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KALAS INSCRIPTION OF GOVINDA IV : SAKA 851.
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Chalukya race, unflinchingly laid him behind and protected him-the valour of the crestjuwel of feudatories, who drove into retreat and conquered the great feudatories who came at the coinmand of the universal emperor Gojjega--the strength of arm of Arikēsarin, who, bringing to ruin the emperor who confronted him in hostility, fittingly conveyed the universal empire to Baddegadēva, who came trusting to him-the vigour of the scatterer of troopa of foemen's elephants, who on his rut-blinded fiery elephant met and put to flight the champions of Bappuva, the younger brother of Kakkala, who came and bowed down, while the stately squadrons of furious elephants accompanying him made the earth shake—the unsurpassed might of the terrifier of hostile soldiers, who frightened other realms?"
With this may be compared another passage in the fourteenth āšväsa of the same poem, in the prose after v. 37:
Gojjigan-emba sakala-chakravartti maleye tanage saran-agatan-ada Vijayādityanam kāda ballaltanado! saran-agata-jalanidhiyum.
"An ocean to suppliants in the might with which he protected his suppliant Vijayāditya when Gojjiga the universal emperor contended (against the latter)."
The purport of these panegyrics is to tell us that Arikēsarin II was a powerful feudatory of Gojjiga, or Govinda IV; that Gojjiga quarrelled with another of his feudatories, a Chalukya named Vijayāditya, and the latter, finding himself unable to hold his ground alone, fled to Arikësarin; that Gojjiga then despatched or personally led an army against Arikësarin, which was defeated; that in consequence Gojjiga lost his throne (the text saggests that he actually perished), and Arikësarin caused the crown of the Rashtrakūtas to be given to Baddegadēva, otherwise known as Amoghavarsha III, & younger brother of Indraraja III; and that on another occasion Arikësarin was attacked by an army under Bappava, a younger brother of Kakkala, but defeated him and reduced him to submission. This Kakkals perhaps was the last of the Rashtrakata kings of Mālkhēd, otherwise known as Kakka II (who was of the next generation after Govinda IV), or perhaps was some slightly earlier acion of the same line, of whom, along with his brother Bappuya, no other mention has as yet been found.
TEXT. 1 Jayaty=āvishkritam Vishņor=vvārāham kshobhit-ärznavam (1") dakshin-Onnata
damshţr-āgra-vigrāṁta-bhuvana vapuh | [1] Mattēbhavikriditam || Jagati
chakrado!-[e]2 ydo varttisida bhupa[r]=mmunnam-int=ār=yvirodhigala Bidhisi virama
taledar-int-ar-yvirar-int=ārappogarttelte)g-adarpp=āda mahā-mahar=bbagevodu
embo!pam nijam-māļi 3 Gojjigadēvam negaldam dharādhipa-lalåmar Rashtrakut-ottamam || [2o1
Page-gond=iduva Šatru-bhūpatigala d or-ggaryvadimd=erid=agra-gajărndram
be
4 ras-ovad=Antakana bāgo! tanti mattaṁ saran-bugal=emd=irpp=&vaniśvara-pratatiyan
kai-kondu kād-eyda Gojjigadēvam Nri(npi)patumgan=emb=aļavan-old-am5 gikritar-midida [3] Saran-ayataran-eyde kādu munisim māyāntaram
komdu bērppa (Ipa)ran=utsähadināvegam tanipi balpu kärppum - 6 rppum nirantaram-oppal Rajatāchalēndra-Hara-hāg-ākasa-Gamgå-sudhākara-sat
kirttiyan=appu-key dan=adhikam fri-Vira-Nārāyana [ll 4]
See the edn. in Bibliotheca Carn., p. 840, L 7.
Bee Dynasties of the Kan. Distr., p. 380 f., and Ep. Ind. above, vol. VII, p. 84. . From the ink-impressions.
• Metro : Sloka (Apashtabb). • Metre : Mattēbhavikridita ; the same in verses 3-4.
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