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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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son Kirttivarman III (1. 24); his son Taila I (1. 24); his son Vikramaditya III (1. 24); his son Bhima (II) (1.25); his son Ayyaņa (I), who married a daughter of the Rashtrakūta king Krishna III (1.25); their son Vikramaditya IV, who married Bonthāļēvi, daughter of king Lakshmaņa of Chodi (1.26); their son Taila II, who conquered the Rashtrakūtas Karkara and Ranastambha, rostored the fortunes of his dynasty, and married Jakabba, daugliter of the Ratta Bhammaha (1. 28); their son Satyāśraya II (1. 36); his younger brother Dasavarman, who married Bhagyavati (1. 36); their son Vikramaditya V, who reigned after his father's elder brother (1. 37); Vikramaditya's younger brother Jayasimha II, styled Jagadēkamalla and Mallikāmōda (11. 39, 40); his son Āhavamalla (Sõmēsvars I), who made his power felt by the kings of the Malava and Chola lands and Kanauj (1. 43); his son, the renowned Bhuvanaikamalla (Sõmēsvara II), (1. 49); and finally the latter's younger brother, Vikramāditya VI, Rtyled Tribhuvanamalla (1. 54), the donor of the present grant, who made successful expeditions ad imposed his authority upon a Dravidian king.
Some points in this pedigree may be here briefly noticed; they are discussed more fully by Dr. Fleet in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVI, p. 17 ff. The statement on 11. 20-21 that Satyāśraya I, i.e. Palakesin II, was followed by a son Nedamari and the latter's son Adityavarman is not corroborated by earlier records, and is a pare mistake : Vikramiditya I, who is here said to be the son of Adityavarman, was really the son of Satyaśraya I, and Adityavarman was one of his brothers: there was no Nedamari in the line at all. Yuddhamalla's name is given more correctly in the early inscriptions as Vinayaditya. The disaster in the reign of Kirtivarman II, mentioned in l. 23, in which " the fortunes of the Chalukyan empire vanished", is a reference to the conquest by the Rashtrakāta Dantidurga or Dantivarman II, abont A.D. 754. The power of the dynasty was not thoroughly re-established until the reign of Taila II, A.D. 973-97. It would hence seem that the statements of the present pedigree regarding the kings from the first to the second Taila, covering a period of about two centuries, are defective; probably there is a gap before Tails I. Daśavarman (who is named Yasovarman in the Kauthern grant, Ind. Ant., XVI, pp. 15 ff.) does not seem to have ever reigned ; and Vikramāditya V, who is here said to be his son, but in an inscription at Harihar, and perhaps also in one at Diggávi', is called a son of Satyaśraya II, may have been reatly a child of Daśavarman adopted by Satyaśraya as his successor.
Verse 37, on line 42, contains & play on words which is noteworthy: speaking of Jayasinha II, it says:-"Mallikāmoda is very illustrious in the land of Kuntala, which is famous for the (river) Kộishṇavarnā and has a loyalty arising from affection for Taila [II];" and secondarily :"A fragrance of jasmine strongly pervades a braid of hair which has the famous [black] hue of Krishna and a smoothness caused by sesam-oil.” On this verse Dr. Fleet gives me the following remarks :-"For Mallikāmoda," fragrant as jasmine", as a biruda or secondary name of Jayasimha II, see (1) Pāli, Sanskrit, and Old-Canarese Inscriptions, No. 155, of A.1). 1035, line 6; Epi. Cars., vol. 7, Shimoga, Sk. 126; (2) PSOCI, No. 153, of A.D. 1038, line +; Sk. 157; (3) Sk. 24, of A.D. 1031 (not in PSOCI); (4) PSOCI, No. 154, of A.D. J019, line 4 ; Sk. 125; edited in Ind. Ant., vol. 5, p. 15 : here, by some unaccruntable carelessness, the prenm ble of the record mentions Taila Il as the reigning king, and so a-signs to him this and other birudus (3ārpade-Bhima, Choyrakālīnala, Chaurāņa - Sahasrabūkius, Kõlanda-Rāma, etc.) which belonged properly to Jayasinha II. Another inscription, PSOCI, No. 160, of A.D. 1071, (apparently not in Epi. Carn., vol. 7, thongh it is in Mysore Inscriptions, p. 164), mentions in
On the name Ranastamblis see Epi. Iwl.. Vol. VI. additions and corrections.
? See Dr. Pleet's Dynasties of the lanaresc Districts, in the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, vol. 1 Partii, p. 334, note 3.
