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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1881.
being forined against, or being overthrown by, were his feet kissed by the diadem of the lord Vikramaditya I, -the first point to be noted of Kâ ñcbi, who had bowed down before no is that, in the earliest inscription in which the other."24 Again, the inscriptions of Vinayaditya words avanipati-tritay-ántaritam &c. occur, record that "at the command of his father --the very inscription which, through Mr. Rice's (Vikram â ditya I), he arrested the exstrictures on my interpretation of it and my tremely exalted power of the Pallavas, remarks on it, has been the cause of this note,- | whose kingdom consisted of three component these words are followed immediately by krit- dominions, as Sênâni (did arrest) the power of aikadhishthit-dšésha-rájya-bharah, i.e. " having the Daityas (at the command) of (his father) acquired for himself the regal splendour of Bålêndusekhara."15 And the later inscriptions his father, which had been interrupted by a make the same statement, except that, for trai. confederacy of three kings, he made the burden rájya-Pallava, they read trairájya-Kánchápati.16 of the whole kingdom to be presided over Now, neither is tnzirájya a proper name, as by one (sovereign)." The contrast here is Mr. Rice takes it ; nor does trairdjya-Pallava very marked and peculiar, and speaks for or trairdjya-Kdýchápati mean, as he translates itself; he conquered three kings, and then it, "the Pallava king, or the king of Kanchi, made himself sole monarch. Further, the in- who had three reigns, or who formed a triad in scriptions of his son, Vinayaditya, record that himself."18 But it does mean, as I have transVikramaditya I"rent open (like Indra), lated it, "the Pallava, or the lord of Kanchi, with the thunderbolt which was his prowess, (who had three kingdoms, or) whose kingdom the proud summits of the haughtiness of the consisted of three component parts." The exthree mountains which were the three kings of pression points distinctly to there being three Chô!a and Pandya and Kerala." Later well-defined and recognised divisions of the inscriptions, it is true, add "the Kalabhra and Pallava dominions. They may have been each other kings", and record that he "subdued ruled by a separate king of a separate branch (like Indra), with the thunderbolt which was his of the dynasty; or they may have been under prowess, the mighty tumult of the mountains one monarch, with a viceroy in each of the which were the Pandya and the Chô! & three provinces. But, in either case, -having and the Kerala and the Kalabhra and regard to the natural and inveterate enmity other kings. But the earlier inscriptions, as I that existed between the Chalukyas and the have said, mention only three kings- of Chôla Pallavas,--the three Pallava kings, or the and Påndya and Kerala. We turn next to the three viceroys of the Pallava monarch, would as Pallava s. It is recorded that Vikram &- | a matter of course combine to resist a Chalukya ditya I " seized the city of Kanchi, after invasion. In a footnote," apparently overlooked the defeat of the leader of the Palla vas, who by Mr. Rice, to the inscription which has been had been the cause of the discomfiture and the de- the origin of this note, I pointed out what I struction of that family," which was as pure as the have now said at length, -that the three conferays of the moon," and, again, that he hadderate kings either were the kings of Chôļa the waterlilies, which were his feet, besprinkled and Pandya and Kerala, or belonged to the with the waters of the watering-pot. which Pallava dynasty. It must of course remain were the rays of the jewelled diadem of the lord a moot point for the present which of the two of Kanchi, who had bowed down before noviews is the correct one, and, more so, whether other,"18 and, with a slight difference of ex. the introduction by the Miraj plates of N & d &pression, that he had the waterlilies which mari and Aditya varmâ into the genealogy,
Vol. VI, p. 76, 1. 16. • Vol. VI, p. 86, 1. 16, and p. 89, 1. 16; Vol. VII, p. 801, 1. 15; and Pali, Sanskrit, and Old Canarese, Inscriptions, No. 16, 1. 11. The word dharanidhara-traya has here the double meaning of 'three mountains and three kings.'
10 Vol. IX, p. 127, 1. 12, p. 131, 1. 12, and p. 183, 1. 16; Vol. VIII, p. 26, 1. 14; and see Vol. VII, p. 106, 1. 66.
11 The family of the Chalukyas, which was an offshoot of the Somavamia or race of the moon.
11 Vol. VI, p. 88, 1. 15, and p. 89, 1. 14; Vol. VII, p. 301, 1. 18; and P., 8., and 0-C., Inscriptions, No. 16, 1. 10.
13 The same inscription, 11. 17, 17, 16, and 12, respec. tively.
1. Vol. IX, p. 127, 1. 13, p. 131, 1. 12, and p. 133, 1. 17; Vol. VIII, p. 26, 1. 15; and see Vol. VII, p. 106, 1. 66.
15 Vol. VI, p. 86, 1. 19, and p. 89, 1. 19; Vol. VII, p. 801, 1. 17; and P., S., and 0-C., Inscriptions, No. 16, 1. 13.
16 Vol. IX, p. 127, 1. 15, p. 131, 1. 14, and p. 133, 1. 201 and Vol. VIII, p. 26, 1. 17.
11 Vol. VIII, pp. 24 and 28; and Mysore Inscriptions, p. 299. 1 Page 37 abore.
19 VOL VI, p. 78, note
