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No. 38] SHIGGAON PLATES OF CHALUKYA VIJAYADITYA, SAKA 630 319 Vinayaditya, dated in A.D. 692, that he made a grant at the request of Guņasägara-Aļupēndra's son Chitravāhana who was in the possession of Edevoļal district in Banavāsi province. Further a stone inscription from Kigga in the Koppa Taluk of the Kadur District in Mysore State' states that when Aļuarasa Guņasāgara was ruling Kadamba-mandala i.e., Banavasi province, he, (bis) queen and his son) Chitravāhana made some grant. On the assumption that the Chitravāhana mentioned in the Sorab plates and the Kigga inscription was one and the same person, Hultzsch suggested that Guņasāgara was the governor of the Banavāsi province in or immediately before the time of Vinayaditya and that his son Chitravāhana succeeded to the governorsbip of Banavāsi. This view is supported by our inscription in which it is stated that Vijayaditya had gone to Banavāsi to meet Chitravūhana which shows that Chitravūhana was in possession of the Banavāsi province. There is no doubt that this Chitravāhana was the same as his namesake mentioned in the Sorab plates referred to above. The grant under consideration discloses, for the first time, that this Ālupa ruler Chitravūhuna continued in his office during the time of Vijayāditya also till A.D. 707 at least, the date of the present grant. We also learn, for the first time, that this Chitravāhana belonged to the Pandya lineage.
It is stated that Vijayāditya made the grant, at the request of Chitravă hana, to the Jaina monastery which was caused to be constructed by Kumkumadēvi at Purigere. The relation that existed between Kumkumadēvi on the one hand and Vijayaditya or Chitravāhana on the other is not specified in the record. This Kurkumadēvï is mentioned in another contemporary record of Vijayāditya' dated A.D. 705, which likewise does not specify the relationship between them. But we know from a late record found at Gudgēri in the Dharwar District and dated in A.D. 1076 that Vijayaditya had a sister named Kumkumamahādē vi and that she caused to be constructed a Jaina monastery called Anesejjeyabasadi at Phrigere. Since Vijayaditya was her brother and since the grant to the Jaina monastery caused to be erected by her was made at the request of Chitravahana, it is tempting to suggest that she might have been the wife of the Alupa ruler Chitravāhana. The expression sva-hridaya-pralhādana-kūrinyā applied to Kumkumadēvi in lines 36-37 might refer to Chitravāhana. Thus he might have been related to the king as brother-in-law. And the way in which Vijayāditya's visit to Banavāsi is described might lend further support to this view; cf. Ālupēndram drashțum Vanavasim=āyātavati Vijayāditya-vallabhēndrè in line 32. This suggests that the king had gone to Banavāsi as if to pay a courtesy visit to his brother-in-law and not in the capacity of an over-lord. It is interesting to note that the actual camp of the king at the time was at Kisuvolal and that the king appears to have gone to Banavāsi to pay a personal visit to Chitravăhana. It is also likely that the Ālupa ruler Chitravāhana was an elder relative of the king since he figures in the grant of Vinayaditya dated A.D. 692 referred to above.
The Jaina monastery which was caused to be constructed by Kurkumadēvi at Purigere and in respect of which the king made the grant might have been the same monastery as the one called Anesejjeya basadi in the Gudgēri inscription referred to above.
The gift-village was Guddigere, stated to be the centre of Jaina religion specially for the teaching of Sūrasta branch of Müla-sangha. Guddigere is modern Gudgēri which is about 6 miles west of Lakshmēsvar (ancient Purigere). Its Sanskritised name is given as Dhtaja-tafāka in the Gudgēri inscription mentioned above.
1 Ep. Car., Vol. VI, Kp. 38. . Above, Vol. IX, p. 16.
• Chitravābana of the Sorab plates is called Chitravāhana I by Hultzsch in view of another Chitravahana (11) found in later records. See above, Vol. IX, p. 16.
* Some Aļupa kings of a later date trace their descent from the lunar race. Soe ibid., pp. 21-23 . An. Rep. on s. I. K., 1934-35, App. A., No. 22. . Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII, pp. 35 ff.
