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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SOME RASHTRAKUTA RECORDS.
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in A.D. 972, is the first record to present his name as Khottigadeva, with the aspirated kh.1 This form is presented again in the Bhadana Silâhâra grant of A.D. 997. But the Khårêpatan Silâhâra grant of A.D. 1008 gives Khôţika.
Khottiga was succeeded by a nephew, who is most conveniently known as Kakka II. His Kardå grant of A.D. 972 seems to present his proper name first, in verse, as Kakkaraja ;- but it is possible that we ought to find there a superscript r, imperfectly formed or damaged, and that we ought to take the name to be Karkarája, which seems more likely to be the Sanskrit form of it: further on, in prose, it presents it as Kakkaladevaråja, which, from the practice noted further on regarding the ending deur, we must take to be its Prakpit form. The form Kakkaladeva was used in the Gundûr inscription of his time, dated in A.D. 973.6 The Bhâdâna Silahâra grant of A.D. 997 calls him Kakkalēša, "the lord Kakkala." And the Khårêpåtan Silahára grant of A.D. 1008 calls him simply Kakkala, without any ending. Among other later extraneous records, the Kaathêm Western Châlukya grant of A.D. 1009 gives his name as Karkara ;' and the Kalachurya inscription of A.D. 1161 at Managļi presents it as Kakkara.10 His Kardå grant of A.D. 972 gives him, in some lines in prose, containing epithets with rhyming endings, which stand just before the usual preamble of the prose passages, the birudas of Amoghavarsha, Natanapârtha, Ahitamartanda, Viranarayana, Nřipatunga, and
1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 265, text line 25.
* Above, Vol. III. p. 272, text line 16-17. • Ibid. p. 298, text line 16.
• Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 265, text line 26. - There is not, apparently, any such word as kakka. And the name seems to be certainly karka,' white, good, excellent ; & white horse ; & erab; the sign Cancer ;' etc.- The name occurs in four instances among the Rashtrukūtas before Kakka II. We meet with it first in the cases of Kakkurája II. of the first Gujarat branch, and of his ancestor Kakkaraja I, in the grant of A.D. 787 from the Surat district; and there, in all three passages, the first component of the name is distinctly written Kakka, with out the r (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 107, text line 3, and p. 108, lines 15, 28). We meet with it next in the case of Karks or Kakks I., father of Kishna I. of the main line: the SAmangad grant of A.D. 754 gives his name as Kakkarkja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 111, text line 9); the l'aithan grant of A.D. 794, however, gives it as Karkarja in using the same verse, and again in a subsequent verse (above, Vol. III. p. 106, text lines 7, 17); the Baroda grant of A.D. 811 or 812, using a new verse, gives it again as Karkarija (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 169, text line 5); the EllorA inscription at the Dasavatara cave, using again a new verse, apparently gives it in the same form, Karkarijs (Archeol. Suro. West. Ind. Vol. V. p. 88, text line 8); so, also, apparently do the Nausârf grant of A.D. 817 (Jour. Bo. Br. R.As. 8oo, Vol. XX. pp. 142, 143, verses 5, 11) and the Kavi grant of A.D. 826 or 827 (Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 146, verses 5, 11), both using the two verses of the Paithan grant, though the Baroda grant of A.D. 866 or 807, using again the same two verses, seems to give it a Kakkarája (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. P. 182, text lines 6, 11); the Bagamra grant, of doubtful authenticity, purporting to have been been issued in A.D. 888, uses again the two verses of the Paitlin grant, and gives it as Karkardja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 66 ... text lines 5, 10), and, finally, the Bhalns Sildhara grant of A.D. 997 gives it as KarkarAja, in a new verse of its own (above, Vol. III. p. 271, text line 3). And we meet with the same naine again in the case of the feudatory prince Suvarnararaha-Karkarajs of the second Gujarat branch : the Barods grant of A.D. 811 or 812 gives his name as Karkarja in the verse which introduces him and in the usual pregmble of the prose passages (Ind. Ant. V. L. XII. p. 160, text lines 36, 42), but seems rather to give it a Kakkarja in the passage that purports to be his signature (ibid. p. 161, text line 68), the Naurl grant of A.D. 817 apparently gives it as Karkarja in the verse, a new one, which introduces him, and also in the preamble of the prose passages (Jour. Bo. Br. R. 43. Soc. Vol. XX. p. 139, text lines 52, 56, in respect of the signature, the translation shows Karkaraja, p. 148, but the text has Kakkarija, p. 141, text line 8C), the Kavi grant of A.D. 826 or 827 apparently gives Karkaraja, in a new verse (Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 147, verse 31)the Baroda grant of A.D. 884 or 835 does the same (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 199, text line 14), in reproducing the verse of the Nausårl grant of A.D. 817; the Baguirá grant of A.D. 866 or 867, using both the verse of A.D. 826 or 827 and then the verse of A.D, 817, apparently gives it, in both places, as Kakkaraja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 183, text line 6); and the Bagumre grant, of doubtful authenticity, purporting to have been issued in A.D. 168, using the verse of A.D. 817, gives it as Karkardja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII p. 67, plate ii. a., text line 9). * Loc. cit. p. 266, text line 47.
6 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 271, text line 5. 1 Above, Vol. III. p. 272, text line 18.
8 Ibid. p. 298, text line 17. . Ind. Ast, Vol. XVI. p. 28, text line 41
10 Above, Vol. V. p. 16, text line 12.