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No. 43.] SIX SILAHARA INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PRINCE OF WALES MUSEUM. 277
D.-Inscription of Aparādityadēva : [Saka) 1107. This inscription was formerly in the Museum of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and seems to be identical with the one mentioned in the Bombay Gazetteer. However, it seems to be different from another inscription of this king which is dated in (Vikrama) Samvat, 1176, Sunday the 14th of the bright half of Chaitra. The stone measures l'11" by 1'5', and the inscribed portion l' 4" by 121". At the top, the stone is in the shape of a triangle, within which is carved a kalasa, resting on a linga.
The inscription is dated Saka) 11073 Viśvāvasu Samvatsara, Chaitra Suddha 15, Sunday. This is equivalent to Sunday, 17th March, A.D. 1185.
The inscription records that in the reign of Aparadityadēvat the Mahapradhana Lakshmaņa Nāyaka, son of Bhāskara Nāyaka, after having bathed in a tirtha (probably Somanātha in Käthiāwār) near the sea gave away something in a vātikā in Sthāna (modern Thana) and a sum of money for the worship, etc., of the god Somanātha in Saurāşhtra. The grant closes with the words "hail to the illustrious Chähadadēva "
This inscription resembles in some respects an inscription of Aparādityadēva of Saka 10497 and to A above belonging to Saka 1060. Our attention is drawn to the names of the king and the minister Lakşmaņaiya Prabhu, but it is otherwise different from the latter inscriptions. The present record is dated about sixty years later and we have dated records of two other rulers, viz., Haripäladēva and Mallikarjuna in between.
The inscription therefore belongs to the reign of Aparāditya II and not Aparaditya I as mentioned by Altekar.
The inscription shows that even in the last quarter of the 12th century, the temple of Somanātha in Saurashtra, though once destroyed by the Muhammadans, was still a popular shrine and that among its property could be counted some land in Konkan.
I Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 20, n. 2. The date here mentioned is Sunday the sixth of the bright half of Chaitra, while the grant under question is dated on Sunday the 15th of the bright half of Chaitra. As there cannot be two Bun. days within 9 days, and as 15 can clearly be read in the inscription, the reading of the Gazetteer seems to be incorrect. The date is wrongly given in Ind. Ant., Vol. IX, p. 40, n. 62. The correct date has been noticed by Kielhorn in his List of Inscriptions of Southern India, p. 56, No. 312.-Ed.]
14. B. O. R. I., Vol. V, p. 170. Even if they were identical, as they are in their contents, the reading of the your and date seems to be wrong, for in Vikrama 1176 the Northern cyclio year was Subhakrit, and the Southern Vikarin. The Vikvivasu samvatsara occurs in Vikrama 1179; see Pillai, Indian Ephemeris, Vol. III, pp. 240 and 247. An examination of the text will show that this inscription is identical with the record under considere tion. Mr. Diskalkar is apparently wrong in the reading of the date and referring it to the Vikrama era.-Ed.] . .. Bomb. Gar., Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 20, n. 2, reads 1109 and mentions the tithi as the sixth. This is wrong because the Southern cyclio year in 1109 was Plavangs and not Visvivasu; also the tithi Chaitra suddha 6 would tall on Saturday, whereas the day mentioned in the inscription is Sunday.
Neither any title of the ruler, nor the name of the dynasty is mentioned, though in his other inscription of Saka 1109 he is called Maharajadhiraja and Kön kanachakravartin: J. B. B. R. 4. 8., XII, p. 333. (This inaoription in dated Saka 1108 and not Saka 1109 as given in the Journal and read by Kielhorn (List of Incription of Southern India, No. 313). The Southern cyclic year in Saka 1109 was Plavanga, not Paribhava.-Bd.]
. Rather an unusual ending in a Silahāra inscription. • Cr. specially 11. 4-7 and II. 57-59 of the inscription of Saka 1049.
J.B.B. R. A. 8., Vol. XXI, p. 505. • Op. cit., p. 411, though the Bomb. (lar., Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 30 had already credited it to Aparaditya II.
At thin time Kathia war still formed part of Gujarat, and the king of the latter was Obaulukya Bhima II.
