Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 32
Author(s): D C Sircar, B Ch Chhabra,
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (VOL. XXXII line 18. It is often wrongly changed to anusvära and is found wrongly conjoined with the following v in a few cases in lines 26, 59 and 60. In one case in line 43, finaln has been wrongly changed to anusvära. The rules of Sandhi have in some cases been ignored. The date of the charter is quoted in lines 58-60 as Saka 848, Vyaya, Vaisakha-su. 3, Akshata tritiya, (i.e. Akshaya-tritiya), Monday. The details correspond to the 17th April, 926 A.D. The inscription begins with the Siddham symbol. Then follows an introductory section in four stanzas, the first of which is in adoration of Girisută and Hara (i.. Parvati and Siva). Verse 2 is also in adoration of Durgā, i.e. Pärvati. The sage Agastya is adored in verse 3 and the Arya-dēfiya Mahā-parshad in verse 4. Since Agastya was regarded as the leader of the Aryanisation of trans-Vindhyan India, he was an object of special veneration to the Brahmanists of the south. The Arya-dėsiya Mahā-parshad seems to have been an assembly of learned Brāhmaṇas hailing from what was called Aryävarta (roughly, India to the north of the Vindhyas) in ancient Indian literature. The contents of the record would suggest that this assembly belonged to the city of Samyana which is the modern Sanjan about 22 miles to the north of the findspot of the inscription. The same assembly is apparently mentioned in lines, 29-30 as the Pancha-GaudiyaMahā-parshad. The next four stanzas (verses 6-8) introduce the Yadu or Yādava dynasty. This section speaks of the moon, his son Budha, his son Pururavas, and his son Āyus. It also mentions Yayāti as one of the imperial rulers born in the said family and Yadu as the son of Yayāti and the progenitor of the Yadu-vamsa. Verse 9 refers to the birth of Govindaraja in the same family otherwise called the Rashtrakta dynasty. This Govindaraja is the Rashtrakūta king Govinda I, son of Indra I and grandson of Dantivarman I. The next stanza (verse 10) mentions the following four kings who ruled successively : (1) Kakkarāja (Kakka I), son of Govindarāja ; (2) Indrarāja (Indra II), son of Kakkarāja ; (3) Dantidurga (Dantivarman II, 742-56 A.D.), son of Indraräja; and (4) Krishnarija (Krishna I, 756-75 A.D.), the younger brother of Dantidurga's father. Verse 11 similarly speaks of the following successive rulers of the Rashtrakūta dynasty : (1) Govindarāja (Govinda II, 775-80 A.D.), son of Křishộarāja ; (2) Dhruvarāja (780-94 A.D.), younger brother of Govindarāja ; (3) Jagattunga (Govinda III, 794-814 A.D.), son of Dhruvarāja ; and (4) Amoghavarsha (ie. Amöghavarsha I, 814-80 A.D.), son of Jagattunga. Verse 12 not only mentions Krishnarāja (Kfishna II, 878-915 A.D.), son and successor of Amöghavarsha, but also refers to his own successor who was the son of his son named Jagattunga. The name of the grandson and successor of Krishna II is given in verse 13 as Indrarāja (Indra III, 915-28 A.D.) while the next stanza (verse 14) describes him as grihita-Dāhāla-nāyakakapāla and uttara-dig-baddha-tuchi. In the first of these two epithets, Dāhāla is no doubt the name of the territory under the rule of the Kalachuris of Tripuri near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, and nāyaka possibly means a lieutenant of the contemporary Kalachuri king. The claim therefore may refer to the slaughter of a Kalachuri general. We know that Lakshmi, mother of Rashtrakūta Indra III, was the daughter of Kalachuri Sankaragana Ranavigraha, son of Kõkkalla I." That the Rashtraktas did not originally claim the Yadava lineage seems to be suggested by the description of Govinda III in his records. It is stated that the Rashtrakata family became unconquerable to its foes owing to the birth of Govinda III just as the Yadava race had been after the birth of Madhu-ripu, i.e. KrishnaVishnu (of. Ind. Ant., Vol. VI, p. 66, verse 11) thereby making a distinotion between the two dynasties. The Banjan plates (above, Vol. XVIII, p. 243, verse 3) of Amoghavarsha I, dated 871 A.D., refer to the birth of Ri. shtrakata Govinda I in the Yadu dynasty thus suggesting the identification of the two families. The HuvinaHippargi inscription (862 A.D.) of the same Rashtrakata king mentions Krishna I as Yadav-and-odbhava, probably meaning an incarnation of Krishna, the Yidava par excellence. Cf. Bombay-Karnalak Inscriptions, Vol. I, part i, p. 6, No. 9, toxt lino 1. Cf. Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 268,

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