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.
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III. From manuscripts presented to the Varendra Research Society of Rajshahi by Pandit sasisekhara Siddhanta and Sambhunătha Mukutamani. Language corrupt Bengali :
"Adi-süra räjāra sargārohanah saptama purushantarë daitrakule janmilena Vallala-sēnah."
"The ascent of king Ādi-fira to heaven ; after seven generations Vallála-bena was born in the line of (the) daoghter's son."
IV. From the same lot of manuscripts :
“Adi-fūra rājāra sargrarohanal || Brārhmanadigēra saptama purusha jāyah rajara saptama purusha jayah raja jugya pătra paya nā je yavisëka kariya raja kareh I kichhu küla antara dahitra santānēta jarnmilēna Valvala-sena."
“The ascent of king Adi-süra to heaven. Seven generations passed of the Brahmanas, seven generations from the king passed. The King (?) does not get & proper person to be made king after anointment. After some time Vallala-sēna was born from a daughter's son (i.c. of the royal line)."
It is certain that the information supplied by three out of these four works is anreliable. We know that Vallála-sena himself was the daughter's son of a Sāra king. Therefore Manuscripts Nos. I, III, IV are unreliable, because he was neither born of a daughter's son of a Śara prince nor was he born in a line descended from a daughter's son of the same family. Manuscript No. II is reliable, as it mentions that Vallâla-sēna himself was a daughter's son of the prince, who was seventh in descent from Adi-sora. We are assured from the Barrackpur grant of the truth of the first portion of this statement, though the second half still requires confirmation. We learn from verse 8 that from Vilasa-Dévi was born Vallala-söna. The grant was issued from the victorious camp of Vikrama-pura. The donor was the Paramės vara Paramabhattaraka Mahārājādhiraja, the devout worshipper of Mahēsvara, the illustrious Vijaya-sēna, who meditated on the feet of the illustrious Mahārājadhiraja Hemanta-sēna. The object of the inscription was to record the grant of a piece of land measuring four pățakas, measured by the nala of Samatata, and producing two hundred puräna-worth kaparddakas, which was partly bounded on the north-west by the Tikshahanda marsh (jala), with its four well-known boundaries, in the village of Ghasa-sambhoga-Bhattavad, in the Khadi vishaya of the Paundravarddhane bhukti, to Udayaksradēva-barman, the son of Bhaskaradėva-farman, the grandson of Rabaskaradáva-sarman, the great-grandson of Ratnakaradova-sarman of Käntijoogi, who had migrated from the Middle Country (Madhya-data). The donee belonged to the Våtsya götra. His pravaras were Bhargava, Chyavans, Apna vina, Aurva and Jamadagni (Jamadagnya). He was a student of the six Angas and belonged to the Afvalāyade branch of the Rig-vēd. The grant was made inside the palace (upakärika) at Vikrama-pura as the dakshina of the Homa performed by Udayakara, on the occasion of the Golden Tulapurusha gift performed by the Mahadevi (Queen) Vilása-de vi, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse (sõma-graha). The dataka of the grant was one saláddaniga (Salādhyanāga), and it was dated the 7th of Vaisakha of the 32nd year of the King's reign.
Vijaya-sena is better known to us than any other Söna king on account of the detail supplied by his Deopårå stone inscription. He is mentioned as having made war upon, or defented, a number of his neighbours. la spite of these synchronisms his date is far from Settled as yet. He made war upon four princes, named Nanya, Vira, Vardhana and Raghava, and attacked the king of Gauda. Nãnya has been identified with Nanya-deva, the founder of the Karnataka dynasty of Mithila; but the other three still remain unidentified. We do
Bharati, 38th year 1922 (B.S.), pp. 947-48. Above, Vol. 1, p. 314, V. 20.
* Above, Vol. I, p. 307. • Ibid, v. 20.