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See, also, my papers, based on research of Vakatakas inscription:
Structure of the Early Indian Land-Grants and the Problems of its Interpretation. In: Oriental Studies in the 20-th century: Achievements and Rrospects, vol.1, pp. 23-24 (abstract of paper, which I read on ICANAS in 1997);
(in russian) In: International conference "Pamyatniki duhovnoi, materialnoi i pismennoi kultury drevnego i srednevekovogo Vostoka". M., 1995, pp.42-44 (abstract)
Detailed research included in my book "State in Ancient India" (on Russian). M. 1997. (Deponiered in INION).
Partly it included in my part of "State in the History of te Society. To the Problem of State Criteria". M. 1998, M. 2001 (Second edition), in Russian, which will be publicated in e-form some times later, after realization of the second edition.

See also the TABLE of immunity formulas in Vakataka inscriptions with comm.

ABBREVIATIONS.

ASWI - Archaeological Survey of Western India.
B - Buhler
Bh. No. - No. in Bhandarkar's List
BRVRI - Bulletin of Rama Varma Research Institute, Cochin
CII - Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum
EI - Epigraphia Indica
Fl. No. - No. In Fleet's CII, III,
HAS - Hyderabad Archaeological Series.
HLI - Historical and Literary Inscrs.-R. B Pandey, Chaukhambа Samskrt Series, Vol XXIII, Varanasi, 1962.
IA - Indian Antiquary
IAR - Indian Archaeology, A Review
IE.AR. - Indian Epigraphy, Annual Reports on (Archaeological Survey of India)
IHQ - Indian Historical Quarterly
JAHRS - Journal of Andhra Historical Research Society
JBBRAS - Journal of the Bombay Branch of Royal Asiatic Society
JBORS - Journal of the Bihar Orissa Research Society
JESI - Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India.
JPASB - Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society Bengal
JUPHS - Journal of the United Provinces Historical Society
Mi - V.V. Mirashi
MP - Madhya Pradesh
NUJ - Nagpur University Journal
PIHC - Proceedings of the Indian History Congress
POC. - Proceedings and Transactions of All-India Oriental Conference
PRAS - Progress Reports of Archaeological Survey
SAII - Studies of Ancient Indian Inscriptions (Hindi)-B. Upadhyaya
Shirmali - K.M. Shirmali, Agrarian structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan. A Study in Vаkатaka inscriptions, Dehli, 1987.
SI - Selected Inscriptions of D.Ch. Sircar
VIJ - Vishveshwaranand Indological Journal
VSMA - Vidarbha Samshodhak Mandal Annual