Epigraphia Indica Vol 15

SR No.: 032569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 478
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XV.
broken down in the stress of the war with the Cholas, doubtless ke famous conflict which culminated in the battle of Koppam in A.D. 1052, when Sömesvara I was defeated by the army of Rajadhiraja Chola I, who perished in the fight. The articles of the constitution which follow refer to the fiscal arrangements for the estates and to penalties for assaults; in the midst of the latter the record breaks off.
The details of the date (1. 10) are: Saka 973, corresponding to the cyclic year Vikrita;.. the 13th of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha; Sunday. On this I am indebted to Mr. R. Sewell for the following observations: "There were two Jyeshthas in that year, (i) adhika and (ii) nija. (i) For adhika-Jyeshtha: by both the Arya-siddhanta and Surya-siddhanta 18 sukla Jyeshtha began 19 h. 12 m. after mean sunrise on Sunday, 6 May, A.D. 1050. So, properly speaking, the 13 śukla tithi was coupled with Monday, 7 May, as being current at sunrise on that day. But it was current for 4 h. 43 m. late on the Sunday night. (ii) For nijaJyeshtha 13 sukla was current at mean sunrise on, and was coupled with, Wednesday, e June, A.D. 1050. It began 55 m. by the Arya-siddhanta, 51 m. by the Sarya-siddhanta after mean sunrise on Tuesday, 5 June. Probably therefore the date was in adhika-Jyeshtha, though it is not quite perfect. The mean 13th tithi of adhika-Jyeshtha began 1 h. 42 m. after mean sunrise on Monday, 7 May, 1050; it could not be connected with the previous Sunday."
The places mentioned are: the Kisukaḍ seventy (11. 7, 23), the Torugare sixty (1.7), the Māsavāḍi hundred-and-forty (1. 8), Pannāleya-kōte (1. 9), and Karagambaḍu (1. 19). The first of these has been fully discussed in Dr. Fleet's note "The Kisukâd seventy district" in I. A., Vol. XXX (1901), pp. 259 ff. Pannāleya-kote, also known as. Pannāle-durga, Pranalaka-durga, and Padmanala-durga, is Panhala, some twelve miles north-west of Kolhapur. The Masavādi district is located by the fact that it contained Dambal, the ancient Dharmapura; see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 465. That of Torugare has not been identified.
1 Om Svati Samasta-bhuvan-&éraya Ses-Pri(prithvi-vallabha maharaj[dir].
2 ja paramesvara paramabhaṭṭärakam Satyaaraya-kula-tilakam Cha[u]
3 ky-abharanam śrimat-Trailōkyamalla-dövara vijaya-rajyam-attar-o[ttar-a]
4 bhivriddhi-pravarddhamanam-a-chamdr-arkka-taram saluttam-ire | Svasty-Ari-nripa
[maku).
TEXT.
5 paghatita-charaş-Aravindayar-Ggang-enkna-pavitreyar-ddin-Anitha-chinta[map]
6 vivaka-chüḍāmanigal-ska-väkyeyar-ggunada bedamgiya[r-appa]
7 śrimad-Akka-dēviyar-Kkisukaḍ-elva(lpa) ttumam Torugarey-aruva[ttu]
8 mam Māsavāḍi nura-nālvattumam dashta-nigraha-visishta-pratipala [nadim]
9 sukha-samkatha-vinodadind-alattam-ire Pannāleya-kōteya nele-vidino [1]
10 Sa(sa)ka-varsha 973neya Vikrita-samvatsarada Jeshtha sn (sa)ddha 13 Aditya
vāra
11 śriman-mane-verggade Kalidasayya tamtrapala Millayya tamtrapala Chittimayya [*]
The term used is Cholikara praghattakadim. The word praghaffaka is explained in dictionaries as a rule, mode of treatment, and the like; but this will not suit the present context, which demands the meaning of "conflict" or something of the kind.
On the spelling of this name see n. 6 below. From the ink-impression.
The crossbar of the r on the right side is prolonged in an by the inscription E (1), 1. 9, which has a distinct subscripts. ef. below, inscription F, I. 20.
See Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 846. Denoted by the chakra symbol.
upward curl; that it must be read as yw is proved Hitherto the name has been given as Toragare