Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

SR No.: 032566
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1913
Total Pages: 464
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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INSCRIPTIONS FROM YEWUR: NOTES BY DR. FLEET.
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such as are under the rules of this establishment; if there should be a man who lusts for venery in this establishment, the establishment and the kings must expel him. This law shall endure as long as the moon, sun, and stars; may there be good fortune!
NOTES BY Dr. FLEET.
1. Kembhavi inscription of A.D. 1054. About twelve miles south-west-by-south from Yowar there is a village named Kembhavi, baving five inscriptions. One of them, the only important one, is at a temple which is now knowu as the temple of Siddheśvara : it is of interest in connection with the Yowär inscription A, edited by Dr. Barnett at p. 268 above.
This record refers itself (lines 1-7) to the reign of the Western Chāļukya king Trai. lokyam.alla-(Sõmēsvara I), who was reigning at the nelevidu of Kalyāņa. It then gives (11. 8-16) two verses which present the following short pedigree:-Chanda (I), "a leader among kings (raj-agrani);" his son Nimba; his son Allapuli; his elder brother Chanda-bhüpāļaka (II), "& sun in the sky which is the lineage of Ayyana ;" and his son Müvadi-ganda. Then, reverting to prose, it introduces (11. 16-24) the Mahamandalēsvara Rēvarasa. In its de scription of him it repeats the biruda Müvadi-ganda (11. 17-18), thus identifying him as the son of Chanda II, and also styles him Mumnuni-Komkaniga-jaladhi-badavānala, “a submarine fre to the ocean which is Mummuni of the Konkan" (1. 22), perhaps with reference to some hostilitios with the Silābāra prince Mummuņi or Māmvāņi, for whom we have a date in A.D. 1000. It also gives him the hereditary titles of Mahishmati-puravar-ēsvara "lord of Mābishmati a best of towns" (1.17), and Kārttariryya-kula-tiļaka, "a forehead-mark of the family of Kartavirya," (1. 19). This last title takes here the place of the Ahihaya-vamsodbhava of the Yöwür insoription A : but it means the same thing, as Kartavirya was a name of Arjuna, a prince of the Haihayas, who was killed by Parasurama; and it thus gives the explanation of the name Ahihaya as another form of Haihaya.
It then tells us that Rēvarasa's wife was Māļiyabbarasi (1. 41);- and that she established a god named Māļibēsvara (1. 43-44), and made grants to it, beginning with one thousand mattars of arable land (key) in the eastern fields of the rajadhani Kembāvi, and including
1 This name means "the red well." The true form of it is Kerabavi, as given in the record itself (but with us for m); the second component being bari - rapi : but modern custom uses bärhei, bhavi, and bhänvi; and the naine is shown as Kembhavi' in the Indian Atlas sheet 57 (1854), and as Kenblawi' in the Hyderabad Survey sheet 79 (1885). The place is very likely the Kembavi which figures in the Basava.Purana : see references giveu by Kittel iu his Kannada-English Dictionary under kem.
See my Dynasties of the Kanarono Diatricts in the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Port ii, p. 543.
I Sea Sorensen's Index to the Namen in the Mahabharata, under Arjuna and Kantavirya. This Arjuna kada thousand arms, whence he was also called Sahasrabáhu and Sahasrarjuda. For this last form see Kjelhorn's List of the Northern Inscriptions, No. 416; his Southern list, No. 98; and Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 263. It may be noted that the name Kärtavirya is used in the Raghuvamia, which (VI. 37-48) puts forward the thousand-armed Kärta. virya as the original ancestor of Pratipa, king of the Anūpas, whose city was Mahishmati on the Rēva (Narbada).
+ Lines 25-40 recite her charms and terito, iutroducing her as mano-nayana-pallabhe," the favorite of the mind and eyes" of Rēvarasa; but there is nothing else to be quoted from this passage : the inscriptions seldom say anything about the pedigrees of ladies, except in the case of alliances between royal families.
Kembåvi can hardly have ranked « . rajudhani, " onpital", except as being the alke-vada of the Mahanapdalalvera Rövarase, the town at which he ruled.
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