Indian Antiquary Vol 08

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 53

FEBRUARY, 1879.]
AN INSCRIPTION OF GOVANA III.
AN INSCRIPTION OF GOVANA III. OF THE NIKUMBHAVAMSA.
BY G. BÜHLER. A facsimile and analysis of the inscription four generations further than in Dr. Bhåll transcribed and translated below have been Daji's inscription. As our inscription is dated published in Messrs. Fleet and Burgess's Páli, Saka 1075, or 1153-54 A.D., and as IndreSanskrit, and Old Canarese Inscriptions, No. 283. râja, Govana's father, and sixth ruler of the To the details mentioned there it may be added dynasty, must have died shortly after that that the characters are ancient Devanagari, time, the commencement of the reign of the closely agreeing in form with those used in the first prince, Krishnaraja I., probably falls documents of the Yada vas of Devagiri. in the beginning of the eleventh century A.D. The only noteworthy peculiarity occurs in the The description of the seven chiefs is made up case of the initial in which in our inscription of the platitudes usually found in such prasasconsists of three dots joined by a horizontal line tis, and contains hardly any historical facts. and a slanting one, and of a curved line below. From the expression in v. 6, svámidevaguru
It must also be noted that lines 10-23 are bhaktih"(his) devotion to his master, to the gods, slightly mutilated on the left-hand side, and have and to his Gurus", which applies to Krishnalost one or two letters each. Most of these râja II., and from the epithet parivridhalaoune, as well as those in the middle of 11. 3, 17, dridhabhaktih, " strongly devoted to his suzeand 22, can be easily filled in conjecturally. rain," which occurs (v. 8) in the description of
As Mr. Fleet has already stated (loc. cit.), Indrar å ja, I, however, conclude that these the inscription belongs to a chieftain of Khân- two, at least, like their successors Sonhadades, named Govana, an ancestor of the ruler deva and Hem â dideva were feudatories, of 1600 villages, Sonha da deva, who, ac- either of the Yadavas of Devagiri, or of some cording to Dr. Bhââ Daji's Pâtņa inscription other dynasty which at that time held the of Saka samvat 1128,' made a grant of land and north-western Dekhan. money to the college established for the study The pedigree of the Nikumbhavansa of the astronomer Bhaskaracharya's works. stands, according to our and Dr. Bhall Daji's It records the consecration of a temple of Siva. | inscriptions, as follows: which had been begun by Indraraja, the
Nikumbhavanía. father of Govana, and had been finished 1. Kțishnaraja I. (about 1000 A.D.) after his death, as well as the grant of a village, called Devasa mga ma, made by
2. Govana I. Govana on that occasion.
3. Govindaraja. From the wording of v. 19, which states that Govana gave the village with the permission of his mother Sridevi, and from the 5. Krishnaraja II. fact that v. 11 contains a eulogy of that
6. Indraraja, md. Śridevi, of the Sagara princess, it may be inferred that Govana was
race, regent after his death. (Saks a minor at the time when the grant was made.
1075, 1153-4 A.D.] sridevi seems to have carried on the government of the province with the assistance
7. Govana III. of the Pradhana Changa deva, to whose praise vv. 13-15 are devoted.
| 8. Sonhadadeva. 9. Hem&dideva [Saka 1128, The genealogy of the family is carried back
1216-7 A.D.) Transcription. 377 44: Part 11
4. Govana II.
- आधारो धरणी सुधांशुतरणी हादप्रकाशप्रदावाकाशस्ववकाशदोया जगतः पा796: 969731 ATT Tycan-1.
1 Jour. R. As. Soc., N. 8., vol. I. p. 414, and Foot and Bargom, loc. cit. No. 284.
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