Indian Antiquary Vol 12

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 19

JANUARY, 1883.] A RASHTRAKUTA GRANT FROM MYSORE.
guppe-nâma Avinita-mahâdhiraja cha1 dattena padiye år-odam-ûrû (pl. III)rol pannir-kkandugan geydu ambalimannum Talavanapurado! talavittiyaman Pogarigeleyol pannir-kkan dugam Pirikereyolam rajamânam-anumodana-pannirkkandugai manoharam dattam.
(The village) named Badaneguppe, situated in the Edenâd Seventy of the Pânâd Ten Thousand, which (the king) named Avinita had given to Vandanandi Bhattara, disciple, &c. &c., of the Desika-gana and Kondakunda-anvaya, the minister of Akalavarsha, favourite of the earth, in the year 388, the month Mâgha, Monday, the asterism being Svâti, the 5th of the bright fortnight, having obtained, the gift being also (confirmed) by Avinita Mahadhiraja, presented the charming (village) to the Sri-Vijaya Jina temple of Talavananagara; having assigned twelve kandugas in each of the six associated villages, the ambali, the tala-vritti in Talavanapura, twelve kandugas in Pogarigele and twelve kandugas with enjoyment of the royal rights in Pirikere.
The grant was therefore one made by the minister of A kâ lavarsha, with the sanction of the Ganga king Avinita. Now it scarcely admits of doubt that Akâla varsha must have been a Ratta monarch: and from the silence of the minister regarding his own name, and the absence of all particulars as to himself and his sovereign, it may be conjectured that this Mantri was in exile in the Ganga territories. And if from the fact that nearly all the Govindas, and only the Govindas, among the Rattas were called Prabhûtavarsha, it may be inferred that the relations between the peculiar titles and certain names of the kings of that line were constant, A kâ
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lavarsha would indicate a Krishna Raja. But this is the name of the Ratta. king whose son Indra was destroyed by the Chalukya king Jayasimha on the first invasion by the Chalukyas. On such grounds this event might be placed early in the 5th century.
With regard to the Pûnâdu Ten Thousand, it may be pointed out that it corresponds with the Padi-nâd, or Ten Nâd country of the 16th century. The name survives in the existing Hadinâ du, now corrupted into Hadinâru, a village on the Kabbani river not far from its junction with the Kâveri, and the scene of the romantic adventure to which the royal family of Maisur trace their origin."
Pûnâdu, Punnâdu or Punnâța, as it is variously written, seems also to be indicated by the Pannuta in Lassen's map of Ancient India according to Ptolemy;" and by the Pannata of Colonel Yule's map of Ancient India, "ubi beryllus.""
Since writing the above, I have through the kindness of Mr. R: Sewell seen a grant of the Punnâta Râjas which must belong to early in the 6th century. In it their succession is thus given :
1. Kasyappa Ráshtravarmma.
2.
Nagadatta, his son.
Singa Varmma, son of the last.
His son (not named).
Skandavarmma, son of the last.
Transcript.
otsav-otpâdana-param
15 This seems to be bha in the fac-simile: but as that gives no intelligible meaning I have read it cha.
16 In the original it is Jinálakke, which literally means for the Jinawar (ala): but it seems more probable that it is a mistake for Jinalayakke.
17 And this in the Gujarat branch as well as in the main line.
The Kannesvara of the present inscription may be
3.
4.
5.
6. Ravidatta, his son.
The addition to the first name may point to a suzerainty of the Rashtrakutas. But from other inscriptions we know that in the time of Skandavarmma the Punnâd kingdom was annexed to the Ganga dominions by Avinîta who married the king's daughter.
1. Svasti vistrita-viśâda-yaso vitâna-visadikrit-sa-chakravala-karavâla-praval-âvatamsa-virâjita
Jayalakshmi-samâlin
gita-daksha-dakehipå-bhūri-bhnjarggalah
galita-sara-sauryya-rasa-visara-vikhalikṛit-âgrå
ri-varggal vargga-traya-varggan-aika-nipunâchalâ-bhârav-orvvi-visesha-nirjjit-orvvi-manda!
reconciled with Krishna.
19 Mysore Inscriptions, Yelandur Inscription, No. 175. so Wilks: also Mysore Gazetteer, vol. I, p. 239.
1 Indische Alterthumskunde, vol. III.
Dr. Smith's Atlas of Ancient Geography.
3 Ind. Ant. vol. V, p. 140, vol. VII, p. 175; Mys. Ine. pp. 292, 295.