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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Such coins, if they were current in the Chedi country, have not been discovered as yet. The genealogy of the officer who was in charge of the excavation of the tank is given in 11. 2123. The son of Uddharana was Sridhara and the latter's son was Thakkura Lakshmidhara. His son Vidyadhara was the Superintendent of the excavation of this tank (vv. 43-46). The genealogy of the poet is given in ll. 24-25. The son of Ramachandra was Diväkara. His son Purushottama, the composer of the prasasti, is described as belonging to the Krishnatreya-götra, an inhabitant of Benares, well versed in Logic, Grammar (Sabdaśästra), Mimämsä, Vedanta and the Yoga philosophy. The mason was Ananta, son of Galhana (1. 26). In the last line we are introduced to an artisan named Ralhapa, son of Dalha[pa*] whose connection with the record is not made clear. [The context shows that he was a doorkoper-Ed.
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In the genealogy of Malayasimha the first person mentioned is Jața, a contemporary of King Karnna, who reigned from 1041 to about 1070 A.D. Karnna's son Yasahkarnpa is not mentioned but Jata's son Yaśaḥpala is, as the contemporary of Gayakarnna, the grandson of Karnna and the son of Yasaḥkarnna. Evidently Jata, as a young man, had served under Karnņa in the latter's old age and was therefore the contemporary of king Yasahkarnna as well. Yasaḥpala's elder son Chandrasimha is mentioned as the minister of Vijayasimha. Thus, the kings Narasimha and Jayasimha are passed over. Padmasimha, the grandfather of Malayasithha, and the latter's father Kirttisimha were most probably the contemporaries of Gayakarppa and his sons. The earliest known date of Vijayasimba is Kalachuri-Chedi year 932 (1180-81 A.D.), the date of his Kumbhi plates. His latest known date is 1196 A.D. mentioned in the Rewah plates of the Mahārāṇaka Salakhaṇavarmman of Kakarēdi, a feudatary of Vijayasimha. The date of this inscription is earlier than the last known date, viz. V.S. 1253, by three or four years.
Among the places mentioned in this record Tripuri is the modern Tewar, lying six miles from Jubbulpore and Karkarēdi(1.12) is the modern Kakreri situated on the border of the Rewah and Pannā States in Central India. The Maharanakas of Karkarēdi, it may be stated here, were at first the feudatories of the Haihayas of Tripuri and then, of the Chandellas of Jējākabhukti.
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1 [O] Svasti | Ashtara-chakr-äkriti-purn(p)pa-chandra[m] padm-asanastham himasailagauram savy-ētara(a)-paniga-khadga-pustam-vakshyami natvā khalu Mamjughōsham | [1] Malayasimha kulani gunan-atha sva-samayēna yathōchita"-saktika (tab) [I] avataramti padāni yataḥ svataḥ sumaha
marichayab
2 -tam nanu kēna na kirttyate [2] Vachas-ch-oma[b] pravṛitta me Bavēreiva Malayasimha-kula[bja]-pray(b)ōdhāya sahasraśaḥ | [3] Ativimaia-jal-aughaiḥ plavayanti pavitrairemuni-vara-pura-lõkat-samstuta siddhagirbhib apanayati suvaṁśāj-jāta-mātrā kumari kalija-kalusha-bhāram darsa(sa)nan-Narmmada ya [4] Tasyas-tate-sti Tripuri-puriti tasyam-a
3 bhut-Karn(n)na-kula-prasūtaḥ| rajñām guruḥ śrī-Vijay-akhya-dōyō rāj ādhiśāstā vidisan-diśäñ-cha [5] Yasya pratap-anala-bushka-kaṇṭhā rajñā[m] gaņā anguli-samjhay-api | s-asaṁkam-ēvam vivadanti chi(ni)tyam seva-phalas-tat sadasi prapannāḥ || [6*] [Tat]-parvva-puryva bhuvi ye [babhu]vus-tëshām yaso-varddhana-mantra-mantri |
1 J. A. S. B., Vol. XXXI, pp. 116-22.
From the original.
There is a superfluous superscript in ya of yath".
' Anushtubh.
Read phalam tut.
See Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, pp. 224 ff.
• Indravajra.
• Drutavilambita.
• Malini.
