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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
D.-The Western Chalukyas of Kalyani and their Feudatories.1
140.-Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 167. Part of a Gadag Sanskrit and Kanarese inscription,2 recording the restoration of the W. Chalukya sovereignty by Taila II., the son of Vikramaditya IV. and Bonthâdêvi.- Taila destroyed some Rattas, killed [the Paramara] Muñja, took in battle the head of [the W. Ganga] Pañchala, possessed himself of the Chalukya sovereignty, and reigned for 24 years, beginning with the year Srimukha.
[Srimukha S. 895.]
(VOL. VII,
141.-8.002.-Supplied by Dr. Fleet (compare his Dynasties, p. 553). Date of a Sogal (in Belgaum district) Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Chalukya Taila II., and of his feudatory, the Ratta Kartavirya I.,5 lord of the Kundi country:
Sa (sa) ka-varsha 902neya Vikrama-samvatsarad-Ashaḍa (dha)d-amavasyey-Âdiv[âram] saryyagrahaça-nimittadol
The date is irregular as regards both the week-day and the eclipse.
142.-S. 902.-Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. X. p. 204. Saundatti Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Chalukya Tailapa (Taila II.), and of his feudatory, the Ratta Mahasamanta Santivarman (Santa), the son of Pittuga (who defeated Ajavarman, and) who was the son of Prithvirama:
(L. 34).-Sa(sa) kanripakål-âtita-samvatsara-satamga[1] 902neya Vikrama-samvatsarada Paushya (sha)-suddha-dasami Brihaspativârad-amdiu-uttarayana-sa (sa)mkramaṇado!.
Thursday, 23rd December A.D. 980; but the tithi which ended on this day was the 14th, not the 10th tithi of the bright half of Pausha; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 6, No. 147.
143.-S. 904.-Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 206. Nilgund inscription of the reign of the W. Chalukya Maharajadhiraja Tailapa Ahavamalla (Taila II., who defeated, amongst others, king Utpala), and of his feudatory Sobhana,8 the younger brother and successor of Kannapa (or Kennapa) :
(L. 17).-Sa (sa) kanripa-samvatsarêshu chaturadhika-navasatêshu gateshu Chitrabhanusamvatsarê Bhadrapada-måse stryya-grahanê sati.
20th September A.D. 982; a solar eclipse, visible in India.
144.-8. 911 (for 913).-Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 232; PSOCI. No. 86. Bhairanmaṭṭi Kanarese Sinda inscription. Date of the reign of the W. Chalukya Tailapayya (Taila II.), and of the Sinda Pulikala, born in the Nága race, lord of Bhogåvati,' a son of Kammara (Kammayyasa);—
(L. 4). Sa (sa)ka-varsha 911 Vikri (kri) tam-emba samvatsara pravarttise. (For a later date in the same inscription see below, No. 156).
1 These include (among others):
:
(a).-The Rattas; see Nos. 141, 142, 158, 163, 181, 189, 192, 193, 201, 220, 268-269, (and, of earlier inscriptions, No. 79).
().-The Sindas; see Nos. 144, 156, 189, 218, 224, 283, 234, 238, 248, 247 (and perhaps 258).
(c).-The Kadambas; see Nos. 147, 164, 168, 173, 210, 227, 235, 241, 242, 249, 254, 255, 260, 261, 262, 269,
270 (and below, Nos. 424 and 425).-For the early Kadambas see No. 602 ff.
(d).-The Pandyas of the Konkans and Nolambavadi (Nopambavadi); see Nos. 212, 219, 225, 231, 236,
238, 244, 248, 250, 251, 252.-For the Pandyas of Madhura see below, section N.
According to Dr. Fleet, of the time of the W. Chalukya Vikramaditya VI.; see his Dynasties, p. 426, note 3. Compare below, No. 828.
Sce Nos. 132 and 259, and compare Dr. Fleet's See below, No. 181.
I.e. the Paramira Muñja; see below, No. 150. altered Utpala to Utkala.
See below, No. 146.
Dynasties, p. 482.
⚫ See above, No. 79.
In my edition of the Nilgund inscription I have wrongly
Put on the stone about A.D. 1070.
