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SALOTGI INSCRIPTION.
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being identified with Krishna Deva, No. 12 of culations, it has been further found that the new the above list, it can hardly admit of doubt that moon of Bhadrapada in Saka 867 fell upon TuesAmogha Varsha, No. 11 of the Karda plate, day, as mentioned in the inscription. must be taken to be the father of Krishna Raja To recapitulate then what has been said Deva as stated by our inscription; which being above regarding the Yâdava princes of Manya lated during Krishna Raja's own reign was less Kheta, we find likely to be in error regarding the relation be- 1. That the series of fourteen princes given tween the two princes than either the Karda plate, in the Karda copper-plate grant is made up of which was dated about twenty-seven years, or a kings of one and the same family who reigned generation after Krishna Raja, or the Kharepatan one after another at Mânya-Kheta. plate, which was given full sixty years after that 2. That the date of Govinda Raja, the prince, and in a district far removed from Mânya- third of the lists being Saka 730, and that the kheța.
last prince of the list being Saka 894, it is proIt is to be noticed that the inscription makes bable that the reign of Danti Durga, the mention of Krishna Raja being intent upon first prince of the lists, might be taken to have making an expedition of conquest upon Kaly- commenced about 40 years before that of Goâņa, the capital of the Chalukyas, thus confirm- vinda Raja, or A.D. 767, and not A.D. 867 as ing what we already know-that the latter were supposed by Prof. Wilson, and that consequently antagonistic to the Rashtra Kůta kings of the Manya-Kheta line of kings covers a period Mânyakheta. The expression “engages in re- of about two centuries. ducing the prosperous and great Kalyana" 3. That Amogha Varsha, No. 11 of the might mean that Kộishna Deva was the first Karda plate, was the father of Krishna Deva, of his dynasty who undertook an expedition upon No. 12 in the same, and that the title of the the city of the Chalukyas daring their temporary latter prince was Akala Varsha, and that he bereavement of it, or that the hold of the was on the throne in Saka 867; and Rashtra Kata kings over that city, obtained 4. That Krishna Raja Deva, No. 12 long before his time, had heen shaken by some in the Karda list, given above, should have other rival or by the Chalukya family, who must Akala Varsha added to him as his title, and that be supposed to have been attempting at this he should be put down as the son of Amogha time to recover it, since they actually did recover Varsha. it about fifty years later under Tailapa Deva.
Translation. The solar eclipse recorded in the inscription PROSPERITY! Victorious is the excellent was calculated for me by Prof. Keru Lakshman child" born of Vinatâ, and belonging to Vishņu, Chhatre, and found to correspond with the Saka and manifested in [visible] form, carrying him, year 867, in which year, in Bhadrapada, there whose body is the three-fold universe, and predid occur a solar eclipse. But as usual in the eminent among those that are possessed of Dekhan inscriptions, the Barhaspatya or cycle bodies! From the time of Saka eight hundred year, Plavanga, mentioned in the inscription, does and sixty-seven years having passed, and as not correspond with Saka 867, in which the cycle many years in figures, when the year Plavanga year Visvavasu occurred, and between which and is current, the people being happy, the country
Plavanga there intervene two years. Whatever abounding in wealth of corn of various kinds, the may be the proper explanation of this oft-recur- beloved son of the glorious King Amogh a varring discrepancy, the agreement between the sha Paramesvara, Akálavarsh year Saka 867 and the solar eclipse leaves no Deva [by title], the exceilent, devoted to the donbt whatever that Saka 867 is the correct date contemplation of his father's (lit. elder's) feet, of the inscription. By Professor Chhatre's cal- engaged in reducing the prosperous and great
This refers to the great Eagle Garuda, the conveyance of Vishnu, and the son of Vinata.
+ Vishnu.
+ svakakalat. From this it is clear that S'aka was regarded in the tenth century A.D. as a proper name.
& S'akakalád gatdodanam sa saptddhika-shastishu Sateshrashtasu taratu samainan anatopi cha. The words tavatsu samanám ankatopi cha show that the figures indicating the number 867 was intended to be put after them. But no numerals are cut on the stone, doubtless through an over
sight of the engraver. In documents of the present day it is very usual in the vernaculars to give & certain number in figures, and say also so many in words. The reversion of the order in the inscription is owing to the latter being entirely in verse.
The original being Prithiof-vallabhekalavarsha-Deve, the title may be Akalavarsha or Kalavarsha, but as previous inscriptions contain Akala Varsha as the title of princes of the Yadava family of Manya Kheta, I take Akala Varsha As the title here.
