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.
No. 6.--INSCRIPTIONS OF SUDI.
BY LIONEL D. BAENETT. Saidi, the ancient sindi, is now a village in the Ron taluka of Dharwār District, Bombay. It lies about nine miles east-by-north from Rom town, and is shown on the Indian Atlas sheet 58 (1827) as "Soodi," in lat. 15° 44' and long. 75° 543. In ancient times it was an important city; in the following records it appears as & rājadhani, or capital, of the Kisukād seventy under the Chålukyas of Kalyåņi.
The publication of the records of Sadi which are comprised in the following articles is based upon ink-impressions, the loan of which, together with other help, I owe to the unfailing kindness of the late Dr. Fleet. None of these inscriptions have yet been edited; but five of them are transcribed in the Elliot MS. Collection, namely Nos. (Elliot I. 37), F (I. 144), I (I. 305), J (I. 302), and K (II. 226). Ranging as they do from about 900 A.D. to the latter half of the twelfth century, they throw considerable light on the history of the town and of Kisukad. Nos. A, & record of a local foray about 9C0 A.D., and B, a mutilated deed of endowment a few years later, afford little positive information ; but the remainder give many historical data. Nos. C-E (1) were composed while Akkā dēvi, the sister of the Chāļukya Vikramaditya V, was administering Kisukād; is of Saka 932 (expired), or A.D. 1010, under Vikramāditya V; D of Saka 973 (current), or A.D. 1050, under Sõmēsvara I; E (1) of Saka 976 (expired), or A.D. 1054, in the same reign ; E (2), of Saka 980 (expired), or A.D. 1058, confirms a previous charter of Akkā-dēvi. F, dated Saka 981 (expired), or A.D. 1060, in the same reign, introduces a Mahasamantadhipati named Nāgadēve, who seems to have been then ruling over Kisukād. G contains two records, both of the reign of Sõmēsvara II; the first, dated Saka 991 (expired), or A.D. 1069, tells us that at that time Kisukad was governed by Singaņa dēva, while the second, of Saka 997 (expired), or A.D. 1075, meutions a Dandanayaka whose name seems to be Kottimayya, and who possibly succeeded Singana-dēva in the government of the province. In H there are three separate records : the first is of Saka 996 (expired), or A.D. 1075, ander Somēśvara II ; the second is of about the same period; and the third, belonging to the reign of Vikramāditya VI, introduces a certain Chākayya as karana of Kisukad. Nos. I-K all belong to the reign of Vikramāditya VI; I is dated in year 9 of the Chalukyn-Vikrama era, or A.D. 10847 and mentions the senior queen Lakshmā dēvi as reigning at Kalyāṇa and granting a town in the province; in J, of the same year, Kisukād seems to be under the rule of the Dandanāyaka Srivallabha; and in K, dated in the 38th year of the same era, the province is administered by a branch of the Bāli-vamsa, a grant being made by the Mahāsāmanta Dadigarasa. L brings ns to the reign of the Kaļachurya Sankama, when Kisukād was under the control of Vikrama-dēva or Vikkayya, a scion of the Sinda dynasty of Yelburga.
A. A VIRAGAL. This inscription is on a stone buried in the field of Guļappå bin Ayyappa, in Survey Number 139. The stone, as is commonly the case with monuments of the kind, is adorned with sculptures in four tiers. On the lowest tier is figured the hero, bow in hand, facing towards the proper right against a hostile army represented by an elephant and two borses with their riders, while on the other side are a horseman and two figures apparently bearing umbrellas. On the tier above this we see the hero being conveyed to paradise by two celestial nymphs with chowries; and on the tier above this is a seated figure (Indra ?) with a chowry-bearer at each side. The uppermost tier shews in the centre a liriga on an abhisheka-stand, with a seated boll on the proper left. The inscription occupies five lines of about 2 ft. 2 in. in width. The characters are Kanarese, from in. to 1 in. in height; for the most part they are well preserved,