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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL. XXIX The present grant describes both Allasakti and Jayasakti as samadhigata-pañicha-maha-sabda, i.e., as having attained the right to the five great sounds. They both were evidently subordinate chiefs, owing allegiance to the Chalukya Emperor of Badāmi. Bhanusakti, though described in a more grandiloquent style, probably enjoyed no better status. As his grandson Allasakti was flourishing in 653 and 656 A.C., Bhanusakti may be referred to the first quarter of the seventh oentury A.C. He was probably placed in charge of Gujarat and Khandesh by Pulakesin II after he had conquered these provinces from the Kalachuris. No records of the reigns of Bharusakti and Adityasakti have yet been discovered, but Allasakti is known to have made three grants, two of which, recorded in the Käsare and Bagumra plates, are dated in the Kalachuri era and one, viz., that in the Nagad plates, in the Saka era. The earliest of these, viz., that in the Käsare plates is dated K. 404 (653 A.C.) and registers the donation of some land in the village Pippalikhēta, modern Pimpalner in West Khandesh. The second, known as the Bagumra plates, dated K. 406 (656 A.C.), registers the gift of the village Balisa, modern Wanesa near Ten in South Gujarat. The third record, viz., the Nagad plates, though issued from Käyävatāra, modern Kärwän in Gujarat, mentions the grant of a village in the vishaya of Nandipuradväri which is probably identical with Nandurbar in West Khandesh. This grant is dated in Saka 577 (655-56 A.C.). These records show that Allasakti continued to hold Gujarat and Khandesh at least till 656 A.C. Sometime thereafter, he seems to have lost Gujarat ; for the next date from that part of the country is K. 421 (671 A.C.), furnished by the Surat plates of Sryaéraya-Siladitya, which register the grant of the village Asattigrama, modern Astgaon, not far from Ten. From the Manor plates, recently published by Mr. Krishna Deva, we learn that Dharasraya-Jayasimha, the younger brother of the Chalukya emperor Vikramaditya I, founded the Navsari branch in 669-70 A.C. Thereafter, the rule of the Sendrakas seems to have been confined to Khandesh. As shown below, the places mentioned in the present Mundakhēdē plates can be satisfactorily located near the western border of that district.
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It may be noted that Bhanusakti, Allasakti and Jayasakti bore certain birudas which are usually associated with their Chalukya suzerains. One of these deserves special notice. Jayasakti calls himself Vikramaditya in the present grant, dated 681 A.C. His suzerain was Vikramaditya I, who had died just in the preceding year (680 A.C.). As this is the only known grant of Jayasakti, we do not know whether Jayasakti had borne the biruda previously or whether he assumed it only after the death of Vikramaditya. The absence of any reference to the imperial family in the present grant lends colour to the latter view, but we may note that similar birudas were assumed by other feudatories of the Early Chalukyas. The Manor plates, for instance, show that Mangalarasa, the son of Dharäéraya-Jayasimha, had assumed the biruda Vinayaditya before Saka 613 (691 A.C.) during the reign of the Chalukya emperor Vinayaditya. The present grant does not, therefore, give any indication that Jayasakti had thrown off the yoke of the Early Chalukyas.
No descendants of Jayasakti are known but, as I have suggested elsewhere, the Sinds kings who flourished in Khandesh in the 10th century A.C. may have belonged to the same lineage. Like the Sendrakas, they also claimed to have descended from the lord of serpents. Later, a family called Nikumbha is known to have flourished in the Khandesh District. It is known from the
1 Chandorkar's view that the Sendrakas were independent kings who helped the Early Chalukyas to establish themselves in the Kanarese country is not supported by any evidence.
Above, Vol. XXVIII, p. 18.
Dr. Fleet also inferred that the Bagumrå plates belong to the period when the Western Chalukya sovereignty was in abeyar ce. See Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, Part II, p. 361. Since then we bave known of several records of the feudatories of the Western Chalukyas which make no mention of the reigning emperor.
Above, Vol. XXV, pp. 166 ff.
