Epigraphia Indica Vol 28

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 60

No. 41
HARASUR INSCRIPTION OF KING SOMA throo generations and that Rāja II and Bijja I were brothers.
Our record again does not furnish a full picture of the genealogy at this stage. We shall therofore take the help of a record from Harihar, Mysore State, to fill up the missing gaps. In doing so we shall confine ourselves in the first instance to the account of the two brothers Rāja II and Bijja I. Of these, the latter, we are told, was the elder. Rāja II had four sons: Ammugi, Sankhavarma," Kannara and Jõgama. After Bijja I the sucoession passed on to his brother's song. Ammugi Was thus the next ruler who was followed by his youngest brother Jõgama. According to this insoription Sankhavarma and Kannarı probably did not rule. We may observe in this context the identity of Karna of the present epigraph with Kannara of the Harihar inscription.
According to the inscription from Hire-Muddanūr, Jögama married Tärädēvi and had a daughter by her named Sävaladēvi. She was probably older than Permadi. She was given in marriage to the Western Chālukya king Vikramaditya VI. Jõgama's son Permādi is mentioned by all the epigraphs..
Permadi's son was Bijjala II, who usurped the Western Chalukya throne. Bijjala II had a younger brother named Maiļugi and he is not mentioned by our record. He is known from three epigraphs in the Mysore State.
Coming to the next generation our record speaks of Sõmēsvara as having ruled after Bijjala. II. The former is more familiarly styled Rāya-Murāri Sõvidēva. Though he was probably the eldest surviving son, the succession from Bijjala II to Sõmēsvara was neither smooth nor
1 Ep. Carn., Vol. XI, Dg. 42.
· Sankhavarma is the same as Sankama of the Mädgihā] inscription (above, Vol. XV, p. 319). Bijjala II's son Saskama II is mentioned as Sankhavarma in a later record (8. 1. I., Vol. IX, pt. 1, No. 297).
. Bom. Gaz.. Vol. I, Pt. II, p. 448, n. 3. In this record solar lineage is ascribed to Jõgams. An inscription from Iazalivara, Bijapur District, opens with an invocation to the Sun god and mentions Kartavirya as the first ancestor of the Kalachuris, indicating thereby their solar descent (B. K. No. 11 of 1930-31). The two apparently divergent statements regarding the lineage of the southern Kalachuris are but reflections of similar statements found in the records of the northern Kalaohuris. Whereas the two branches of the northern Kalachuris, viz., of Tripuri and of Sarayüpāra claim their descent from the lunar race, the third one, the Kalachuris of Ratnapur, substitutes the sun for the moon as their primeval ancestor. (Above, Vol. II, p. 3; Vol. VII; p. 88; Vol. XII, p. 210 ; Vol. XVIII p. 131 : Vol. XIX, pp. 78 and 211, etc.) This disparity can be reconciled by pointing out that Purravas, the ancestor of Kärtavirya was an offspring of Budha and Ila, who were son and daughter of the Moon and the Sun respectively.
An inscription from Walasang, Jath State (B. K. No. 128 of 1940-41), incidentally reveals the hitherto un known relationship of Permāời with the Western Chālukya king Vikramaditya VI. In this record Chandaladēvi. wife of the king is referred to as the grand-mother (muttavve) of Bijjala II. This relationship could be explained only on the assumption that a daughter of Vikramaditya VI, evidently by the above-named queen, was given in marriage to Permadi and that she was mother of Bijjala II. This was in keeping with the Indian tradition of family alliances. As we know in the case of Jógama who gave his daughter to Vikramaditya VI, the latter also would have reciprocated a similar turn of matrimonial obligation by bestowing his daughter in marriago to the former's son.
Permadi appears to have forestalled his son Bijjala II in defying the authority of his suzerain. An inscription from Tadalbăgi, Jamkhandi Stato (B. K. No. 66 of 1938-39), is dated in the 12th regnal year of Permadi, which corresponds to A.D. 1129 and falls right within the regnal period of Soměsvars III. But it is curious to note that it neither mentions the name of the suzerain, nor does it associate the feudatory title Mahamandalēsvara with Permádi. This was perhaps condoned at the time on consideration of intimacy of relationship that subsisted be. tween Permadi and the royal house and the dignified status held by the former in the kingdom. But it was a bad example to set which culminated in a grave catastrophe in the course of the next generation, viz., the overthrow of the Chalukya rule by Bijjala II.
Ep. Carn., Vol. VII, Hl. 50, Sk. 197; Vol. XI, Dg. 44.
* Bijjala II had a son named Vajradeva by Echaladēvi (Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, pt. II, p. 477 and above Vol. XV p. 109). I am inclined to take him to be the eldest. He must have died before the nomination of Sovideva to the Kalachuri throne.