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No. 25-INSCRIPTION FROM NAVALI, SAKA 936 SHRINIVAS RITTI AND B. R. GOPAL, OOTACAMUND
(Received on 21. 4. 1959) Navon, the findspot of the insoription' under study, is a small village on the bank of the river Krishna in tine Linggugur Taluk of the Raichur District of Mysore State. From the inscriptions in the village, we learn that it was known as a tirtha-sthāna or holy place and is even today visited by a number of Hindus on the day of the Makara-samkeramana for a dip in the holy waters of the river flowing by the village and called uttara-vähini. The present insoription was found on a slab of stone lying behind the temple of Jaţāšarkara. It is in a good state of preservation though a portion of the left side of the stone is broken off and, as & result, a few letters are lost in lines 13-27. The inscription contains 27 lines in all.
The record does not exhibit any palaeographical or orthographical peculiarity worth noting. Its date is Saka [9]36, Ananda, Vaisakha su.3, Monday, regularly corresponding to the 5th April 1014 A. D.
The epigraph refers itself to the reign of Vikramāditya V and mentions Jayasimha (i.e. Jayagirinha II Jagadēkamalla of the Western Chalukya family) as governing the division of Ededore Two-thousand and states that Jõgasivacharya of Karadikal made a grant of land for worshipping the foot-prints (pädrikā) of his (ie. Jayasimha's) preceptor who became one with Siva (i.e. died) at the tirtha-sthāna of Navile on the eighth day of Kārttika-bahula of the cyclic year Paridhävi (s.e. the 10th November 1012 A. D.). The gift land was purchased by paying money to three sthanapatis of the temple of Jedeyasankara, including Mänikösvara-bhalára.
The date of the inscription is one of the latest for the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya V.' Jayasinha II, the governor of the Ededore division, is described as the päda-parkaja-bhramara of Tribhuvanamalladöva (ie. Vikramaditya V) to whom all the usual Western Chälukyản titles are ascribed. Jayasimha's epithet Komaragajakesari also suggests that he was yet a prince. .
There is no doubt that at the time our record was incised, Vikramāditya V was ruling and his brother Jayasimha II was the governor of a division under him. An inscription at Rügi in the Indi Taluk of the Bijapur District dated the 20th February 1015 A.D., i.e., ten and a half months later than the record under study, refers to the brother of Vasudhaikamalla Ayyana without mentioning the former's name. This brother of Ayyana may be identified with Jayasinha II. In that case, the accession of Jayasimha must have taken place between the 5th April 1014 A.D. and the 20th February 1015 A.D. If Ayyana's brother referred to in the Rugi inscription is not identified with 1 4. R. Ep., 1968-59, No. B. 170.
There is a record at Gonshalu in the Bellary District (SII, Vol. IX, Parti, No. 79) belonging to the reign of Vikramiditya V and dated in Saka 93(6) ........ Sravana (July 1014 A.D.). In A. R. Ep., 1932-33 (No. B 722). the same date is read as Saka 936.
An inscription from Maaki, datod Saka 932 (1010 A.D.), gives Jayasinha the same titlo (4.R. Bp., 1963-64, No. В 244).
A. R. Ep., 1937-38, B. K. No. 69. * [The Ragi inscription of the 20th February 2015 A.D. does not mention Jayasitha II. It rocords the gift of a chiof named Dēvaparasa who is described as the bee on the lotus feet of Vasudhaikamalla Ayyana and apparently also as the tamma or brother of the samo king. The writing on one face of the pillar abruptly stops with the word tammar in order to give Dövanarada, described with a number of epithets on another of its faces, & special importance as the donor. This kind of introduction of the reigning monarch and his subordinate is not at all uncommon in the Indian epigraphic literature. It is interesting to note that Dēvanarasa is also described as Annanabasta (i.e. the soldier or servant of his brother, i.e. Ayyapa). Therp is no evidenoo to suggest that Dévaparass was just another namo of Jayasinhha II and, oven if it was, Ayyana's brother who was the donor of the grant reeorded in the Rügi inscription was ruling as a subordinate of Ayyapa who was then the reigning king. The importance of the Ragi inscription lies in the fact that it is the only record of the reign of Vasudhaikamalla Ayvada 40 for discovered. His brother and viceroy Dévaparasa is as yet unknown from any other souro.--Ed.]
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