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.
The pedigree of the Kalachurya dynasty given above is of importance as confirming those given by other records, on which see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 468 ff. We bave thus the definitive lineage:
Kannama (Karna, Krishņa)
Bijjala I
Rāja (Rajala)
Ammugi
Sankama I
Jógamas Permāļi (Hemmădi)
Bijjala II.
The date of the first series of endowments is given on 1. 56 as Saka 1093, Nandana; the amīväsye of Phalguna ; Sunday; an eclipse of the sun. This is irregular. Either the sake or the cyclic year must be wrong. On the former assumption the details are altogether false : on the latter hypothesis we arrive at more satisfactory results. If we substitute for Nandana the previous year, Khara, which actually corresponded to Saka 1093 expired, we find that the given tithi was current on Thursday, 27 January, A.D. 1172, ending about 1 h. 21 m. after mean sunrise. On this date there was actually & solar eclipse, occurring 1 h. 32 m. after mean sunrise (Indian Calendar, p. 122); and hence we may accept it, in spite of the discrepancy in the cyclic year and the week-day..
The geographical names mentioned are rather numerous. We have Kuntaļa (1. 8); the Tarikādu näd or county, in which Madagihā!, with probably the whole of Jat State, was included (11. 9, 30, 60, 69, 73, 77); Mangaļivēda (1.9); Kāļaijara (1l. 27-8); Māļige (ll. 31-2, 84, 55, 58, 78, 85), Sanskritised as Maļikā (1.51); Väsumbige (1. 58); Lõņāra (11. 59, 69-70); Koļanur (1. 69); Chendike-vetta, or " hill of Chandike" (1.70); Dongarigave (11. 71, 74); Sanambade (1.71); and the lists of countries in 11. 13-16, 21-2, 25. Mangalivēda may be safely identified with Mangaļvēdha in Sangli State ("Mungulvera" on the Indian Atlas), which lies in lat. 17° 31' and long. 75° 0'. Another form of the name is Marigalavēshtaka (Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 520); and although -vēshtaka looks like a Pandit's etymology, it is quite likely that we should spell the name here, as in other cases, as - tēdha. On Kaļäñjara see Dyn., p. 469. As to Mälige, see above, p. 317. There are two villages named Löņār in the neighbourhood of Madagihā!; the nearest is in lat. 17° 14', long. 75° 27'. Kolanär is not easy to identify.
It may be noted that the Jat inscription to which I have referred above (p. 317, n. 1) states that Kannama (whom it styles Kahnama) was the son of the Mahamandalösvara Assgarass, and omits to mention Bijjala I and Sankama I. Ita authenticity however is rather doubtful, though it can hardly be later than the 13th century: it refers itself to the 2nd year of the Chalukya-Vikrams era, the cyclic year Pingala, in the reign of Tribhuvanamalla (A.D. 1077-8), and at the same time to the reign of Bijjala II, which is impossible.
* The name Sandaraja given in Dys. Kanar. Diatr., p. 468, perhaps arises from the error of taking the relative verb sanda as a proper Dame.
+ This must be the Jógamarass mentioned in Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 448, as being "the lord of the Darikada [read Tarikadu] nad and the Mandaldfpara of Mangalavada [read Mangaļivida] " and a father-in-law of Vikramaditya VI. He is also mentioned in Ep. Carn. XI, Dg. No. 42 (p. 88), as Taļikada (resd Tapikada) Jógama. sripan.
• I have again to thank Mr. Sewell for checking my calculations.
In 1. 62 mention is made of 900 towns, which perbape denotes the extent of Tarikadu.
• It may be added that the modern town of Nidugul was also sometimes called Kaljana (Ann. Report of Mysore Arch. Dept., 1918, p. 21).