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No. 15 ] AKKALKOT INSCRIPTION OF SILAHARA INDARASA
A passing reference is made in the gift portion of the record (1.37) to Mahamandalesvara Kumara Tailapa. A scrutiny of the several inscriptions containing references to the sons of the Western Chālukya king Vikramāditya VI clearly shows that he had at least four sons, viz., Mallikarjuna, Jayakarna,? Sömēsvara and Tailapa. The order in which they are related possibly indicates the meniority of the one over the other, Tailapа being the youngest.
Regarding the geographical names occurring in this epigraph, Anandūru, the headquarters of the Amandūru Three Hundred (district) is to be identified with modern Anadūru, chief town of the taluk of that name in the Usmanabad District of the Nizam's Dominions. This place is about 20 miles to the north of Akkalkot. Ankulage Fifty was & subdivision of Anandūru Three Hundred and the village Ankulage from which it must have taken its name may be identified with the modern Akkalkot town itself. The gift-land was situated in the village [Bi]ttoyang Karamjige, which may be identified with modern Karajgi, a fairly big village in the south-western part of the Akkalkot State.
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1 Svasti srirajayas-chabhyudayag-cha | Namas-tumga-kiras-chumbi-chandra-chåmara2 chāravē [I*] trailökya-nagar-ārambha-mülastambhiya Sa(a)mbhavē 11 [1] Svasti samasta
bhuvan-āśra3 yam Sri-Pri(si)thvi-vallabham Mahārājādhirājam Paraměs(t)varam Paramabhattāraka[m] .
Satyaśra4 ya-ku!a-tiļakar Chāļuky-abharaṇam srima(mat)-Tribhuvanamalladēvara vijaya-rajyam=u5 ttaröttar-ābhivri(ri)ddhi-pravarddhamānam=āchandr-ärkka-tāram baram salutta sri-rāja
dhāni-Ja6 yanti-purada nelevidinoļu sukha-samkathā-vinodadim rājyam-geyyuttam=ire | Tat-pada
padmopa7 jivigaļu ! Vritta | Salsa)radhi-vyāvēshtit-orvvi-va[la]yadol=esedar-s8atya-saudaryya
[sau]ryya-sphura8 d-audāryy-õdgha-dhairyya-prakatita-ye(ya)sar=erbamnegam labdha-lakshmi-pariram[bh-a]
rambha-va9 kshas-sthalar-amala-Siļāhāra-gotrrödbhavar-khkhởchara-vam-aik-åvatamsaratTagara-pura
var-adhisvarar-kshatra10 putrar | [2*] Kanda || Avaro!=Pittaman=embam bhuvanadol=Asitādriy=emba Kāļāmjaram
er11 b-ive mēreyada vasudheyan-avataripaṁ mahipan=āgi paripā[li]sidam || (3*) Prithvi || Avamge
ma12 gan=Ajjan-Ajjiga-nțipamge Nägárjjunam ravi-pratiman=ātamges negaļd=Inndan Indange
semd-aväryya-bhuja-viryy&13 rappa Kavilāsanum Kamcha[num] pravita-bbayan=agrajamg=avarolan npipa Bibbasa
|| [18] Kandal 1 The suggested identity of Jayakarpa with Tailaps is untenable as evidence is available to prove that they were distinct individuals administering different parts of the empire at one and the same timo. (Video Rep. on South Indian Epigraphy, 1921, p. 89.)
• Soe p. 68 n. 1 above. It may be noted that there is another small village named Ankalgo in New South Weet corner of the State.
. From the impressions and the original. • Metre : Mahdaragdhara.
The metre is faulty hero.
