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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No. 6.]
INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
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L. OF THE REIGN OF THE KALACHURYA SANKAMA.
The stone on which this record is engraved is on the eastern wall of the Math in Sadi belonging to the Karasthaladavaru fraternity (see above, p. 77). It does not appear whether the stone has any sculptures. The first line of the inscription seems to be on a band separate from that covered by the remainder, and occupies an area 2 ft. 4 in. wide and 2 in. high. The remainder covers an area 2 ft. 4 in. wide and 2 ft. 4 in. high; it is damaged and illegible at the base and the lower corner of the proper right, but is otherwise well preserved.-The character is Kanarese, of the upright and somewhat square type usual in the period. The letters are between in. and in. high. The special form for y appears in śreniy-, 1. 12; the anuevara is written indifferently as a small circle above the line and a large circle in the line. The language is throughout Old Kanarese, except for the introductory Sanskrit verse (1.1). The never appears (we have negalda in 11. 24 and 26). The word ippudu (11. 11, 12) is later in form than the cognate irddudu (1. 4). On anamna (1. 12) cf. above, p. 86.
The inscription was doubtless intended to record a grant to some religious establishment; but in its present mutilated form it contains only an historical introduction, and even that is incomplete. Its verses 10-13 however may be supplemented from the Ron inscription of the same reign, Saka 1102. After invoking Siva (v. 1) and poetically describing the Ocean (vv. 2, 3), Měru (v. 4), and the land of Kuntala (v. 5), it gives in prose the formal titles and birudas of the Kalachurya Sankama, to whose reign it refers itself (11. 14-18). These add little to the information already recorded in Dyn. Kan. Distr., pp. 469 and 486. It then comes to the Kisukaḍ naḍ (11. 18-19), and praises its ruler, the Sinda Mandalika Vikrama-děva (v. 6). His pedigree follows. There was a valiant Manḍalesvara named Acharasa [Achugi I of Yelburga], who was "like the embodied (? or wielded) sword-edge of king Vikrama," i.e. an efficient servant of Vikramaditya VI (v. 7). His brothers were Nakarasa, Simha [I], Dana, Dama, Chavunda and Chama; and Singarasa [II, the son of Achugi I,] begot the Mandalefvara Achugi [II] (v. 8). The last-named by Ma-devi begot Permaḍi-deva (v. 9) and Chavuṇḍa (v. 10). This Chavuṇḍa took as his queen Siriya-devi, who was daughter of the Kalachuri emperor Bijjala by Echala-devi and sister of Vajra-deva (v. 11); and she bore to Chavanda two sons, Bijjala and Vikkayya (v. 12). Vikkayya is identical with the Vikramaděva of v. 6; in v. 13, as supplemented from the Ron record, he is given the full name Vikramaditya.
There is little in these details that is not already recorded in Dyn. Kan. Distr., pp. 468 ff. and 572 ff., and especially pp. 477 and 576. We may note that the present record gives Dāna as the name of one of the younger brothers of Achugi I, whereas other inscriptions term him Dasa, and it seems to confuse Achugi's brother Singa I with the former's son Singa II. For a general survey of the Sinda family see my paper on the Kurgöd inscriptions (above, Vol. XIV, p. 268).
The only place-names mentioned are Kuntala (11. 14, 19), Kalamjara (1. 15), and Kisukaḍ (1. 19). The spelling Kalamjara, instead of the more regular Kalamjara, is perhaps connected with the other form Kalamjana which sometimes occurs (Dyn. Kan. Distr., p. 469, n. 5), and which is obviously a product of popular etymology from kala and añjana; possibly then Kalimjara represents a contamination of the original Kalamjara and Kälämjana.
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[Metres: Anushtubh, v. 1; Särdalavikridita, v. 2; Mahasragdhara, vv. 3, 5; Mattebhavikridita, vv. 4, 11-13; Kanda, vv. 6, 7, 9, 10; Champakamālā, v. 8.] 1 Om Namas-tumgas-chiras-chumbi-chandra-chamara-chārave arambha-mula-stambhaya Sambhava || [1]
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trailōkya-nagar
1 From the ink-impression.
2 Denoted by a spiral symbol.
Read tumga-siras-.