Epigraphia Indica Vol 22

SR No.: 032576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1933
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XXII.
inscription1 of the fifth year (1067 A.D.) of his reign gives us a more detailed information. It states that having moved (his camp), he declared :- (We) shall not return without regaining the good country of Vengai, which (we had formerly) subdued. You, (who are) strong, come and defend (it) if (you) are able!"-That army... . which had for its chiefs Jananathan, the Dandanayaka Rājamayan, whose mast elephants trumpeted in herds, and Mupparasan.'
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Jananatha, referred to above, is in all probability identical with Jayasimha, who was at that time on the throne of Dhara3. Others, mentioned, seem to have been officers of Vikramaditya. In the latter part of his reign, Jayasimha had to encounter a catastrophe, which was more severe than the previous one. After the death of Sōmesvara I, his son, Somesvara II, ascended the throne of Kalyani in 1068 A.D. He soon entered into a quarrel with his younger brother Vikramaditya. When the Chalukya empire was threatened with a fratricidal war, Jayasimha turned against Sōmesvara II, and probably intrigued with Vikramaditya for the overthrow of the Chalukya king. This seems to have provoked Sōmēsvara to declare war against Mälava. He made an alliance with the Chaulukya Karna (A.D. 1063-1094), the successor of Bhima on the throne of Gujarat, for the destruction of the Paramāra sovereignty, and in order to help him in his military operation despatched his general Ganga Udayaditya, and his feudatory, the Hoysala Ereyanga, with a large contingent. Jayasimha made a strenuous effort to defend his kingdom against this incursion of Karna and the Karpatas but utterly failed. In the fierce battle that followed he lost his life, and Malava was easily conquered by the invaders. During this cataclysm Udayaditya, a scion of a junior branch of the Paramara family, who was probably a subordinate chief in the Bhilsa District, drove the invaders from Mälava with the help of the Chahamana Durlabha III, king of Sakambbari, and himself became the king of the country."
The Nagpur stone inscription, dated 1104 A.D., composed by Udayaditya's son Naravarman, describes Udayaditya as the 'bandhu' of Bhoja. The inscription under discussion states that Bhoja was the pitrivya' (father's brother or cousin; or any elderly male relation) of Jagaddeva, son of Udayaditya.
Critical examination of these two evidences leads me to suggest that Udayaditya was not the brother of Bhoja but a cousin. This gains support from an inscription of the 15th century, which records Gōndala and Suravira as the father and grand-father respectively of Udayāditya. The last known date of Udayaditya is 1086 A.D.
The Ras Mala' relates that Oodayadit had two wives, one belonging to the Solunkhee dynasty and the other to the Waghela clan. By the Solunkhee queen he had a son named Jug Dev, and by the Waghela queen another son named Rindhuwul. Prince Jug Dev was an intrepid warrior, and his fame as a general spread all over India. He had three wives. The first was the daughter of Raja Raj, the Dak Chowra king of Took-Toda, which, since Raja Raj himself was blind, had
1 Ibid., p. 69.
This is addressed to the king who held Vengi.
[Mr. K. V. Subrahmanya Ayyar is of opinion that there is no warrant to take Jananatha figuring in inscriptions of Virarajendra as the king of Dhärä (above, Vol. XXI, p. 226, n. 3 and p. 242 and n. 2).-Ed.]
Vikramanka-charita, Introduction, p. 33, ed. by Bühler.
Above, Vol. II, p. 185; Mysore Inscriptions, p. 164; E. C., Vol. V, Ak, No. 120a; Vol. VII, Sh, No. 64; Vol. IV, part II, p. 19; Sömêévara's Surathotsava, kavi-prasasti, v. 20; Prithviraja-vijaya, Sarga V, vv. 76-78; above, Vol. I, p. 236; author's History of the Paramara Dynasty, pp. 127-132.
Above, Vol. II, p. 185.
J. A. 8. B., Vol. IX, p. 549.
Ibid., 1914, p. 241.
Forbe's Ras Mala, Vol. I, pp. 117 ff.