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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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kesi by other grants),-to identify the first | victory'; Saty-dsraya, 'the asylum of truth'; Vishnuvardhana with Jay a simha,- Vikram-dditya, the sun of valour'; Vinayand to insert the first Vijay iditya at aditya, the sun of modesty'; and many other the head of the genealogy, as the newly dis- such names, be regarded as mere epithets. covered father of Jay asimha. But the But these are, nevertheless, the names by which authentic portion of this grant,--authentic as those kings were known in history and in offibeing copied from other similar grants of the cial documents. Probably enough they had same dynasty,-only commences with the words also household names of a more simple nature. Svasti Srimatán, &c., in Plate II., 6; 1. 31. All Witness, for instance, the titles of Anna nathat precedes is a mere farrago of vague tradi- singa, 'the lion of Anna', and M& vanation and Puranic myths, of no authority, based singa, Sê na na-singa, and Boppanaon the undoubted facts that the Chalukyas singa, which were borne by some of the did come originally from the north, and did find feudatories of the later Western Châluk ya the Palla vas in possession of some of the kings, and which, when compared with Jagaterritories afterwards acquired by themselves, de ka-dani, the ratting elephant of Jagaand on a tradition of the latter Kadam bag | dê ka', in transer. 1. 9 of No. I. of this Series, that the founder of their family was named at Ind. Ant., Vol. IV., p. 179, point to Anna, Trilôchana or Trinetra. Quoting the Må va, Sena, and Boppa being, as much Mackenzie Collection, Mr. Rice, in his Gazetteer as Jagad & ka, names of the paramount of Mysore and Coorg, Vol. I., p. 204, tells sovereigns. Witness, also, the motto Sri-Bittas that "A Trinetra-Pallava is said to arasa, the king Sri-Bitta, or, Sri-Bitti', have introduced Brahmaņs into his territory; which is on the seal of a copper-plate grant of but, as this event is placed eleven thousand the Eastern Chalúky a king Vishņu varyears B.c., it may be dismissed as a fabrication." dhana I., published at Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., I know of no other grounds for allotting the Vol. II., p. 1. Mr. K. T. Têlang refers to the name of Trilôchana or Trinetra to any fact that rana-vikránta, he who is valorous in member of the Palla va family.
war', is one of the epithets applied to BuddhaAccordingly,-expunging 'R & ja simha' as varma; but he does not seem to rely much a second name of Ranar âga, and marking on this in his identification of the two persons. the date of Saka 411, allotted to Pulike si I., And rightly so; for, precisely the same epithet, as rather doubtful, -Sir Walter Elliot's first rana-vikránta, is applied to Mangalis vara list of the first three generations is the one that in l. 5 of the Badâmi inscription, at Ind. Ant., stands correct. It was based then only on the Vol. VI., p. 363; and in l. 4 of the Eastern plates in the British Museum and on the Yêwûr Chaduk ya grant, of which I have just spoken, tablet. It has now the authority of the Aiholo the father of Kirttivar må I. is mentioned, inscription at Vol. V., p. 67.
not under his proper name of Pulike si, but As it is thus apparent that there are no under the name, or epithet, of Ranavikramagrounds for taking Vijay aditya' as the nripa, i.e., 'king Raņa vikrama', or the name, or as a name, of the father of Puli- king who was possessed of valour in war.' kesi I., Mr. K. T. Télang's proposal--evi- As regards Vijayaditya II., Prof. Dowdently based chiefly on the supposed similarity son's genealogy falls through in the same way. of the name of Vijayaraja with the name As regards his insertion of Buddha varma of this phantom Vijay aditya, -to make and Vijayaraja between Ja yasimha and Vijayaraja the father of Pulike si I., Pulikê bi I., which was necessitated by falls to the ground. He gives no very clear the length of time to be accounted for that reason for identifying Buddha varm &-with resulted from his reading the date of the grant Ranaråga, except that Rana-ruga "may be as Vikrama-Samvat 394, and was justified, to regarded as a mere epithet meaning 'lover of him, by the assumption as to the vague and war.'” So, also, may Jaya-sinha, the lion of unsatisfactory nature of the genealogies of
Rajan is not synonymous with aditya, "san'; but, in similar to,Vijayaraja', we ought to have 'Vijayachandra', the sense of 'poon', it is synonymous with 'chandra. Dot'Vijay Aditya.' Therefore, if at all we want a name differing from, and yet
