Epigraphia Indica Vol 06

Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 84

No. 6.1
THREE RECORDS IN THE BANGALORE MUSEUM.
established for the next in succession by the spurious Suradhenupura document. And it must be taken to be now cut down to A.D. 797, or earlier, by the subsequent assignment of this date to the next in succession.
Next after sripurusha-Muttarasa, Mr. Rice has placed his son, or alleged gon, sivamara II. He originally put him at some indefinite time between A.D. 813 and 869, placing him after the Chakiraja for whom the Kadaba grant purports to put forward a date in A.D. 813. He then allotted to him the date of " A.D. 804," as his initial date,- leaving the final date uncertain, - from the spurious Suradhënupura document. And he has now apparently carried him back to A.D. 797, if not earlier, from the sparious Manne grant, which mentions Lôkatrinetra-Marasimha as a son of Sivamara II., describes him as administering the whole of the Ganga province as Yuvarája, and gives a date in the month Âshadha, Saka-Samvat 719 (expired), falling in A.D. 797. Mr. Rice's suggestion is that Sivamâra II. was perhaps then a prisoner in the hands of the Rashtrakūtas, and that that is why this Marasimha is described as Yuvaraja in command of the whole Ganga country. With the additional name of Ereyappa,- Lokatriņôtra-Marasinga-Ereyappa,- this person is mentioned, again as Yuvaraja. in also another spurious grant, from Gañâm in the Seringa patam tåluka ;this record does not put forward any date.
Next after sivamara II., Mr. Rice has placed his alleged younger brother Vijayaditya, with any date up" to A.D. 869,"–this final date being necessitated by the initial date which be has proposed for the next ruler.
Next after Vijayaditya, he has placed Vijayaditya's alleged son Satyavákya-Rajamalla, with the proposed period " A.D. 869 to ? 893." Here, the initial date is based on the Biliúr inscription,10 which specifies the month Phâlguna, Saka-Samvat 809 (expired), falling in A.D. 888, as being in the eighteenth year of a Satyavákya, whose proper name, however, it does not disclose; and the final date is the initial date proposed for the next in succession. And to this Satyavákya-Rajamalla he has referred, in addition to the Biļiûr record of A.D. 888, the inscription at Husukůru, 11 which mentions the ruling prince both as Satyavákya and as Rajamalla, and gives for him the date of Saka-Samvat 792 (expired),= A.D. 870-71, without any details of the month, etc. This Husukuru inscription mentions also Butarasa-(Bütuga I.), who, it tells us, was then governing the Kongal nåd and Pûnad provinces as Yuvarája. And Bataraga is mentioned again in a fragmentary inscription at Chik-Kâti, which also refers itself to the rule of a Satyavákya, naturally identified by Mr. Rice with Rajamalla.
Next after Satyavákya-Rajamalla, Mr. Rice in 1894 placed a Nitimarga, whose proper name he did not then indicate, with the proposed period " A.D. P 893 to P 915,"13 to whom we shall revert directly. Since then, however, he has introduced the name of Raņavikramayya, an alleged son of Rajamalla the alleged son of Vijayaditya, - with the proposed date of " about A.D. 890," and with the suggestion that this Raņavikramayya may be the Batarasa-(Butuga I.) of the Hugukuru and Chik-Kați inscriptions, or may be someone else 14 The name of this
1 Coorg Insera. Introd, p. 4. Above, Vol. IV. p. 332.
Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Introd. pp. 3, 7. * Ep. Carn. Vol. IV. Introd. p. 9. - This Mappe grant has not been published yet. But I am able to quote it from photographs which Mr. Rice was kind enough to send me. $ Loc. cit. in note 4.
6 Ep. Carn. Vol. IV., Sr. 160. Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Introd. 7. # Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Intred. p. 8.
See Coorg Inscrs. Introd. p. 4. 20 . ant. Vol. VI. p. 102, No. 2 (Mr. Kittel's rendering), with a lithograph, aud Coorg Insors. p. 5 (MT. Rice's rendering).
11 Rp. Carn. Vol. III, Nj. 75.-I am dealing now, as on the previous occasion, with only the really important and useful records, mostly those which include personal names or dates, or which can by any other means be applied in a specific manner.
1 Ep. Carn. Vol. IV., Gu. 94. Ep. Carn. Vol. III Intr.d. p. 8. 1 Ep. Carn. Vol. IV. Introd. p. 11, and the Classified List after p. 89.