Book Title: Chronology of Gujarat
Author(s): M R Majumdar
Publisher: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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________________ MAITRAKA-GURJARA PERIOD 177 C. 653-54 C. 654 C. 655 655 655 the middle of the gth Century and the Paramāra Bhoja in the 11th Century. The poet was rich and liberal, and his wife Malhaņādevi also shared the generous instincts of her husband. Poet Māgha is placed in the latter half of the 7th century A.D.-(M. Krişnamachāri, Classical Sanskrit Literature, p. 154-57). The word ' agrahāra' has been applied to the grant of lands or villages to Brāhmaṇas, from very ancient times. -(EI, i, 88: grant of the Valabhi king Dhruvasena III in G. S. 334 i.e. 653-654 A.D.). The Sendraka Nikumbhalla-sakti, son of Aditya-śakti, was, reigning in the neighbourhood of Bagumrā (Southern Gujarat). He was a great devotee of the Sun-God.-( Bagumrā Plates, IA, XVIII, 265 ff.). Dharāśraya Jayasimhavarman, younger brother of the W. Calukya Vikramāditya I, ruled as his feudatory in Gujarat about this time, or somewhat later. Prithivivallabha-Nikumbhalla-sakti of the Sendraka family was ruling in the province of Lāța. (8th Aug. Cedi Sam. 406 = 655 A.D.)-(Bagumra Copperplate : IA., xviii, 265). Maitraka King Dhruvasena III granted to a Buddhist vihāra at Valabhi a village in Kāsahrada division of Khețaka , hāra. The details about the vihāra, the Dütaka, the Lekhaka and the date are not legible.- Valā Plates, JBBRAS, (NS) I 36 f. ] Maitraka king Kharagraha II (655-658 A.D.) succeeded his younger brother Dhruvasena III. Like Silāditya I, he was ardently devoted to the practice of Dharma and had won the second name' (apara-nāma) of Dharmāditya. After the overthrow of the Kalacuris, Pulakesin II divided their extensive kingdom among his relatives and trusted chiefs. Southern Gujarat extending from the Kim in the north to the Damangangā in the south was placed in charge of a Sendraka chief. The Sendrakas ruled over this country for three generations. Sendraka King Nikumbha Allaśakti of the Sendraka dynasty gave a religious grant of the village Balisā situated in Treyanna Āhāra, on the Full-Moon day of Bhādrapada in K. E. 406, (655 A.D.), Samvatsara-sata-catustaye şaďuttara Bhadrapada śuddha Pancadasyām, to Dikşita Bappasvāmin of Bhāradvāja gotra, resident of Vijayāniruddha-puri. The royal edict was executed by Māsambha and composed by his younger brother Devadinna, the Officer in charge of Peace and War.-(Bagumra Plates; IA ; XVIII 265). Nikumbha' was only a biruda prefixed to the name of Allaśakti as well as to his son Jayasakti also.-(V. V. Mirashi, CII, Vol. IV, Intro., lviii, fn.). The writer of the Maitraka king Kharagraha II (655-658 A.D.)'s grant has praised him very much by the Vyatireka (excellence) figure of speech ( in which 655 655 655-58 c23 Jain Education Interational For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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