Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscript in the Central Provinces and Berar

SR No.: 011136
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Total Pages: 491
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 36 MB

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As for the date of the author, we have the following verses towards the end of Uttara-purana :
पुप्फयंत कवणा यपंके । जइअ हिमाण मेरुणामंके ॥ कडक भतिए परमत्थे । जिणपयपंकय मौलयहत्थे || कोहणसंवछरे आसाढ दहमए देयहे चंदसइरूढए ।
These verses convey that Pushpadanta completed the Puiana on the 10th of the bright fortnight of Ashadha in Krodhana samvatsara. Apparently there is no mention of the year in the verses, and hence we have to look for other data in the work to determine the year. Pushpadanta tells us that he was the protégé of Bharata, the minister of king Subhatungaraya of Manyakheta. The same king at other places in the work has been referred to as Vallabharaya. On both these names we have in the manuscripts a marginal explanatory, note "Krishnaraja" which proves that the note-maker thought Subhatungarava and Vallabharava to be only different names of "Krishnaraja. History tells us that there have been three kings bearing the name of Krishnaraja in the Rashtrakuta dynasty of the South. In the time of Krishnaraja I, the Rashtrakuta capital was not at Vanyakheta but near Nasik. Amoghav rsha I whose reign began in A.D. 815 established Manyakheta as a capital town and Krishnaraja II and III sat on the throne there. Krishna I reigned from about 722 to 758 and Krishna III we have epigraphical and literary records of years ranging from Saka 801 to 881 (A.D. 939 to 959). In order to decide as to which of these two kings has been referred to by Pushparlanta, we should examine some other data deducible from his epic. Quite at the beginning of the great work we have a line in which we are told that the king of Manyakheta who is here called "Tudiga" killed the king of the Cholas,
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[ उवबद्धजूड भूमंगभीसु । तोडेप्पणु चोडहो तणउ सीसु ॥ ]
We read in Dr. Smith's Early History of India (pp. 424430) that "The war with the Cholas in the reign of Krishna III Rashtrakuta was remarkable for the death of Rajaditya, the Chola king, on the field of battle in A. D. 949". Again in the Imperial Gazetteer, Vol. I, on page 332," we read, "The Rashtrakuta Krishna III 1940-71) had great success in the Chola country and inscriptions in that tract show that he exercised sovereign rights over parts of it. inscription at Atkur, also in Mysore of the year 949-50 relates that at a time when the Rashtrakuta king Krishna 111 was warring
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