Indian Antiquary Vol 08

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 93

MARCH, 1879.]
TWO EASTERN CHALUKYA COPPERPLATE GRANTS.
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ing but a heap of ashes, the sole remains and Kshetrasingh Para má ra followed of the fair and faithful Chohậnis, Hammira them. Lastly fell the mighty Hammira, performed the funeral ceremonies for the dead, pierced with a h'nndred shafts. Disdaining to and cooled their manes with a last ovation fall with anything like life into the enemy's of the tilänjali. He then, with the remains hands, he severed, with one last effort, his head of his faithful army, sallied out of the fort and from his body with his own hands, and so fell upon the enemy. A deadly hand-to-hand terminated his existence. Thus fell Hammira, struggle ensued. Viram a fell first in the thick- the last of the Chohans! This sad event est of the battle; then Mahimas âhi was shot happened in the 18th year of his reign, in the through the heart. Jaja, Gangadhar Ták, month of Sråvaņa.
TWO EASTERN CHALUKYA COPPERPLATE GRANTS.
BY R. SEWELL, M.C.S., M.R.A.S. The two plates of which I give the tran- | It carrios the list of kings from Kubjascripts below were lately found in the vernacular Vis hņu vardhana, the first sovereign, record room of the Collector's office in Masu- down to Ammarâja II., and is almost identilipatam. As system is everything in these cal in style and expression with the grant pub. matters, I have adopted Mr. Fleet's system of lished by Mr. Fleet, Vol. VII. pp. 15ff. That transliteration; and, in places where passages grant is dated A. D. 945-6, Saka 867, and in his públished grants and in these new ones is given by one Vijay aditya, whose relaare identical, I have adopted the very words tionship to Ammaraja II. is not noted. of his translation, -believing that by so doing Now the present grant also is apparently given I am assisting best the work now being carried by this same Vijay aditya, and, as in out. This will serve to show how very simi- Mr. Fleet's No. XXXIV., his relationship to lar to one another are these Châluk ya? Ammar & ja II. is not mentioned, though grants.
kingly titles are awarded to him. This may, Both the grants now published belong to the as suggested by Mr. Fleet, be Ammaraja's eastern coast of the peninsula near the Krishna grandfather, Kollabiganda.Vijayadi. river, and date from the period when the tya. It is also possible that he may be the Eastern branch of the Chalu ky a kings were Vijay aditya mentioned as the son of ruling over the country they had conquered Ammar & ja I., who was expelled from from the sala n ka yan & sovereigns of
the throne when an infant by Târa pa, and Vengidesa.
who was cousin to Amma râja II., and Bornell, in the 1st edition of his South- probably about the same age as that sovereign. Indian Palæography, had to be content with But I think it is more probably a title of five inscriptions which gave the consecutive Ammarája himself (vide my remarks on order and relationship of these kings and the inscription No. II.). lengths of their reigns,' but we have now more The grant consists of some fields and lands than double that number to go by, and there is in the eastern delta of the Krishna. It is reason to hope that dates and other particulars interesting to notice that one of the boundaries will soon be as accurately determined as those mentioned is the large road," showing that of the Kalyâņa branch.
communications were cared for in that part of And although there is nothing important in the country at that period. The boundaries these two plates, I think those interested in the are noted in Telugu, the words chénu, a field, subject will agree that the more the published éru, a river,' cheruvi, a tank,' being mixed insoriptions are multiplied the better.
up with the Sanskrit kshetra, &c. I shall be No. I.
very glad to receive information on the meanThis inscription is, unfortunately, undated. ings of the words pannasa and paru, which 10 The Tarikh-i'Aut of Amir Khusr å gives the date as though it seems doubtfal whether it ought not to be writArd 21-1 Ka'da A.. 700 (July 1801 A.D.), the siege began
ten with the short -Chalukya. in Rajab, four months previously.-Elliot and Dowson's Some, of course, more, some less, according to their History, vol. III. PP. 75, 179, 549.-ED.
respective dates. "I wo the name so spelt that in use in several plates,