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KHAREPATAN PLATES OF RATTARAJA.
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Alyapadeva is said to have been kept on the throne by the aid of Anantadêva's ancestor Aparajita; but, as Aparajita was reigning in Saka-Samyat 919, that Aiyapadêya must have lived about 200 years after the Aiyapardja of the present inscription. Considering that our grant is dated in Saka-Samvat 930=A.D. 1008-9, and that the succession of the ten chiefs in every one was from father to son, it has been rightly assumed that the founder of this family, [8a]paphulla, who first took plaession of the country between the sea and the Sahyadri range, lived in the second half of the 8th century A.D., and that, therefore, the king Krishna whose favour he enjoyed, can only have been the RÅrhţrakūta Krishna I. who ruled in the third quarter of the same century.- Of the places mentioned, Valipattana, Chandrapura and Chêmülye, the last has been identified with Chêival.(Chêul or Chaul), an ancient town on the coast, about thirty miles south of Bombay, of which a fall account is given in the Bombay Gasetteer, Vol. XI. p. 269 ff. Here it will be sufficient to state that Chêmülya is mentioned in the Khårépatan plates of Anantadêva, as belonging to the Konkan group of 1400 (villages] which was held by the Northern Bilaras; and that, according to Mas'udi, who visited the town
-called Saimir by him- early in the 10th century, it was then under the government of a prince Djandja, 1.8. Jhanjha, one of the Bilåras of the Northern Konkan. These references show that the rulers of Chêmúlya, who in our inscription are reported to have been aided by Avasara (11.), most probably were Bilkras of the northern branch of the family. Valipattana is shown by the passage, quoted on page 294 above, note 6, to bave been situated, like Chêmulya, on the coast ; and the prominent manner in which it is mentioned in this inscription would seem to indicate that it was the capital at any rate of the earlier SilAras. The late Mr. Telang felt inclined to identify it with the Baltipatna of Ptolemy and Palaipatmai of the Periplús;' but this, oven supposing it to be correct, would not help us to identify the place. I myself cannot suggest any probable identification, nor can I identify Chandrapura, which also was situated near the sea, as is shown by line 57 of our inscription, and was apparently the principal town of the Chandra-mandala, conquered by the chief Bhima.
The proper object of the insoription is stated in lines 33.61. Here the Mandalika, the glorions Rattaraja, who meditates on the Paramabhaffaraka Mahdrdjadhiraja, the glorious Satyasrayadeva, informs the towns-mon and country people and the chief ministers belonging to him, that,...when the years from the time of the Saka king were nine hundred and thirty, on the full-moon tithi of Jyaishtha of the current year Kilaka, he gave, as a reward of learning, to the learned preceptor, the holy  trêya, - a bee clinging to the lotuses, the feet of his preceptor, the holy Ambhôjasamhbhu, who had dispelled the darkness of ignorance by the sun of trae knowledge, come to him through a series of preceptors of the Karkaroni branch of the famous Mattamayûra line (or school of ascetica); who by intense self-mortification had destroyed every worldly attachment; who by the light of wisdom had revealed the way to heaven and final beatitude, and had secured fame in the three worlds by the acquisition of profound meditation, for the purposes of worshipping with five-fold offerings the holy god Avvêsvara and keeping his shrine in proper repair, and of providing
See No. 37 above. . See Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 86. . See ibid. Vol. XIII. p. 827, and Vol. VIII. p. 145
* According to the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XI. p. 846, Baltipatna (or Palaipatmai) would probably be the village of PAIA, about two miles north-west of Mahed in the Klaba district; but this identification seeins to be very doubtful
In the original the word soudkydta is used by itself, instead of the ordinary pdd-dandaydla; se Dr. Fleet'. Gupta Inscription, p. 17, note 2.
• If the reading in line 48 should be intended to be purasaran (see page 800 below, note 11), the sense would be that Rattarkja, after worshipping with fire-fold offerings the holy god Arvesvara, gave to Âtrêya, for the purposes of keeping (the god's shrine) in proper repair, etc.
