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NOTE ON THE SALEM PLATES OF GANGA SRIPURUSHA
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No. 52.-NOTE ON THE SALEM PLATES OF GANGA SRIPURUSHA.
G. 8. GAT, OOTACAMUND
APTER my article on this inscription was sent to the press, I noticed the Rashtrakūta names Sivarāja and his son Govindaraja mentioned in the Narwan plates of Chalukya Vikramaditya II,2 & study of which would throw welcome light on the pedigree of Kanchiyabbá given in the Salem plates of Ganga Sripurusha. In the Narwan grant which bears the date Saka 664, i.e., A.D. 742, the king is stated to have made, while his victorious camp was at Adityavāda, a gift of the village Naravana at the request of Govindaraja, son of Rāshtrakütn Sivaräja. Adityavāda is identified with modern Aitavade in the Satara District and Naravana with the village of the same name in the Guhagar Petha of the Ratnagiri District. So the Rashtrakūta Govindaraja seems to have held a feudatory position under Vikramaditya II in portions of Satara and Ratnagiri Districts of the Bombay Presidency. Possibly Govindaraja's father Sivarāja also held the same position in the same area under the same king or his father and predocessor Vijayaditya.
Now the following genealogy is supplied by the Salem plates :
Nannapp:1
Sivarāja
Govindaraja md. Vinayavati, dau. of king Vikramaditya
KanchiyabbA (A.D. 771) md. Dnggamára, son of
Sripurusha.
Indarija
We find that in both the Salem and Narwan records the names of Sivarāja and Govindaraja occur in identical forms and bear the same relationship, viz., father and son. The date of Govindarāja in the Narwan plates, corresponding to A.D. 742, would place his father Sivarāja in c. A.D. 725. These dates would very well agree with the period of Govindaraja and his father Sivarāja of the Salem plates as Govindaraja's daughter Kanchiyabbá was alive in A.D. 771, when the Salem plates were issued. And Sivaraja's father Nannappa has been assigned to the end of the 7th or the beginning of the Sth century A.D. Further, as noted above, the Narwan grant indicates that Govindaraja was holding a subordinate position under Vikramaditya II. The Salem plates inform us that Govindaraja's queen Vinayavati was the daughter of a well-known king Vikramaditya who in all probability is identical with this very Chälukya king Vikramaditya II. A consideration of these facts lead us to identify Sivarāja and his son Govindaraja mentioned in the Salom plates with their namesakes of the Rashtrakūta family referred to in the Narwan plates. Thus we
* Above, p. 145. . Above, p. 130, text line 57. . Above, p. 147 and noto.
