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INDRAGADH INSCRIPTION OF NANNAPPA, V. S. 767
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our record (710-11 A. D.). Similarly, Nanna referred to as the father of Rāshtrakūta Sarkaragana who issued the Daulatabad plates dated Saka year 715 (793 A. D.), too, cannot be identified with Nanna of our record due to the considerable gap of time between the two. A Rāshtrakūta Nannarāja is mentioned in a Prakrit inscription engraved in nail-headed characters of the 8th or 9th century A. D. on the back wall of the chapel between caves XXVI and XXVII at Ajanta. On account of closer proximity of time and place, Nannarāja of the Ajanta inscription may more plausibly be identified with Nanna of the Daulatabad plates than with the homonymous chief of our record.
The Bayana memorial stone inscription, palaeographically datable in circa 8th century A. D., also refers (without specifying the family name) to a prince called Ņaņņa during whose reign one Durgāditya was killed in the course of a fight at a place called Pimpala-Gaundala. Mere identity of name and similarity of script do not warrant the identification of this prince with Ņaņņa of our record, as the tract of Bayana is not contiguous with the known extent of Nannarāja-Nannappa's kingdom.
The feudatory status of the family of Nannarāja-Nannappa is indicated by the non-a88umption of paramount titles by any member of the family. We should also note the fact that Svāmirāja of the Nagardhan plates bears the significant epithet bhattāraka-padanuddhyāta. The paramount rulers of Berar in the time of Svāmirāja (573 A. D.) were the Kalachuris who were ousted early in the 7th century A. D. by the Chalukyas of Badami. The territories of Pulakēsin II (610-42 A. D.) who is credited with the conquest of the three Mahārashtrakas included Berar and also probably Malwa which continued to form part of the Chalukya empire in the time of his successors, viz. Vikramaditya I (655-80 A. D.), Vinayaditya (681-96 A. D.), and Vijayaditya (697-733 A. D.). The last two were the Chälukys suzerains of Nannarāja-Nannappa.
TEXT [Metres: Verses 1, 4, 6 Sragdhara; verses 2-3, 8 Sārdūlavikridita ; verses 5, 7, 9-15 Anzashubh.]
1 ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥ सूचीपातेन सद्यः प्रचलति वसुधा कम्पते नागराजः
पादोद्धारेण नीतो इज इव धवलो. दुग्धसिन्धुर्विभाति । दोर्दण्डश्च
WHE: - 2 रपि गिरयो जातपक्षा[*] प्रयान्ति यस्मिनि(नि)त्थं प्रनृत्ते भवति जगदिदं
सोस्तु भूत्यै भवो वः ॥ [१॥* प्राप्तं तस्य फलं मयाच तपसो यत्तत्कृतं तत्पुरः(रो) यन्मे मूर्टिन
1 Above, Vol. IX, pp. 195 ff. and Plate. *G. Yazdani, Ajanta, Part IV, Text, pp. 121 ff. and Plate. . Arch. Surv., West. Circ., An. Rep., 1908-09, p. 49.
•[A ruler named Nannappa, who seems to have belonged to the Rashtrakata lineage and ruled about the olone of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century, is known from the Salem plates of Ganga Sripurusha, datod Beka 693 (771 A. D.). Soe above, Vol. XXVII, p. 147 and note 5, pp. 335-36. For an earlier ruler named Nanna who may not have been a Räehtrakata, The Classical Age, p. 197. -Ed.]
[This is oxtremely doubtful. There is a yot no evidence to show that the Indragadh region formed. part of the dominians of the Chilukyw of Bidikmi. It is also not certain that Nappappa was a feudatory rulor.--Ed.)
From the original stone and inked im Expressed by symbol.
