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MARCH, 1881.]
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C. S., M.R.A.S.
(Continued from Vol. IX, p. 296.) No. LXXXI.
It is unnecessary to repeat my transcription TADAMI, the ancient Vat&pior Våt & pi, and translation here. It is a Chalky a or
is the chief town of the Taluka of the Chaluky a inscription of Mangaliśvara, same name in the Kaládgi District, and is and is dated Saka 500 (A. D. 578-9), in the situated about four miles from the left bank of twelfth year of his reign; and it records the conthe Malậpahârf or Malaprabhå river, in Lat. struction, or rather the completion, of the Cave 15° 55' N. and Long. 75° 45' E. I have ex. as a temple of the god Vishnu, the installation of plained the origin of its name at Vol. VIII, an image of Vishņu in it, and the grant of the p. 238.
village of Lañjiśvara. This inscription; In addition to possessing many architec- therefore, fixes Saka 489 as the commencement tural remains, which have been described by of the reign of Mangalîśvara. It is also of Mr. Burgess in the First Archeological Report, pp. extreme interest as determining, with a precision 15 et seqq., Badami is fairly rich in inscriptions. not previously attained, the starting point of the I have already published three of them in this Saka era. This era has been supposed to date Series ;--the fragments of a Pallava and of from the birth of Salivahana, & mythological Western Chalukya inscription, No. LXXIII, prince of the Dekkan, who opposed Vikramaat Vol. IX, p. 99, and a Western Chalukya tablet ditya, the Rájd of Ujjayini." It is here said of Jagadôkamalla II, dated Saka 1061 (A. D. distinctly to date " from the anointment, or 1139-40), No. XXXIII, at Vol. VI, p. 139. Il coronation, of the Saka king." now give all the remaining inscriptions that are In the Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. XIV, at present known to exist at this place, with p. 23, among some remarks on the dates of the lithograph facsimiles of the most interesting of early Chalukyas, Professor Bhandarkar has inthem.
terpreted the date of this inscription to be the After the Pallava fragment mentioned above, twelfth year of the reign, not of Mangaliśvara, the earliest, of known date, is the Sanskrit but of his elder brother Kirttivarma I. I cannot inscription of the Chalukya king Mangalarâja, agree with him in this. His chief object seems Mangalisa, or Mangaliśvara, on a pilaster in the to be to explain the date, "the twentieth year verandah of the Vaishnava Cave No. III. Dr. of the angmenting reign of victory, and the year Eggeling's version of this inscription has been five-hundred and thirty-two of the Saka era," given at Vol. III, p. 305, and in the First Archæol. -of the grant published by Mr. K. T. Têlang Report, p. 23; and my own version of it, at Vol. at Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. X, p. 348, to VI, p. 363, and in the Second Archæol. Report, be the twentieth year of the reign of Mangalisp. 237, with some corrections notified in the vara ; in which case, of course, it would follow Third Archeol. Report, p. 119.
that Saka 500 cannot have been the twelfth year The original facsimile, published with Dr. of his reign, and that Kirttivarma I. must have Eggeling's paper in this Journal and as Plate died, and Mangaliśvara succeeded him, not in XXXII. of the First Archeol. Report, did not Saka 489, but in Saka 513. My own opinion altogether do justice to the original. Accordingly as to Mr. K. T. Télang's grant is that it a fresh lithograph,' from the original estampage is a Chalukya grant, and is of the reign of made by Mr. Burgess, has been prepared under Mangaliśvara; but that the "twentieth year of my personal superintendence, and is published the augmenting reign of victory' refers, not to herewith. The original covers a space of 3' 7"
the reign of Mangalisvara, but to the governorhigh by 2 l broad.
ship of the local viceroy and grantor, and is
* No. 44 of Paú, Sanskrit, and Old-Canarese, Inscriptions.
* No. 39 of P., S., and 0-0. Inscriptions.
? Prinsep's Useful Tables, p. 154, in Thomss' edition of Indian Antiquities, Vol. II.
RAvattavipavasthita..... vishayamandala- chotushļayadhipati. Mr. K. T. Teang reads his name as
Satyfáraya-Dhruvarkja-Indravarma. He was inclined at tirst to read 'yuvardja, instead of dhruvaraja; but, as pointed out by him, the letter, as engraved, is certainly not yu, and a further difficulty is raised by the epithet adimahabappúravansakulatilaka, for, if Indravarma was e Chalukya Yuvardja, he could have been only of the Chalukya lineage. I cannot explain bappara, any more
