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Buddhavarasa is no fiction. This however does not affect the argument regarding the genuineness of the Sanjan plates. If we suppose, as I think we must, that they were drawn up at all events not long after the date they mention, it would be natural for the forger to insert real names and not fictitious ones.
Buddhavarass states that he was the younger brother of Palakësin II, and styles himself rājan. Now we know that there was aboat the same time another Chalukya who held sway in the same part of the country, viz. the Gujarat Chalakya Sryāśraya Siladitya, of whom we POSSess two grants, dated in A.D. 669 and 691 respectively. The former has been edited by Professor Hultzschl and contains the information that the grantor, the yuvarāja Sryiśraya Miladitya, was the son of Dharāśraya Jayasińhavarman, the younger brother of Vikramāditya 1. About Dharaśraya we only learn that his "power had been increased by his elder brother." Śryāśraya was residing at Navasärikā, the present Nausāri, where the plates were found. The latter grant, which comes from Surat, was pablished by Bhagvānlal Indrāji. Professor Hultzsch has shown that Śryasraya Silāditya must have held sway over a province that included Navasärikā. The villages granted by him were Agattigrāma, Karmaņēga, Osumbhala and Alläraka. Of these Asaţtigrāma is the present Astgām, seven miles east-south-east-south from Nausārt; Kärmaņoya is the present Kamrēj, 72° 8' E. and 21° 18' N.; Osumbhala is the present Umbhel, 73° 1' E. and 21° 11' N., and Alluraka the present Alură, 73° 5' E. and 21° 12' N. There is accordingly no objection to assuming that another Chalukya prince at the same time ruled over a province in the present Thani District.
In such circumstances I think we are justified in making use of the historical information contained in the Sanjān grant, and even the attribution of the name Kokkuli to Vikramaditya I may very well be justified, if we remember that the name Kokkili recurs in the genealogy of the Eastern Chalukyas.
The genealogy of the Western Chalukyas, as given in the grant, carries us back to the Paramēsvara Satyāśraya Pulakēģin (II) Prithivivallabha, who had conquered Harsha-Dēva, the king of Northern India (Uttarāpatha). His son was Prithivivallabha, the Rajadhiraja Paramēšvara Jayasri Kokkuli Vikramāditya, the Mahārāja; and the younger brother of his father was the Rājan, the Paramamāhēśvara Madanamgāśraya (or, Srimad-Anangāšraya), the glorious Buddhavarasa, by whom the present grant purports to have been issued. He claims to have conquered the terrible four-tusked elephants of the lord of the gana of the Achhatyana or Natyana. I do not kuow what to make out of this name.
We further learn that Buddhavarasa, being in good health, while residing in Pinuka, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on the new moon day of Pausha, during the reign of Vikramāditya I, grants to Sagalasvamin Dikshita, the son of the Chaturvēdin Rēva, a resident of Kalvivana, of the Hariti götra, the Taittiriya sākha, proficient in the various sāstras of the Hirapyakēbins, Mahindārama and Ambārā raa in the twelve-village-district (Dvādaga grāmi) in Avaranta (Aparānta), at the sea-shore, and further the plots of Sēdiva and Malla, the LAVAnivaunda and Varasigila. The name of the village to which these plots belonged has been lost. We may however perhaps supply the name Mātfidinnagrāma from 1. 23. To the north and west it was bounded by the sea. To the east some localities are mentioned, which I cannot identify, viz. Viyadi, Uddhaváli (or Uddhavälika), Kanakochară (or Nakochara), Tatayika, and the eastern boundary, the Vyåghratataka.
Mr. Jackson has identified Pinuks with the present Pen, the chief town of the Taluka of the same name in the Kolaba District, situated at 18° 44' N. and 73° 6' E., and Kalvivana with
1 Ep. Ind., Vol. VIII, pp. 229 ff.
Verhandlungen der VII. Internationglen Orientalisten-Congressos, Wien, 1888, Arische Section, pp. 811 ,
