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Epigraphic Notes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Dines Chandra Sircar
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According to Sanskrit Lexicons the word hiraṇyagarbha has two principal meanings. First, it is a well-known epithet of Lord Brahman; secondly, it is the name of one of the ṣōḍaśa-mahādāna, i.e. the sixteen Great Gifts, which are enumerated and explained in books like the Matsya-Purāṇa, Hēmādri's Vratakhaṇḍa, and Vallālasēna's Dānasāgara. The sixteen mahādānas are dāna (offering) of the following things:—

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , October 1934 , pp. 729 - 736
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1934

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page 732 note 1 See my paper in Bhāratvarṣa (Bengali), 1340 B.S., 393 f.; also ch. iii, section 1 of my work Successors of the Sātavāhanas in the Eastern Deccan (in the press).

page 736 note 1 See ibid., ch. iii, section 2.