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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(Vol. IX.
No. 22.-NOTE ON BHUJABALA MAHARAYA.
BY R. Sewell, I.C.S. (Retired). In Vol. VIII. 122 ff. Mr. H. Krishpa Sastri, B.A., publishes an inscription of the Kalasa chief Bhairava II. at Karkala in the South Canara district of the Madras Presidency, and in the course of his discussion on the history of the family quotes Mr. Rice's Mūdgere Talaq inscription of A.D. 1516 (Mg. 41). His comment on this is as follows—"This inscription supplies the interesting information that, during the reiga of the great Krishnaraya of Vijayanagara, Bhujabala-Maharaya led a campaign against the Tulu-rajya, and was encamped at the bluvana-sale in Mangaluru .. .. Bhujabala-Maharaya, who led the campaign, must be identical with Krishnaraya's elder brother Basbalrao' mentioned on p. 110 of Mr. Sewell's Forgotten Empire, etc. . . .
There seems to be a mistake here. Firstly, I note that Mr. Rice does not consider the word Bhujabala in the passage in question to be a proper name. The passage runs-Vijayanagarada bhujabala maharayaru Tuļu rajyada méle dandu bandu, and is translated by Mr. Rice-"The mighty (bhujabala) Mahârâya of Vijayanagara having come against the Tulu kingdom with an army." Here there is no ruler or leader named "Bhujabala Mahariya." Secondly, the leader of the army could only have been Nuniz's “Busbalrao," elder brother of Krishnadēva Raya, if the date of this expedition to the Tuļu country were referred to a period at least seven years earlier than the date of the inscription, because "Busbalrao" had died when Krishnadôvs was placed on the throne in A.D. 1509. It is possible that the expedition did take place before Krishnadeva's accession, and it is equally possible that it may allude to Krishnadova Raya's own exploit shortly after he came to the throne, when he, or his generals, reduced the Ganga Raja of Ummatúr in Mysore. The mention in "Mg. 41" of Krishpadêya Raya's supreme sovereignty over the Kalasa country during the chieftainship of Immadi-Bhairaren-Odeyar gives us no clue to the date of the Vijayanagara army's march to Mangalore, for this may have taken place at any period before the date of that chief's grant, vis., Sunday, July 13, A.D. 1516. Bat what is quite certain is that the leader of the army referred to could not have been Kộish adeva Raya's elder brother, whom Naniz called “Basbalrao," during, as stated by Mr. Krishọa Sastri, the reign of Kệishnaraya; for it was “Busbalrao's" death, according to Nuniz, that placed Krishnadeva on the throne.
At the date of the grant Krishnadeva was conducting his decisive campaign in the east, and had captured Kondavidu three weeks earlier, vis., on June 23rd, A.D. 1516.
No. 23.-RAJAPURA COPPER PLATES OF MADHURANTAKADEVA.
[SAKA] SAMVAT 987.
BY HIRA LAL, B.A., NAGPUR. The discovery of this first copper plate inscription in the wild Bastar State of the Central Provinces is the result of the zeal with which Rai Bahadur Baijnath, B.A., the Superintendent
1 Page 127, note 2. Will some one tell us whether the name should be spelt Kalafa or Kalasa. It appears to be spelt either way in the original inscriptions. Thus in Mg. 40 (the inscription preceding the one in question). the Kanarese text has Kalasa in line 11, and Kalafa in line 12. On p. 68 of his translation Mr. Rice gives us three times Kafala and Ove times Kalasa; on p. 69 we have four times Kalara (not Kalafa) and three times Kalasa. This last form is certainly wrong, for the second akshara is always fa in the original. The variation is only in the third syllable. Mr. Krishna Sastri, in the Epigraphia spells the word consisteatly Kalasa.
· See Ep. Carn. VI. 155-262, lines 1-2.