Impact of Vedic Culture on Society
by Kaushik Acharya | 2020 | 120,081 words
This page relates ‘Mingling of Cultures (B): The Sharabhapuras’ of the study on the Impact of Vedic Culture on Society as Reflected in Select Sanskrit Inscriptions found in Northern India (4th Century CE to 12th Century CE). These pages discuss the ancient Indian tradition of Dana (making gifts, donation). They further study the migration, rituals and religious activities of Brahmanas and reveal how kings of northern India granted lands for the purpose of austerities and Vedic education.
Mingling of Cultures (B): The Śarabhapuras
In Pipardulā Plates of Naréndra (c. 485 CE)[1] issued by the King Narendra of Śarabhapura dynasty records a Village grant made by Rahudeva and endorsed by Narendra to Brāhmaṇa Svāmippa of Vājasaneya branch. The gift gives the donee the right to collect revenue from the villagers. All the Śarabhapuriya kings were devotees of lord Viṣṇu. However, they worshipped Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva, an incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu as the supreme deity. Like the imperial Gupta s, they adopted the Vaiṣṇavite epithet ParamaBhāgavata in their inscriptions.[2]
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[1]:
USVAE, vol. III, no. 162.