Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

Author(s): Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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SPURIOUS ISLAMPUR PLATES OF VIJAYADITYA.
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find guperfluous syllables in 11. 24 and 34. The Upadhmaniya is used in one place, in -rajahpavitri-, 1. 9, but not in the other places where we would expect it. Note also the spelling Taitriya- for Taittiriya-, 1. 55.
The individual letters have morally been well cut. Occasionally however we find misshaped forms; compare the ri in -korigani-, 1. 26; the vă of -vdrana-, 1. 36.
The language is fairly correct. There are however some mistakes and slips. Compare the forms waktrikufalo, 1. 6; vaktriprayoktsiktsalo, I. 22, and the Kanarese termination of the numeral trimsattu, 1. 55.
In common with the other sparions grants, the present one also describes Sripurusha as the grandson of Sivamira, though we know from the Vallimalai inscription that he was his son.
As has already been stated by Dr. Fleet, the fact that these grants are forgeries does not preolude the possibility that they may contain some historical facts. Dr. Fleet has discussed the various details mentioned in them in his paper on the Sați plates, and the grant here under consideration does not add much new information. The first of the Ganga kings, whose existence is known from authentic records, is the Maharaja Kongapi Sivamára with the biruda Navakāma, whom Dr. Fleet places in the period about A.D. 755-765. It has already been remarked that the Maharaja Pfithivikongaņi Sripurusha, who is in the spuriong plates described as his grandson, was in reality his son. According to Dr. Fleet, his time is about A.D. 765-805. We know from genuine inscriptions that he also had the name Muttarasa. We learn from 1. 48 that he had a queen Vijayamahădēvi of the Chalikya family. If this statement is correct, we can only think of the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengl. In itself this is not at all unlikely. We know that the Ganga's had been dependent on the Western Chalukyan, and the family can scarcely have lost all its prestige with them on its overthrow at the hands of the Rashtrakutas. Moreover, the Eastern Chalukya king who was contemporary with Muttarasa, was Vishộuvardhana IV. (763-799), who was the father of Vijayaditya II. and the son of Vijayāditya I. The name Vijayamabadevi wonld be a very likely one for a Chälakys princess of those days, who would then probably have been
sister of Vishộuvardhana. Mattarasa's eldest son was apparently Sivamāra II, who was 80 called after his paternal grandfather, but who is not mentioned in our grant. His younger brother, the son of Vijayamahadevi, who wore the name of his mother's father Vijayāditya, is the supposed grantoo of our plates. This Vijayaditya is not an invention of the forger or forgers who are responsible for the sparious Ganga grants. His name occurs in an insoription at Åsandi in the Kadür district, bat we do not know much about him. He probably resided at Asandi, now & village in the Kadar Tsalluqa of the Kadür District, Mysore, situated in 13° 42' N. and 76° 6' E., 5 miles from Ajjampar railway station This place is stated to have been his residence in 1: 54, and the grant parports to have been issued in his 30th year. That does not however help us to establish the date intended, becauso nothing prevents as from assuming that he ruled in Asandi as viceroy under his father.
The objects of the grant were two plots of land, a house, and something else in the neighbourhood of Åsandi. I cannot make anything of Satprasida in 1. 58. The donee was
Ep. Ind., vol. IV, pp. 140 1. 1 Ep. Ind., Vol. III, pp. 164ff. • Boe Fleet, Ep. Ind., Vol. V, pp. 154 ft.; Vol. VI, pp. 64 ft. • OP Fleet, Ep. Ind., Vol. V, p. 167. . See Fleet, Ep. Ind., Vol. V, pp. 180 f. • Ep. Carn., Vol. VI, Kd., 146; Fleet, Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, p. 36.