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TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM RON: SAKA 944 AND 1102.
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The record, after the opening verse, proceeds to extol the ocean (11. 2-6), Jambū-dvipa (11. 6-8), Mount Mēru (II. 8-10), Kuntala (11. 11-16), and the king of Kuntala, the Kalachurya Sankama, to whose reign it formally refers itself (11. 16-21). It then mentions the province of Kisukādu (ll. 21-22) and the Mahāmandalēśvara ruling it, the Sinda Vikramadīva, also known as Vikkayya or Vikramăditya (11. 22-23),' giving the pedigree of the latter as follows (U. 23-49) .
Nāki
Sinha
Däsama
Dama Chūvunda [1] Chama
and many other sounding mubona plan cambia con el Bambaran
Acharasa, )
or Achugi [I])
Bammarasa
(Achugi (II),
or (Acharasa, m. Mādēviyarasi
Permādidēva
or Perma
Chāvuņda [II], m. Siriyādēvi
(d. of Bijjala & Echaladēvi)
Bijjala
Vikramaditya (Vikkayya, Vikramadēva)
This differs in some slight details from the pedigree given in the Suņi record above, Vol. XV, p. 109. It morcover supplements it by adding the mention of Bammarasa and by stating that Achugi II conquered the Male or Highlands of the Ghāts, defeated the king of Dahala (Chēdi), sacked Uppina-katto, and killed the Ganga of Kadāra (on which see below), and that Permādidēva captured the Hoysala king's elephants and treasure-waggons as well as the Toraha himself (vv. 13, 15). Next, we are introduced to Bicheya-Sahani, a distinguished Master of the Horse, general, and bihallara-niyogi or holder of seventy-two oflices' in the service of the Sinda Vikramāditya (1l. 49-55); it was on his petition that the present grant was made. The occasion of it was when Vikramaditya, having been moved by hearing a scrmon on the text Manu VIII. 15, was making a number of charitable endowments and gifts in honour of his late father (11.55-70), and the trustee was Gurubhaktadēva, a Saiva divine of the l'ar. vata.gchool of the Kālāmukha church, the beneficiaries being the local sanctuarios of Chimese vera and Mālēsvara. A specification of the boundaries of the land then follows (11. 70-74), with a concluding verse (11.74-75) and some supplementary endowments by Vikramaditya and his brother Bijjana or Bijjala (11. 75-80).
On the Sinda dynasty ace above, Vol. XIV, pp. 268-270, and Dyn. Kan Distr, p. 572 ff.
* Apparently the head of some hostilo tribe of that name; cf. the titlo Tortpa-kullimiakar, "slayers of the Torapa race," applied in the present record, I. 63, to tho burgesses of Ron, and the reference in the Hali inscription above, Vol. XVIII, p. 200. As this name shows, the school was derived from Kashmir. Cf. Ep. Carn. VII. 1, 8k, 114, etc.
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