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SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
brother Ku bja-Vishnuvardhana. The exact date of the latter has not yet been determined, no inscription of his own time being known of; but, calculating backwards by means of inscriptions which give the duration of the reigns of him and his successors of the Eastern dynasty, Dr. Burnellt places it at about A.D. 630, or $ aka 552. It may well be that the two dynasties were separated in Saka 533, and that Pulikêéi II. was then installed afresh on the throne of the Western branch of the family, at the same time when his younger brother, after being already united with him in the government as Yuvaraja, according to the • usual custom, was installed as the separate sovereign of the Eastern branch. The expres sicn made use of in line 11 of the present | successors as the Eastern Chalukyas.'
inscription," in the third year of my own installation in the sovereignty,"-seems to point to some such ceremony having been gone through, and thus to support this suggestion. And, the duration of the reign of Kubja-Vishnuvardhan a being always recorded as eighteen years, -if we take Saka 533 as the starting-point, the computation agrees closely enough with the Gate otherwise arrived at by Dr. Burnell.
The separation of the two dynasties in the persons of Pulikêsi II. and his younger brother is a historical fact, whatever the exact date of the occurrence may be. Accordingly, in future notices I shall speak of the successors of Pulikesi II as the Western Chalukyas' and of Kubja-Vishnuvardhana and his
Transcription. First plate.
[3] वस्ति [1] श्रीमतां सकलो (ल) भुवनसंस्तूयमानमानव्यसगोत्राणां हारी (रि) तीपुत्राणां स [2] लोकमातृभिः
सप्तमातृभिरभिवर्द्धितानां
कार्त्तिकेयानुग्रह परिरक्षणप्राभगवनारायणप्रसादसमासादितवराहला
MARCH, 1877.]
[3] प्रकल्याणपरंपराणां
[4] ञ्छनेक्षणवशीकृताशेषमहीभृतां
[5] अश्वमेधावभृथस्नानपवित्रीकृतगापस्य
[6] पोलिकेशिवलभ महाराजस्य
[)] पतिमण्डलप्रतिबद्धविशुद्धकीर्तिपताकस्प
[8] राजस्य
तनयो
[17] सनिधि:
(15) णार्थमुदकपू
पौत्रः
[13] पदामावास्यायां
[14] वाप्तये
वासिष्ठसगोत्राय
[15] चतुर्वेदावर (1) कुलनामधेयाय
[16] क्युत्तरतः
सोपनिधिः
नयविनयादिगुणविभुं (भू) व्याश्रयः
Second plate; first side.
(*) श्रयथिनीनलभमहाराजः
समरशतसंघट्टसंसक्तपरनृपतिपरा
[10] जयोपलब्धपरमेश्वरापरनामधेय : सर्वानाज्ञापचयस्तु वो विदितं मवातापीनगरी मधितिष्ठतात्मनः प्रवर्द्धमानराज्याभिषेक संवत्सरे
[11] या
तृती
[12] ये शकनृपतिसंवत्सरतेषु चतुस्त्रिंशाधिकेषु पञ्चस्वषु भाद्र
मातापित्रोरात्मनः
पुण्यातगराधिवासिने रोल्कू
ग्रामः
सूर्य्यग्रहणनिमित्तं
चलिक्यानां
कदप्पयामदक्षिणतः
सक्कॢप्तः
कुलमलंकरिष्णु (ष्णोः) सत्याश्रयश्रीपराक्रमाकान्तवननामा (स्पा) दिपरनृकीर्तिवर्म्मवल्लभमहाश्रीसत्या
[u]
दत्तः
+I do not know of any mention of this person in the grants of the Western dynasty; but his elder brother is always mentioned, usually under the name of Satyasraya
Second plate; second side.
तैतिरीयाय
ज्येष्ठशर्मणे
माकर पिनम
78
सोपरिकरः
अयमस्मदायो
पञ्चमहायज्ञनिर्वृपन्यैरागामिनृपतिभिरनुम
Vallabhendra, in such of the grants of the Eastern dynasty as trace the genealogy back to Kirttivarmâ I., the father of the two brothers. + so. Ind Pal, p. 19.
