Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. V.
that Tailapadeva there was born a son named (Irivabedanga)-Satyasrayadeva; his son wus Vikramadeva (V.); his younger brother was Dasavarmadeva; his son was Jayasingaraya (II.);' his son was Åhavamalls-(Sômêsvara I.); his son was TribhuvanamallaPermadiraya-(Vikramaditya VI.); his son was Bhulókamalla-Sômésvaradeva (III.); his Bon was the Pratápachakravartin (Porme)-Jagadēkamalla (II.); his younger brother was Traiļokyamalla-Nurmadi-Tailapa (III.); and his son was Tribhuvanamalla-Sômêsvaradeva (IV.), whose prowess and majesty were as follows:
(L. 65)- When eighty fierce tusked elephants in rut were massed together (to oppose him), laying aside fear, and not relying upon (any other means), with one tuskless elephant be repulsed thom as if they were but one or two, and fought and conquered the countries, the towns, the elephants, and the horses; (and so) Sômêsvara aprooted that race of the Kalachuryas, as if it were but a billa-tree. In such a way that the Earth became free from enmity, and Fortune, having come under his control, became herself a very mine of generosity to him, and Fame laid his commands on the mouths of all the rulers of the points of the compass, and the lovely woman Victory was ever fettering the sword of his arm (to restrain him from altogether too excessive conquests), Vira-Sômėśvara (IV.), whose valour was unassailable, and who was the moon of the water-lilies that were the eyes of the wives of his foes, acquired the sovereignty. A very close connection between the earth and himself being formed at that time when the dense darkness that was the Kalachuryas dispersed before his brilliance, the Chåļukya king Sôma became famous.
(L. 69)-That samo Tribhuvanamalla-Sômêsvaradeva (IV.),- when the kumara Bammayya, the chief of all the leaders of the army, the establisher of the Chalukya Bovereignty, and he himself, were at the small village of Seleyahalliyakoppa with the pleasure of an agreeable interchange of communications, and were one day engaged in a discourse about religion and were reciting the praises of ancient and recent devotees of Sivaheard the story of how Ekantada-Ramayya, when he was at Abbalgru, and when all the Jains assembled and came and entered into a great disputation witn him and made & wager that, if he would cut off his head and could get it back from the hands of Siva, he might break their Jina and set up Siva, and gave (it in writing on) a palmyra-leaf, took the palmyraleaf that they gave, and cut off his own head, and then, after doing worship to Siva, on the seventh day got back his head free from all injury just as it was before, and obtained a certificate of victory, together with respectful treatment, from the hands of Bijjaņadeva, and broke the Jina, and destroyed the shrine and flang it down, and laid waste the site, and set up the god Vira-Somanátha, and in accordance with the Saiva traditions founded a temple with three pinnacles, as vast as a mountain. And Tribhuvanamalla-Sômêsvaradeva (IV.) was astonished, and, from a desire to see him, caused a letter of deferential invitation to be written, and made him come, and met him with respect, and took him along with himself to his own house, and did worship to him with great reverence, and, for the repairs of anything that might become broken or torn or worn-out belonging to the enclosures with beautiful pinnacłes of the temple of the holy god Vira-Somanatha, and for the angabhôga and the rangabhôga and the perpetual
1 There are mistakes here : Jayasinha II. was, indeed, a son of Da varman; but the latter was the younger brother of lrivaleda iga-Satyáfraye, not of Vikramaditya V.; and Vikramaditya V. Was & son of Dasavarman : see the table, above, Vol. III. p. 2.
Compare a verse in the Gadag inscription of A.D. 1192 (Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 800, text line 29 f.), which, properly translated, describes Brahms (the general who helped Somebvara IV. to recover the kingdom, and who is mentioned by the name of Bammayya in line 70 below) as conquering sixty tasked elephants with one young taskless elephant, when, in contempt of (i.e. in mutiny against his father, he was depriving the Kalacharyas of the sovereignty.
I.e. " the younger Bammayya; " 80 called to distinguish him from his grandfather of the same name (see Dyn. Kan. Dietrs. p. 464, note 8). He is the Brahma who is mentioned in the preceding note.
• Pasadey-appade, line 71, from padadey, for padaday, + appade, is a somewhat stilted equivalent of padadade or padadode.
See page 249 above, note 6.