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INSCRIPTIONS AT NARENDRA : A, OF A.D. 1125.
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sre note; And Himyachala, to suit the metre, instead of the usual Himachala, 1. 90.-The orthography presents few points worthy of notice. The ancient letter ! is preserved only in negaldań (1.47), and elsewhere becomes before consonants (negarda-, 11. 15, 16, 3+, 64; negardda, I. 58; negardian, 11, 60, 66; negartteyam, l. 19; negartte, 11. 36, 65, 87; nörppadodu, l. 43; norppadan, 1. 54; pogartteyam, l. 72; garide, 1, 11%), and between Vuwels. The Sanskrit l between vowels becomes urally, but not invariably. Finalm oftea b.comes before vowels, as in l. 14; and intervocalic m in the case-ending - mai also may change to v. The upadhmaniya oocars in rajah-, l. 57, yasah. 1. 64, and antahpur., l. 83. A consonant is doubled before rin sur-addrige, 1. 54, dhattriyol, 1. 65, and vajjra, 1. 100. Initial p is changed to h in Halasige, 1. 85 (verse); but curiously enough we find in the prose portion, 1. 110, the ancient spelling Palasige.
The object of the inscription is to record grant of land made by the Kādamba Mahīmandalēsvara Jayakõsin II and his senior queen Maiļala-dēvi, the daughter of Jayakēģin's suzerain the Chalukya king Vikramāditya VI, for the maintenance of a temple of Siv: founded by a certain Dandanayalca Singaraga (also styled Singana or Simha) in Kundār, the modern Narendra. The inscription, after the prelude (verse 1) and a blessing upon the “Lord of the Western Ocean," :.e. the Kādamba ruler of Goa (verse 2), sketches the history of the Kādambas, beginning with their mythical origin from the sweat of Siva (verse 3). The first of them that it names is Chattaya-dēva (Shashthadēva), who took Kavadi-dvipa and many other provinces, made it is said) a bridge of ships to Ceylon, and imposed tribute on barbarians (verses 4-6); he sailed with great pomp from Gove to Surashtra (verse 7), and received in marriage a daughter of Mummuri of Thāneya with a rich do wer (verses 11-12).1 His son was Jayakēgin [I], who was also glorious and liberal (verses 13-14). Jayakësia fought against and overcamo seven potentates (verse 15), and gave his daughter in marriage to a neighbouring king named Permāļi (verser 16-17); he subdued Kirttiraja of Banavase, and transferred his glory (P) to Permādi (verse 18); and he repelled an assault by the Choļs king (verse 19). He had a valiant son, Gūvala-dēvas (verge 21), whose younger brother Vijayāditya in course of time became king (verse 22). The latter was succeeded on the throne by his son Jayakēsin [] (verses 23-25), to whom Vikramāditya (VI) gave his daughter Maiļala.dēvi in marriage (verses 26-33). Then begins the donor's pedigree : Lakshmana, or Lakshmarāja, was a high minister and Dandanāyaka in the service of Vikramaditya [VI], who gave him & commission in the household of his daughter Maiļala-dēvi (verses 36-7). Lakshmana had four sons, Bhavyarajat (who took to wife Gangā-dēvi), Soma, Lakshmana, and Singarasa (Singana or Simha). Singarasa married Maiļala-dövi (of course not the queen of that name), and begat Boppa-dēva (verses 38-56). He built a temple to Siva, styled Lakshmaņēsvara (apparently in honour of his father), on the southern side of Kundür, in the Halasige nad of the Kurtala kingdom (verses 58-62); and in the reign of Vikramāditya (VI), in Saka 1047, Jayakēģin and Mailala-dēvi, ruling over the nine-hundred of the Konkan, the twelve-thousand of Palasige (Halasige), the five-hundred of Payve, and the lakh and a quarter of Kavadi-dvipa, granted for the maintenance of this temple certain specified estates in Kundür and the neighbourhood (lines 93 to end).
The reading is quite closr, Thaneyada Mummuri (1. 16); and the name of Mummuri occurs again in the next line and verse, where he is styled a king. It would seem that we must take this as another variant of the name of Mummuņi or Mämväni, one of the Silahāras of the Northern Konkan, whose date was between A.D. 1026 and 1059, and who was therefore a contemporary of Chattaya-dēvs, and understand that Chattaya-dēvs on his voyage looked in at Thāņa or koine other of the Siläbära ports,
* This appears to be Kirttivarman II, son of Tailapa I, the Kādambe ruler of Hangal; he was governing Bapavāsi about A.D. 1070.
. Apparently Güvala-dēva did not reiga. See also below, p. 300. • This name corresponds to the Kanarese Bavayya.
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