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MASULIPATAM PLATES OF AMMARAJA II.
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protects the three worlds, unlike the Maliyapūndi grant which opens with an invocation to the Jaina religion, being a charity made for the Jaina faith. Lines 2-22 contain the usual prasasti and genealogy of the Eastern Chālukya dynasty, beginning with Kubja-Vishņuvardhana, the younger brother of Satyāśraya Vallabhēndra down to Vijayāditya-Ammarāja II, the donor of the grant. The genealogical portion does not give us any more historical particulars about the kings that preceded Amma II, than we know from the other records of the family. As usual Jayasimhavallabha I is given a period of 33 years, which Dr. Fleet, however, considered to be incompatible with his adjustment of the reigns of the other kings of the dynasty. I do not think that Dr. Fleet was justified in reducing the period of Jayasimhavallabha I from 33 to 30 years ; and his reasons for so doing are not convincing. There is only a single record which gives the king & reign of 30 years while the entire range of the family charters, which number about fifty, are unanimous in giving him a period of 33 years. Dr. Fleet's calculations and computations are made, as I have shown elsewheres, upon certain misconceptions. The only record that gives 30 years' reign to the king is the Padamkalūru grant of Ammarāja IIwhich was composed by Madhavabhatta. The scribe who engraved the charter on the plates must have committed an obvious error in omitting the word trayas before trimsatam, for the edict on the Guņdugolanu plates of the same king, which was also the composition of the self-same poet Madhavabhatta, gives Jayasimhavallabha a reign of 33 years, which is in conformity with the statements of other records. Similarly, Narendramsigarāja-Vijayāditya II is stated to have reigned for 40 years in the present inscription; and this length seems to be the correct period as shown by me in my Revised Chronology of the Eastern Chālukya Kings, as against the period of 44 years which was allotted to him in Dr. Fleet's computation. It is, however, needless to repeat here my reasons for accepting the period of 40 years, which I have stated at length in my Revised Chronology; but I consider it necessary to give a summary of the chronology of the kings as fixed by me--from Kubja Vishnuvardhana to Chāļukya Bhima I, for whose coronation we have a recorded date alongside with Dr. Fleet's scheme of the Eastern Chalukyan chronology for easy reference.
REVISED CHRO
NOLOGY.
DR. FLEET'S
SCHEME.
Order and Names of Kings.
Length of reigns Length of reigns (years) and their (years) and their equivalents in equivalents in years A.D.
years A.D.
1. Kubja-Vishnuvardhana 2. Jayasimhavallabha I 3. Indrabhattāraka . 4. Vishņuvardhana II. 5. Mangi-Yuvarija . 6. Jayasimha II. . 7. Kokkili. . .
. . . .
18: 624-641 33 : 641–673 7 days : 673
9: 673—882 25 : 682—706 13: 706—718
18: 615–633 30 : 633—663 7 days : 663
9 : 663-672 25: 672–696 13: 696—709 6 months : 709
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6 months : 718
-719
1 Above, Vol. IX, pp. 50 ff.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, pp. 10 and 12. 3^ The Revised Chronology of the Eastern Chalukya Kings" in J. A. H. R. S., Vol. IX, Part 4, pp. 17 and 27 and chart on p. 30A. • Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, pp. 15 ff.
Ibid., Vol. XIII, p. 248, text, line 7. • Ibid., Vol. XX, pp. 12-13.
