Siddhi Vinischay Tika Part 01

SR No.: 004038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Anantviryacharya
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 686
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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2. THE AUTHORS: AKALANKA
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It has been already discussed that Akalarika was a young man during the last phase of Sāhasatunga's reign. It can be said without any fear of contradiction that the final verdict, thanks to Dr. Saletore, on the problem of the identity of Sāhasatunga with Dantidurga has been passed by his research. He concludes, after a masterly analysis of the problem of identifying Sāhasatřnga with Dantidruga II : “This is proved by an inscription on the four faces of a pillar set up in the court-yard of the Rāmalingeśvara temple at Rāmeśvara near Proddhatūru,...... It is written in Sanskrit and Kannada languages, the script being in Kannada......It belongs to the reign of the Rāștrakūta King Kệşņa III......The inscription consists of about twenty-five verses which give the genealogical account of the Rāștrakūtas down to Krsna III, who is praised in the record......" The lines referring to Dantidurga as Sāhasatunga are :
Sri-Dantidurga-eti durdhara-bāhu-vīryyo Calukya-sindhu-mathanodbhava-rājalaksmīm Yas sambabhāra ciram-ātmakul-aikakāntām
tasmin Sähasatunga-namni nrpatau svassundariprārthitel Thus, it is conclusively proved that Sähasatunga was no other than Dantidurga II. The date of Sāhasatunga Dantidurga is 756 A.D.2
(3) In the light of this proof that Dantidurga had the biruda Sāhasatung, the reference to the line-vikramārkaśakābdīya' will be taken as Saka Samvat for the following reasons :
(i) The verse containing ‘vikramārka śakābdīya' should be read
as ‘vikramārkaśakābdīyd' implying thereby Saka era qualified
by Vikrama. (ii) It is almost an accepted tradition followed by Jaina authors
to refer Saka era as 'vikramārkasaka'. This is supported by several instances. Dhavalā was completed in 816 A.D., 'when Jagattunga (i.e. Govinda III of the Rāstrakūta dynasty) had abandoned the throne and Amoghavarsha I was ruling3' It is mentioned that Dhavalā was completed in the year 738 of Saka (A.D. 816). The ending verses of Dhavalā run"athati samhi Sata sae Vikkamarāyankie-susaganāme
Vase suterasie bhānuvilagge dhavalapakkhe” Hence Vikramārkita Saka must be interpreted as Saka era4. Otherwise it will not tally with the time of Jagattunga and Amoghavarşa.
1 JBHS, vol. VI, Pp. 29-33. 2 The Rāsțrakūtas and their Times, p. 10. 8 Şarkhandāgama, vol. I, Eng. Intro. p. ii and Hindi Intro. Pp. 35-45. • Dhavalā, vol. I Hindi Intro. p. 41.