Epigraphia Indica Vol 06

SR No.: 032560
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 482
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. VI.
dated, without fall details, in the Vijaya samvatsara coupled with Saka-Samvat 855 (expired), = A.D. 933-34.
Govinda IV. was succeeded by a paternal uncle, whose proper name is known, as yet, only in the Prakpit forms of Baddegadêve and Vaddigadêva. The Deolt grant of A.D. 940 introduces him, in verse, by only the biruda of Amôghavarsha ;' so, also, does the Karhad grant of A.D. 959, using the same verse;' and so, in other verses, do the salotgi inscription of A.D. 9454 and the Kardå grant of A.D. 972: the Atakör inscription of A.D. 949-50 mentions him, in prose, only as Amôghavarshadêva. His proper name is met with first, as Baddegadêva, in the Western Ganga inscription of A.D. 975 at Hebba! ;7 the Bhadana Silahåra grant of A.D. 997 gives it as Vaddigadêva ;9 and the Khårépåtan Silahára grant of A.D. 1008 speaks of him as Vaddiganripa," king Vaddiga." We have, as yet, no records that can be referred with certainty to the time of Amôghavarsha-Vaddiga. But, that hel did reign, is shewn by the formal preambles of the prose passages of the Dehli and Karhad grants, which describe Akalavarshadêva-(Křishņa III.) as meditating on the feet of the Paramabhattáraka, Maharajadhiraja, and Paramêsvara Amoghavarshadêva ;10 and so also, by the Âtakûr inscription of A.D. 949-50, which, in a less stereotyped fashion, describes Krishna III. as a bee on the water-lilies that were the feet of the favourite of fortune and of the earth, the Paramésvara and Paramabhaffaraka Amoghavarshadêva.11
Amoghavarsha-Vaddiga was succeeded by his son Krishna III. His earliest record, the Debli grant of A.D. 940, introduces him as Krishnarajadêva, and then, in another verse, gives him the biruda of Srivallabha; " and, in the formal preamble of the prose passages, it styles him Akalavarshadeva, Prithvivallabha, and Vallabhanarendradēva, "his majesty the king Vallabha." The Salotgi inscription of his time, dated in A.D.945, does not add anything; as it only mentions him as Prithivivallabha, Akalavarshadôve, and Krishnaraja. The Åtakur inscription of A.D. 949-50 presents his name in the Präkfit form of Kannaradeva, and adds the birudas of Ankatrinêtre," a very Tripêtra (Siva) in battle," Anevedenge, "& marvel with elephants," Vanagajamalla, "& wrestler against forest-elephants," and Kachobega,
1 Kittel's Kannada-English Dictionary gives baddiga 18 another form of bandige, and the latter as tadbhana-corruption of the Sanskpit bandhika or bandhaka; but this does not seem to help us towards the Sanskrit name. The St. Petersburg Dictionary givee Vapdikn, also written Bandtke, a name of Indra; but it is hardly likely that Jagattunga II would name two sons after that god. We shall probably and the Banskrit form of the name, sooner or later, among the Kalachuris of Central India, into whose family Jagattunga JI., 4 well as his father Krishna II., intermarried. Meanwhile, we can only remark that the Karbid grant of A.D. 959 goes on, after the verse in which it introduces bim (nee note 8 below), to liken him, in a verse of its own which does not stand in the Daolt grant, to Manu, Kartavirya, Bali, and Dilfpe, and says that, though by possessing the qualities which they possessed he acquired pre-eminent and permanent fame, still "his behaviour towards olderly persons was humble through modesty,"-osiddlew namra-oharito pinay na yonbdt. It is just possible that there is a bint here that his proper name was something beginning with Vriddha, of wbieb Vaddiga would be perfectly admissiblo Prakrit form, on the analogy of baddi, maddi, ma fad bhara-forms of siddhi.
Above, Vol. V. p. 194, vene 19. • Above, Vol. IV. p. 288, verse 91; M regarde verso 22, no note 1 above. • Ibid. p. 62.
Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 266, text lines 21, 24-26. • Page 56 above.
* Above, Vol. IV. p. 852, text line 6. . Above, Vol. III. p. 271, text line 18. It is this record which, in the preceding verse, distinctly specifies him as the younger brother of Nityayarsbr-(Indrs III.).
Ibid. p. 298, text line 12. 1. Above, Vol. V. p. 196, text lines 48 to 46; and Vol. IV. p. 886, text linea 64, 66. 11 Page 66 above.
11 Above, Vol. V. p. 194, text line 81, 34. 11 Loo oit. p. 196, text line 45-46. The last appellation seems to be preceded, wit is in his Karbid great of A.D. 969, by the honorifle frimat,-Bot ért
* Above, Vol. IV. p. 60, text line 9-10, 18. * Fage 54 f. above, text lines 420, 81.