Epigraphia Indica Vol 09

SR No.: 032563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch, Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 498
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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No. 9.]
THE CHAHAMANAS OF NADDULA.
town of Jalor in the same State. A place named Kåsahrada has been identified by the late Prof. Bühler with Kasandra or Kåsandhra, & village with about 400 inhabitants on the road from Dholka to Palitâna, in Long. 72° 11', Lat. 22° 19'; but the Kåsahrada of this inscription may be a different place nearer Nadol.- According to verse 41 Kirtipâla's daughter Rûdaladevi built two temples of Siva at Jávalipura.
(16.) His son Samarasimha (vv. 37-40). He built extensive ramparts on the Kanakachals (or gold hill ') and founded the town of Samarapura.- This town I am unable to identify. Kanakúchala according to Mr. Ojha is the name of the fort of J&lor which, he informs me, is locally known as 'Sonalgarh,' and the Sauvarna-giri of Javalipars I find actually mentioned in an inscription on Mount AbQ. In an inscription of the Vikrams] year 1221, from which Mr. Ojha has sent me a quotation, it is called Kanchana-gadha.- Samarasimha clearly is the Chahu[mána")-rána[ka]: Samarasiha, whose daughter Liladevi was the (or a) queen of the Chaulukya Bhimadeva II.
(17.) His son Udayasimha (vv. 42-46). According to the proge passage in lines 35 and 36 he ruled 'the glorious Naddule, the glorious Jåvälipura, Måndavyapura, Vågbbatamēru, Sûrâchanda, Râțahrada, Khêda, Ramasainya, Srimâla, Ratnapura, Satyapura, and other places. With the exception of Måndavyapura and Råtahrads the places here enumerated are easily found on the map of the Rajputâna Agency in Marwar) under the names Nádol, Jálor, Barmer, Suráchand, Kher (between Tilwára and Balotra), Rámgen, Bhínmál, Ratanpura and Sánchor. Måndavyapura is Mandor, according to the Rajputana Gazetteer three miles from Jodhpur; Râtahrada I cannot identify.- Udayasimha's queen was Prahladangdôvi, who bore to him two sons, Cháchigadêva and Chåmundarêja. Regarding his exploits, the inscription states in a general way that he curbed the pride of the Turushka, was not to be conquered by the Gurjars kings, and put an end to the Sindhu king. He was a scholar conversant with the great works of Bharata and others, and built two Siva temples at Jåvälipura.- Udayasimha clearly is identical with the Maharajudhiraja Udayasiṁhadeva of whose reign we have three inscriptions at Bhinmal (Nos. 697-699 of my Northern List) dated in the (Vikrama) years 1262, 1274 and 1305, corresponding to about A.D. 1205, A.D. 1218, and about A.D. 1248 ; and also with the Maharajakula Udayasim hadeva, for whom I have given a date, falling in A.D. 1249, in Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 175, No. 115. He was succeeded by
(18.) his sons Chichigadêvs (vv. 47-57). He in verse 50 is described as "destroying the roaring Gørjara lord Virama, hating the enemy Salya, taking exquisite delight in felling the shaking (or leaping) Patuka, depriving of his colour Sange, and a thunderbolt to the mountainthe furious Nahara.' As will be seen from this translation, the words falya, patuka and sanga of the original must in my opinion, like virama and nahara, be taken as proper names; but of the five persons enumerated I can identify only the first. Being described as Gurjara lord, Virama appears clearly to be the Vaghela Viramadeva, the son of Vfradhavala and elder brother of Visaladdva, who is reported to have been the son-in-law of Udayasimha of J&valipura,' and
1 See his paper on the Sukritasankirtana of Arisimba, p. 26. For another identifortion of Kasuhrada see above, Vol. VIII. p. 206, note 2.
For a description of this fort which is about 800 yards in length by 400 in width, and crowns rocky bill of so altitude of 1,200 feet above the surrounding plain, see the Bdjputna Gasatteor, Vol. IL p. 260.
+ Line 98 of No. 1722 of Mr. Consens' List. . See the plates of Bhimadera IL. (of A.D. 1206) in Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 195, Plate ii. lioel.
I.e. apparently the Bharatlya-udtyasdetra.
Udayasimha's other son Chamondarijs is not further mentioned in the inscription. He may be the Chamondarijs whose name ocuri under No. 708 of my Northors List
1 Salys probably is a proper Dame, denoting an enemy of Lavan prakda slao in Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 37, versa 19.-In our inscription the name may be Satrufalys; compare Prof. Eggeling's Catalogue, p. 1510.
* See Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 190. Compare also the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I. Part I. p. 203, where Jabalipura bas been taken to be Jabalpur.