long time;

(and) who, having the name of Chandra, carried a beauty of countenance

like (the beauty of) the full-moon,-having in faith fixed his mind upon

(the god) Vishnu, this lofty standard of the divine Vishnu was set up

on the hill (called) Vishnupada. " [unquote]However, for a discussion on who could be this Chandra, please see : http://tinyurl.com/6e4r3n

regards, Kishore patnaik