Parshvabhyuday

SR No.: 001704
Original Sutra Author: Jinsenacharya
Author: M G Kothari
Publisher: Gulabchand Hirachand Doshi
Total Pages: 844
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Literature, & Mythology
File Size: 16 MB

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plate mentions two names of the successors of king Dhruvarāja. From this it can be inferred that the date inscribed on the said copper-plate must belong to the period posterior to the year 705 of the śālivāhana saka era. The reason advanced against the date 679 inscribed on the above-referred to copper-plate by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar is, in my opinion, rather unsound. His argument runs as- One howerer is confronted with the difficulty that whereas under this supposition we have the date 679 for Karkka, we have saka 675 for his grandson, Dantidurga, supplied by his Sāmanagadha charter. This difficulty is not insuperable because there are reasons to doubt the genuineness of this last record.' Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar seems to have held that the Ā. Chh, copper-plate had been inscribed by king Karkkarāja, the grandfather of king Dantidurga. I am unable to agree with this view, for it could not have been possible for Karkkarāja to mention the names of king Dhruvarāja and his son, who were removed from him six and seven degrees respectively. I think, therefore, that king Karkkarāja, who got the copper-plate
ved, is that king who had succeeded king Dhruvaraja and so the date 679 inscribed on the Copper-plate is most probably incorrect. Moreover, the date 675 inscribed on the Sāmanagadha plate is also incorrect, for it goes against the date 553 inscribed in the copper-plate from Tivarakheda and against the dates of king Amoghavarşa and his predecessor king Jagattunga alias Dantidurga given by the well-known Jain scholars.
Moreover, Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar is found in his article, dealing with the coppor-plate inscription from Sanjānā, to have omitted the name of king Akālavarşa alias king Krşparāja which is found referred-to in the Sanjānā copper-plate inscription as well as in the Uttarapurāņa Prasasti and in one of the works, of Puşpadanta, the great poet.
According to the copper-plate inscriptions from Navasāri, Deoli and Karhāda, king Kệsparāja had been the successor of