Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
stand, the tongue is the pen; now and then to write and present the account of the glory of Hari's name is my occupation."
Regarding the service (sevá) of the Dâsas, Varaha prays: "Through Vy à sa is the Veda service, through Parà sara the Smriti service, the wholesome Vrata (vow) service through Rukmâñgada; make thou the service to become a Dâs a rise in me! I will become a servant (sevika)!" "Thy service (sevd), thy worship (pújá), thy name are on my tongue, O Varâha Timmappa!" "If Hari's thought (dhyana), Hari's worship (pújá), the praise (kirtana) of Hari's name, the dance (nartana), of Hari's devotion (bhakti), Hari's services (send) do not appear (to thee) severally, with perseverance call Varâha Timmappa, O mind!" And, in a refrain, Vijaya sings: "This is the Dâsas' lot: they fill all countries."
Some of the songs are didactic, reminding of the sure approach of death or of hell, and thus exhorting to worship Krishna; or inculcating some sort of judicious (sometimes quaint) or
[NOVEMBER, 1873.
also moral conduct. Others refer to the feats of Båla Krishna; others enjoin the pújá of the Tulasi or that at Dasamis, Ekâdasis, Dvâdasis, &c.; others contain an enumeration of the ten incarnations (dasávatára); others relate how Krishna helped the Pandavas and killed the Kauravas (as the partisans of Śiva); others are rather impatient prayers under difficulties; one or two are morning songs to awaken the idol to receive the offerings brought; others describe the dress of the idol; others recommend a pilgrimage to Tirupati or give a description of such a one, &c. Purandara, in three songs, containing together 237 verses, paints the different pújás connected with the Uḍupu establishment, as they take place under ordinary circumstances or at festivals. Idolatry has, to a large extent, been promoted by the Karṇataka Dâsa movement.
The bards relate that Vâlâ Râma Râja, son of Vala Warsingji, reigned at Junagadh and Vanthali. He was famed for his munificence, and it is told of him that when his beard was shaved for the first time, he gave in charity twenty-one villages and distributed fifty lakhs of rupees as alms to the poor. Ráma Râjâ was of the Vâlâ race. It is said in Saurashtra that previous to the rise of the kingdom of Junagadh-Vanthali Valabhinagar was the capital of Gujarât. The rise of Valabhi is thus told by the bards. The Gupta kings reigned between the Ganges and Jamna rivers. One of these kings sent his son Kumara Pål Gupta to conquer Saurashtra, and placed his Viceroy Chakrapâni, son of Prândat, one of his Amirs, to reign as a provincial Governor in the city of Wâmanasthali (the modern Wanthali). Kumara Pâl now returned to his father's kingdom. His father reigned 23 years after the conquest of Saurashtra and then died,
LEGENDS OF THE EARLIER CHUDASAMA RAS OF JUNAGADH.
BY MAJOR J. W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAHLANPUR. and Kumara Pâl ascended the throne. Kumâra Pål Gupta reigned 20 years and then died, and was succeeded by Skanda Gupta, but this king was of a weak intellect. His Senâpati, Bhattaraka, who was of the Gehlotî race, taking a strong army, came into Saurashtra and made his rule firm there. Two years after this Skanda Gupta died. The Senapati now assumed the title of King of Saurashtra, and, having placed a Governor at Wâmanasthali, founded the city of Valabhinagar. At this time the Gupta race were dethroned by foreign invaders. The Senâpati was a Gehlot, and his forefathers reigned at Ayodhya Nagari until displaced by the Gupta dynasty. After founding Valabhi he established his rule in Saurashtra, Kachh, Lat-desh, and Malwâ. The Vâlâs were a branch of the Gehlots. After the fall of Valabhi the Vâlâ governor of Wamanasthali became independent. Ram Raja had no son, but his sister was married to the Raja of
mappa (if Udupa, and not Tirupati, is under stood, Udupu's idol would bear the same name), (i.e.) Siva, the great Rudra, the fire-eyed, the husband of the daughter of (Hima) giri." This plainly refers one to another song of Purandara wherein he says that in Udupu there is
A reference to Chaitanya, the Bangali I have found nowhere in the Karnataka Dása padas; Chaitanya as an epithet of Krishna, however, occurs a few times. Merkara, 22nd July 1873.
a temple (gud) of the three gods, so that it is Brahma pura, Kailasa, and Vaikuntha, there being guru Brahms, guru Vishnu, and guru Mahadeva. I have inquired and learned that Brahmans called Uḍupa also Rajatapars.