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BILHARI-CHEDI INSCRIPTION.
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Was by Lakshmanaraja likewise dedicated to Someśvara (verses 59-63). His son was Samkaragaņa (verse 64), and the younger brother of this prince was Yuvarajadeva (verse 67). Nothing of historical importance is recorded of either of these two brothers. We have then here presented to us the following line of Chedi princes :(1.) Kokkalladeva; supported Kệishộardja in the south and Bhojadeva in
the north. (2.) His son Mugdhatunga; wrested Fali from the lord of Kosala. (3.) His son Keyüravarsha-Yuvarajadeva; married Nohala, the daughter
of the Chaulukya Avanivarman. (4.) Their son Lakshmaņardja; defeated the king of Kosala and worshipped
Someśvara in Gujarat. (5.) His son Saṁkaragana.
(8.) His younger brother Yuvarajadeva.
Reserving a full account of the history of the Chedi rulers for a future oecasion, I will only state here that I agree with Sir A. Cunningham in assigning the Kokkalla. deva of this inscription to the end of the ninth century A. D., and in distinguishing him from Kokalladeva, the son of Yuvarajadeva and father of Gångeyadeva, of other Chedi inscriptions, who must have lived about 100 years later. For there can be no doubt that the Křishnaraja and Bhojadeva, who are spoken of as his contemporaries, are the Rashtrakata Krishna II., whom we know to have married a daughter of Kokkalla." and who reigned from about A. D. 875 to about A. D. 911, and Bhoiadeva of Kanauj, for whom we have the dates A. D. 862, 876, and 882, and who had ceased to reign in A. D. 903. And considering this point to be certain, I feel no hesitation in assigning our inscription to about the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century A.D.,-a period to which it may be assigned also on palæographical grounds.
There are still one or two points in our inscription which may here be drawn atten. tion to. The account of the sages who are mentioned in connection with the prince Lakshmanaraja opens by glorifying a place Kadambaguha (verse 48), and mentions a prince, named Avanti, who apparently made over to one of the sages a town which was perhaps called Mattamayara. These and one or two other) names occur also in an inscription at Ranod, which has been edited in the Jour. 48. Soc. Beng. yol. XVI, p. 1080, but which must remain useless for the elucidation of the present inscription until it has been edited properly. Besides, we find towards the end of our inscription, between verses 83 and 84, the names of the towns Tripuri, Saubhagya. pura. Lavananagara, Durlabhapura, and Vimanapura (R), the inhabitants of which would seem to have had to contribute towards the support of the temple founded by Nohala. Of these towns, which no doubt all belonged to the Chedi kingdom, Tripurt has been identified with the village of Tewar near Jabalpur, and Saubhagyapurn probably is the town of Sohagpur in the Hoshangabad District; the others I am unable to iden. tify. And lastly, it may be pointed out that verse 86 contains a curious reference to the poet Rajasekhara, whom in my account of the Siyudoni inscription I have shown to have flourished at the beginning of the tenth century A.D. The manner in which
See Fleet, Dynasties of the Kanare Districts, pp. 17 and 36-36. . See ante, p. 171.
