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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MALIYAPUNDI GRANT OF AMMARAJA II.
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ABRIDGED TRANSLATION. Verse 1 invokes the religion (faisana) of the lord Jinêndra.
(Line 7.) Kubja-Vishnuvardhana (I.), the brother of Satyasraya-Vallabhendra who adorned the family of the Chalukyas, ruled the Vêngi country mandala) for eighteen years; his son Jayasinha (I.) for thirty-three; Vishņuvardhana (II.), the son of his younger brother Indraraja, for nine ; his son Mangi-yuvarája for twenty-five; his son Jayasimha (II.) for thirteen ; his younger brother Kokkili for six months ; his eldest brother Vishnuvardhana (IL.), having expelled him, for thirty-seven years ; his son Vijayaditya (I.)-bhattaraka for eighteen ; his son Vishņuvardhana (IV.) for thirty-six.
(V. 2.) King Vijayaditya (II.), surnamed Narendramrigaraja, who had the courage of a lion, for forty years with eight.
(L. 13.) His son Kali-Vishņuvardhana (V.) for one year and a half. His son, whose other name was Parachakraráma,
(V. 3.) (was) Vijayaditya (III.), who, having slain in a great battle Mangi, the king of the great Nodamba-rashtra, having defeated the Gangas who took refuge on the peak of Gangakata, and having terrified Sankila, the lord of the excellent Dashalla, who was joined by the fierce Vallabha, ruled the earth for forty-four years.
(L. 16.) Chalukya-Bhima (I.), the son of his younger brother Vikramaditya (I.) who had received the dignity of Yuvardja, for thirty. His eldest son' Vijayaditya (IV.) for six months. His eldest son Ammaraja (I.) for seven years. Having overcome his infant son, Tala-nfipa, the son of Yuddhamalla (I.), the paternal uncle of Chalukya-Bhima (I.), for one month.
(V. 4.) Having slain at the head of a rough battle this Tala-raja together with crowds of different vassals, who were joined by a superior army (and) had troops of furious elephants, the glorious king Vikramaditya (II.), the son of king Chalukya-Bhima (I.), of very fierce power, righteously ruled for one year the earth surrounded by the girdle of the oceans.
(L. 22.) Afterwards at the setting (i.e. the death) of Vikramaditya (II.), the kinsmenprinces who were desirous of the kingdom, (viz.) Yuddhamalla, Rajamartanda, KanthikeVijayaditya, etc., were fighting for supremacy, oppressing the subjects like Rakshasas (at the setting of the sun). In mere war five years passed away. Then succeeded)
(V.5 f.) The fierce warrior who slew among those Rajamärtanda ; who in a battle made Kanthik-Vijayaditya and Yuddhamalla go to a foreign country; the curved sword wielded by whose strong arm dispatched to the abode of Death many others who, though respectable kings, had shown themselves puffed up by evil conduct (and) causing distress to the country ; (and whose) command is carried on the head like a garland by the eager kings of the earth.
(V. 8.) This Rajabhims (II.), the son of Vijayaditya (IV.) (and) grandson of ChalukyaBhima (I.), righteously ruled the surface of the earth for twelve years.
(V. 9.) Ammaraja (II.), who was born to him by Lôkamahadevi, as Kumara to Mahbávara by Ums;
(V. 13 f.) Who-- as the eastern lord of mountains, to redden the world, (puts on himself) the sun-put on, to please the world, the fillet in the twelfth year of his birth, in the year reckoned by the mountains (7), the flavours (6) and the Vasus (8)-(i.e. 887)- of the Saka era,
The reading of the text sems to be meant for furgat vefa, which would however be against the metre.
The other Eastern CbAlukya inscriptions show that agraja has to be taken here to mean the first-born son,' hd not, as usually, the elder brother. A similar use of the word agrajanman is noted by Dr. Yleet, above, Vol. VII. p. 181.