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. 1.)
TWO GRANTS OF THE TIME OF MAHENDRAPALA.
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belonged to the Nakshisapura eighty-four (Nakshisdpura-chaturusiti) in the Saurashtra mandala, to (a temple of) Tarunadityadeva, located near the river Kanavirika in the vicinity of the village of Jayapura. The boundaries of the village were on the east the village of Viyaraka, on the south the village of Jayapura, on the west the villages of sonduvaks and Kôrinthaka, and on the north the village of Vavulika. After the usual admonition to preserve this gift and two imprecatory verses, the inscription, in line 68, ends with the dato sanovat 956 Magha-Sudi 6, the numerals of which here also are ordinary decimal figures.
The Chalukya chiefs mentioned in the preceding are not known from other inscriptions. The large Bilhari inscription, in Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 266, mentions a Chaulukya Avanivarman whose daughter Nohalê was married by the Kalachuri Chedi king Yuvaraja I. Köyüravarsha. That Avanivarman may have been a contemporary of Avanivarman II. Yöga of our grant B.; but-even assuming that the terms Ohalukya and Chaulukya might be used synonymouslyshe cannot be identical with him, because his father and grandfather were Sadhanya and SimhaVarman (not Balavarman and Avanivarman).
For Balaverman, a feudatory of Mahendrayudha (Mahôndrapala), the grant A. furnishes a date in about A.D. 893. We therefore may assume that his grandfather Vahukadhavala (P) lived about the middle of the 9th century A.D., and was almost certainly a feudatory of Mahôndrapåla's predecessor Bhôjadêya (Mihira) of Kanauj, for whom we possess dates from A.D. 843 to A.D. 881. Now in the inscription No. 77 of my Southern List this Mihira (Bhojadêva) is stated to have been defeated by the Gujarat Rishtrakața Dhruvarija II. This at any rate would show that he was at war with the Rashtraktas; and I believe that such a war is actually referred to in the account of Våhukadhavala's (?) exploits related in the grant B. In my opinion, the Karnața army which is said to have been defeated by him can only have been an army of the Rashtrakůțas. As regards (the king) Dharma who is stated to have been destroyed (or defeated) by the same chief, I know of no king Dharma who could have been a contemporary of his, excepting the well-known Påla king Dharmapala, and I see no reason why Dharma should not be identified with that Påla king, who at one time or another undoubtedly was at war with the rulers of Kansuj.
Balavarman himself defeated a certain Vishadha, and by slaying Jajjapa and other kings freed the earth from the Huņa race.' Who Vishadha was, it is impossible to say. Wars with Hûna kings are frequently mentioned in Indian inscriptions of the Middle Ages, and we know of a Hûna princess, Åvalladevi, who was married by the Kalachuri Karna in the 11th centary; bat in recording the name of Jajjape our grant B. for the first time discloses the name of an individual Hûna king, who must be placed in about the last quarter of the 9th century.
The kings or chiefs mentioned as opponents of Avånivarman II, Yoga, for whom we have & date in about A.D. 899, are Yakshadása and Dharanivardha. The former is unknown to ns. The latter I do not hesitate to identify with the Chapa Mahasamantadhipati Dharanivarába, known to us from his Haddala plates which were issued from Vardhamana (or Wadhwan in
This village was granted to the same temple of the Sun by the grant A.
? A daughter of the Kalachuri Yuvarkja I., Kundakadávt, was married by the Rashtrakata Amoghavarsha III. Baddiga, for whom we now possess dates in A.D. 987 and 939
* In Nos. 354 and 856 of my Northern Liat certain chiefs are described as both Chalukyas and Charlnkyar.
. See my note on the grammarians' ajayaj-Jartó Hinds in Nachrichten d. K. Go. d. Winschaftes e Göttingen, 1903, p. 306 1. The Pila DevapAls humbled the pride of the Bapa (Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 163, . 13); according to the Khards plates of the Rashtrakata Kakkarija II. Amoghavarsha of A.D. 972 this king fought battles with the lord (or lorda) of the Ham (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 286, L 32), the Paramar Utpala (Mufjarkja) took away the life of the Hàņas (ibid. Vol. XVI. p. 28, 1. 41); his younger brother Sindhuraja conquered the king of the Hdpan (Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 285, v. 16), ato.
Boo my Northern List, No. 353.
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