Epigraphia Indica Vol 01

SR No.: 032555
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1893
Total Pages: 528
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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RATNAPUR INSCRIPTION OF JAJALLADEVA.
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have found by Professor Jacobi's tables that the 9th day of the bright fortnight of the month Margasirsha, 866, corresponds to the 8th November, A.D. 1114, which was & Sunday, as required. On that day, at sunrise, the 9th tithi of the bright half of the month was current, and it ended 19 h. 54 m. after mean sunrise.
By way of introduction, the inscription gives the following account of the prince JAjallado va and his ancestors :
In the lunar race there was Kartavirya (v.2), the ancestor of Haibaya, from whom were born the Haihayas (v. 3). In the race of these princes was born the Oh di ruler Kokalla, whose residence or country appears to be called Tritasaurya (v. 4). Kokalla had eighteen sons, of whom the first-born was ruler of Tripuri, while the others became lords of mandalas (v. 5). A descendant of one of these younger sons was Kalingaraja, who left Tritasaurya and acquired Dakshiņakobala (v. 6), where he settled at Tummaņa (v.7). His son was Kamalaraja (v. 8), and his son again Ratnaraja (v. 9) or Ratnéáa, who ornamented Tummana with temples, gardens, &c. (v. 10), and founded Ratnapura (v. 11-12). He married Nonalla, a daughter of Vajja ka, the prince of the Komð mandala (v. 18), who bore to him a son, Prithvideva or Prithvika, who succeeded Ratnaraja (v. 14-16), and built temples at Tuṁmana and a tank at Ratnapura (v. 17). He married Rajalla (v. 18), who bore to him Jajalladeva (v. 19). JAjalla was allied with the ruler of Ohedi (v. 20), and honoured by the princes of Kanyakubja and Jejabhuktika (v. 21); he defeated and captured in battle one somevara (v. 22); and he had either annual tri. bute paid or presents given to him by the chiefs of the mandalas of... [Dakshina)-koSala, Andhra, Khimidi, Vairagara, Lanjika, Bhandra, Talahari, Dandaka. pura, Nandavali, and Kukkuța (v. 28).
I am not at present able to give a satisfactory account of the countries and places mentioned in the preceding. The name Tummana we shall meet again in the two fol. lowing inscriptions, where it denotes a country or district, not a town. Perhaps it may have been the original name of the "Juna Shahar," which is mentioned as being close to Ratnapur in Archeological Survey of India Reporte, vol. VII, p. 216. Vairgara and Lanjika may be readily identified with Wairagarh and Lanji on the map, plate I, appended to vol. XVII of the Archeological Survey of India. The Talahari mandala is mentioned in lines 6 and 20 of a Ratnapur inscription of [Chêdi-] Samvat 915, which has suffered in the most deplorable manner, since it was first drawn attention to by Sir R. Jenkins in the Asiatic Researches, vol. XV, p. 604. Both
► With Sir A. Canningham's epoch of A.D. 949-50, the corresponding date would be sufurday, November 17, A.D. 1116. On the other hand, with the pooh A.D. 948-49, and year beginning with either the month Bhadrapada or Avina, the work-day of the ten inscriptions mentioned in the Book of Indian Eras, page 61, one out as follows:
Chadi 799, PhAlgona ba-di 9, Bomb, Monday, January 18, A.D. 1045. . 866, Marga fu-di 9, Ravau=Sunday, November 8, A.D. 1114.
896, Mágba fukla 8, Badha=Wednesday, January 3, A.D. 1145. → 898, Alvina fa-di 2, 88me=Monday, September 9, A.D. 1148.
902, AshAdha -di 1, Sunday=Bunday, June 17, A.D. 1161. #1 907, Marga fa-di 10, Ravau=Sunday, November 6, A.D. 1156.
800, Bravana fa-di 6, Budhe=Wednesday, July 2, A.D. 1168. # 92A, MAgha ba-di 10, Somd=Monday, December 27, A.D. 1176.
928, Brkvans fa-di 6, Raval=Bunday, July 3, A.D. 1177.
994, KArttika fu-di 16, Budbe=Wednesday, October 18, A.D. 1182. For a full account of the epool of the Chodi ora, se Nachrichten d. Gord. Wissenschaften, Göttingen, 1888, p. 81 41, and especially paper in the Indian Antiquary.