Epigraphia Indica Vol 02

SR No.: 032556
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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JAINA INSCRIPTIONS FROM SATRUMJAYA.
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given in verses 10—20, cannot be complete. It names only ten ancestors who cannot possibly fill the seven centuries and a half which intervene between the traditional date of king Ama and that of the inscription, Vikrama Samvat 1587.
The inscriptions mention also a good many other subdivisions of the Osval tribe, viz.
I.-A Vșiddhasa kha, which is subdivided into the following gotras or families, -(1) Obada, No. xxxiii; (2) Ch&jeđa, No. cvi; (3) Nadala, Nos. xxxviii, xxxix; (4) NAhata, No. lxxx; (5) Mummiya, No. xcvi; (6) Rajakoshthagara, Nos. i, ii, iïi; (7) Yadugada, No. lxviii; (8) Lalaņa, No. xxi; (9) Luņiya, No. lx; (10) Lodhá, No. xvi.
II.-A Laghusakha, to which belongs (1) the Nagada golra, No. xc; (2) the Shota gotra, No. xi.
III.-An Addaisakha, to which belongs the Kumkumalola gotra, Nos. xci, xcviii.xcix. The members of this kákhd and gotra, as represented by the family of the Nagarsheth of Ahmadabad, besides claim kinship with the Sisodia Rajputs of Mevad. - see No. xci. Visa Osavalas are mentioned in No. cxv.
The tribe next in importance is that of the Srimalis, called after the town of Srimala or Bhillamala, the modern Bhinmal in the extreme south of Marvad. It includes
I.-A Vșiddhasakha, Nos. xxxvii, cxii, of which no subdivisions are given ; II.-A Laghusakha, Nos. xxix, xxxiv, lxxvi, to which belongs, according to
No. xliv, the Kasyapa gotra, the members of which claim kinship with the
Paramara Rajputs. A Visa Srimali occurs in No. xcv.
About the same importance belongs to the Pragvåța tribe, called also Praga. casa. Nos. iv, vi and viii, or by its modern name Poravada or Poravala. (pronounce Porvad and Porvål). It seems, too, to have an elder and a junior branch, as No. xv. xvii, xxv, and xli mention its Laghu Akha. Visa Poravadas or Poraválas are named in Nos. 1 and xcvii; Dasa-Porvadas in cvii. A few other tribes occur each in single inscriptions, viz. Gurjara jñáli, No. X; Disavala jñati, No. vii; Dagada gotra, No. liv; Nimma jñáti, No. ciii; Mohota gotra, No. cV; Samghavala gotra, and Kachara samtána, No. xiv. The native places of the donors are :
(1) Ajamera, i.e. Ajmir in Rajputâna, (2) Anahillapura, also called Pattana, (3) Antara pura in Vágvaradesa or Dungarpur, (4) Ahmadabad, called eleven times by its Sanskrit name, Rajanagara, the
capital,' (5) Ugrasenapura, (6) Kapadavaņaja in the Kheda Collectorate, (7) Kasi, or Benares, (8) Kothara in Kachh, (9) Khambanayara, s.e. probably Cambay, (10) Ghand hâra in the Bharoch Collectorate, (11) Chitrakuța, or Chiţor in Mevád,