Epigraphia Indica Vol 11

SR No.: 032565
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1911
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE SIRPUR STONE INSCRIPTION.
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There are four kings in this list, but there are only two names, vis. Sivagapta and Bhavagupta. Three of them have a second name which may have been their birth-names or titles. The Sivagupta of our inscription had also a second name, i.e. Bälärjuna. This Bälärjuna Sivagupta may possibly be the grandfather of the titleless Sivagupta of the Katak inscriptions. By the way it may be noted that his granduncle Tivaradeva who was king was also called Mahāśiva as stated in the Balodā and Räjim plates. I suppose that the title of Harshagupta must have been Mahabhavagupta, and any further discoveries giving both the names would, I venture to think, confirm this surmise. So we can trace back the official title of Mabāśiva up to Tivarvadēva at least and he was possibly great-great-granduncle of the first Sivagapta of the Somavansi records. According to this view the genealogical tree of the amalgamated Sirpur and Katak Gupta dynasty would be as under :
Udayanas
Indrabala
Name not preserved
Nannadēva
Išānadeva
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) (3
(
Names of (1), (2) (3)
not preserved
Bhavadēva, Ranakēsarin Chintădurga
or
Mahasiva Tivaradeva
Chandragupta Harshagupta
Ranakesarin
Mahāśivagupta-Bälärjuna
Mahābhavagupta ? Mahāśivagupta or Sivagupta
(the first of Katak list) Mahâbhavagupta - Janamējaya
Mahāśivagupta - Yayāti Mahābhavagupta - Bhimaratha
These were probably oflicidl names, assumed on installation as king, as is still done in some of the state towards Orissa; for instance, the Raja of Bámra is either & Südhaladóvs or s Tribhuvanadēvs. The present chief whose name was Satchidananda when he was yuraraja, is Tribhuvanadēva, and so was his grandfather, and his grandson will bear the same name.
* See above, Vol. VII. p. 103, and Gupta Inscriptions, p. 296.
# For sources of information for this genealogy, see Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII. p. 179, J. R. A. S. 1905, p. 621, Consen's Progress Report of the Archological Survey of Western India for 1904, p. 54, and above, Vol. III. P. 327.. Note that Mahāśiva Tivaradova's regal uncle and his possible predecessor at least in one part of Maha Bola was a Bhavadeva, Chintädurga or Ranskësarin. Whether the name Bhavadórs was merely fortuitous or otherwise, I leave the reader to consider.
• From the extracts given by Prof. Kielborn (above. Vol. IV. p. 257) it appears that Bhavadeva was the fourth son of Udayana and not the fourth grandson represented in the genealogical table. But on further examination of the inscription, Prof. Kielborn has stated that " Bhavadova Ranakarin was the fourth son of Indrahala's younger brother whose name has not been preserved;" (J. R. A. S. for 1907, p. 621 f. -Ed.] Above, Vol. VIII. p. 140.
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