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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EPIGRAPHIA IN DICA.
[VOL. XII.
1136 (current), in the month Chaitra, on Monday (Somavāra) which was a sürya-parvan or solar festival; and the corresponding English date is Monday, 22 April, A.D. 1213, the new-moon day of Chaitra, on which day there was a total eclipse of the sun, visible in India. The record recites that on that day the Dēvagiri-Yadava king Singhana gave "the village Kadala-Damavada, situated at the confluence of the rivers Kodala Krishnaveni and Bhenasi and in the Mirimji country, up to its boundary (starting froin the holy confluence of the rivers Krishnaviņi and Kuvēņi, srimad-idya-srayamblurē sri-Kopēśrara-raya, "to the holy first eelf-existent one, the holy god Koppeśvara :" also, that lie repaired and gave to that Bame god "all that is found from previous times at the two villags Jagula and Siriguppa."
Now, the temple at which the stone tablet bearing this inscription stands is still known as the temple of Koppeśvara. It has not exactly the architectural pretensions with which in my inexperiei ue I credited it nearly forty years ago : and it seems in fact to bave been built on the site of an earlier temple of the Chalukya period. Still, it is a great and noteworthy building. With it and the inscription takeu together, especially in view of the description of the god as “the boly first self-existent one," it can hardly be doubted that the god of this temple is the original and great Koppeśvara. And in the light of all the points set out above we cannot besitate, in my opinion, to take this god as the Isvera of Koppa mentioned in the Yēwór inscription B, sud to place here, & Knidrāpār on the Krishņā, the "great tirtha Koppam on the bank of the great river," which was the scene of the battle between the Cholas and the Chalukyas.
I may add that in my opinion this same record enables us to identify Kūdalsangam, the scene of another Chola-Cbalukya battle, with the confluence of the Krishna and the Pañchganga; also, that I locate in the same neighbourhood, at Inchal-Karanji, the place Karandai, which was still another of the same series of hattle-fields. Tiese points, Lowever, must be dealt with in a more detailed note on another occasion.
No. 33.-FOUR EARLY INSCRIPTIONS FROM MANIKIALA, HASHTNAGAR,
AND SANCHI.
BY F. E. PARGITER, M.A., 1.C.S. (RETD.). These four inscriptions have been published before, but are now re-edited at Dr. Fleet's desire in order to have them properly illustrated and readily accessible. He has furnished me
Sewell and Diksbit's Indian Calendar, p. 123; and see Von Oppolzer, Canon der Puternisse, 'p. 232, and plate 115; compare Professor Kielhorn's note on this date in Ind. Ant., Vol. XXIII, p. 180, No. 102
Of the places mentioned in this record, Mirimji is the modern Winsj, tbe chief town of the Miraj State fourteen miles north-by-west from Khidrapur. Kudala-Lāmavāda is found in Dänwåd, the Danwar, Dánvád of maps, five and a half miles west-south-west from Klidrápůr, and at the confluence of the Krishna and the Dudhganga: the record shows that its lands originally extended on the north to the confluence of the Krishna and the Pafchganga. [My original suggestion, to identify this village with Kurundwad at the confuence of the Krishna and the Painbgangi, is enocelled: Kuro edwad 's the Kurundaka wbere the kashtukuta king Indra III was crowded, us recorded in the Baguirá plates of A.D. 915, Vol. IX above, pp. 38, 40). Jūguls and Sirigupps are the Joogul, Jugal' and 'Shirgoopee, Sirgupi' of maps, on the opposite bank of the Krishna from Khidrapur.
! See Mr. Courens' Revised Lists of Remains in the Tombay Presidency (1897), p. 286.
* This identification, with also the following two, was stated by me in Ind. And, Vol. XXX (1901), p. 871 (100 1150 Vol. XXXI, p. 395), but without the proof of its