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No. 43.] SIX SILAHARA INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PRINCE OF WALES MUSEUM. 279
The inscriptions do not give any important information about Sōmesvara. He is merely called Konkanachakravartin and Mahārājādhirāja, titles which are mentioned in connection with Aparadityadeva II also. Neither is there any hint as to his relationship with his predecessor Kēsiraja whose two unpublished inscriptions are referred to in the Bombay Gazetteer. Probably he was a son of the latter as suggested by Altekar."
According to our present knowledge of the history of this family, Sōmēsvara seems to be the last king of the Northern Silahara dynasty. He was defeated and perhaps killed and the country conquered by Mahadeva3 of the (Devagiri) Yadava dynasty. Cousens thinks that the scene of the battle between Sömesvara and Mahādēva is sculptured on some stones lying about Borivli. In this connection it may be noted that the kalasa-like sculpture which appears on the middle stone, figured by Cousens, very much resembles in ornamentation the kalasa-like figure on the stone F described below.
Among the place-names Urapa is the modern Uran, and Paḍivasa may be identified either with Phunda about 2 miles north-east of Uran or with Panja, another village about 3 miles to the north of Uran, in the Panvel Taluka of the Bombay Presidency.
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सति श्री [1] पद्येह समस्त राजावनीसमलंकृतमहाराजाधि 2 राज की [च] चक्रवर्त्तिचीमद (तु) सोमेश्वरदेव राय कल्याणविजयराज्ये
3 तथैत (अ) सादाव्या (वा) तस मस्त मंडल चिंता (ता) भारं समुद्दहति महामात्यश्री
4 झंपडप्रभु महासांधिविग्रही [ते] जप्रभु श्रीकरणी चंद (द्र) प्रभु इत्यादि श्री5 [करणमांडामारे सत्येतस्मिन् काले प्रश्तंमा ने] सति मकसंवत् १९८१ सि (क) चैत्रवदि १ [२] सामा: ( सोमे) श्रोदामोदर भट्ट तथा भ्रातर वासु[व] लेखन २ नारियले पायें निमि श्रीसूर्य दामोदरमहां विधा
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8 उरणें पडिवसें [ग्राम ] प्रतिवहां खंडपलास्थानि 9 सममिती ३
10 बँक दामोदर भटायें
11 जो मंगलमडावीः ॥
चा भाग १ देउलेखंड निमित्ते सूर्यपर्वे हस्तोदकपू - करतिदोह
F.-Inscription of Sōmēsvaradeva: Šaka 1182.
This inscription was found from Chanje near Uran. The stone measures 3' 5" by 1' 7" and the inscribed portion is 1' 6" by 1' 5" and contains 18 lines; the average size of letters is". Below this, in a rectangle (16" x 11") was an ass-sculpture as in B, but now it is completely worn out. Above the inscription, between the Sun and the Moon, on a pedestal is a purna-kalasa; on its
1 Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 20, n. 3.
Op. cit., p. 417.
* This is according to Hēmadri's Chaturvargachintamani, first cited in Bomb Gaz, Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 246; then Altekar, op. cit., p. 417; Cousens, Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan, p. 21; Chalukyan Architecture. p. 143, pls.
CLIII-IV.
Cousens, op. cit., p. 21, pl. XV.
Denoted by a symbol.
• Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 21.
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