Indian Antiquary Vol 14

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1885.
by Kirtivarman I., the Naga kings transferred time of Satyaśraya, Dévasaktio in the time of their allegiance to the Chalukyas. Accordingly Vikramaditya I., and Pogilli in the time of we find, as their vassals, Durgasakti' in the ! Vinayaditya I."
AN OLD-KANARESE INSCRIPTION AT TÊRDAL.
BY K. B. PÅTHAK, B.A.; MIRAJ. Z'érdAl is a large village belonging to the The student of ancient Kanarese literature Sangli State in the Southern Maratha country. knows that Abhinava-Pampa speaks of Srutain the Jaina basti at this place, there is a stone- kirtti-Traividya as the author of the poem tablet, containing an inscription consisting of in question. Mr. Rice rightly conjectures that three separate parts.
Śrutakirtti must have been a contemporary of The first part, which ends in line 56, records Pampa himself. But neither Mr. Rice nor Mr. a grant made by the Mandalika Gonkid & Kittel is able to tell us the date of Pampa. At the varasa or Goika, in Saka 1045 (A.D. 1123- end of the Kanarese commentary on the Samá24), to the god Nôminatha, established by him. dhisataka, however, Møghachandra says that he self, and mentions, as contemporaries of his, wrote his work-vitata-yasd-nidhi Papana the Western Chalukya emperor Vikram - sutange tiliv-antu pochcha-posa-kannada birditya VI., and his feudatory Karta viry a "in very modern Kanarese, so that the son of II. of the Ratta family of Saundatti and Pampa, an ocean of fame spread everywhere, Belgaum. The word ra!!, according to Tri. could understand it." Meghachandra, therevikrama, is a Prikrit form of the Sanskrit fore, was a contemporary of Pampa. And ráshtra ; and it must have been assamed as Méghachandra's son, Viranandi, finished his i family title by Kartavirya and his prede- writing of the Achárasára in Śaka 1076, the ressors, in honour of the Rashtrakúta emperor Srimukha sasivatsara, on Monday the first day Krishna II., whose descendants they professi of the bright fortnight of Jyaishtha. From to be. The Samanta Nimba, mentioned in this, it is easy to conclude that Pampa lived line 33, is the same person who is spoken of as shortly before Saka 1076. The date of our Nimbaraja in the Kolhapur inscriptions and is inscription, which mentions Śrutakirtti-Traipraised by Padinanandî, the pupil of Subha- vidya in line 34, is Šaka 1045. The interval chandra, as the "crest-jewel of Símantas," in between this and the composition of the the concluding prasasti of the Ékatoasaptati. Achárasára, is thirty-one years. SrutakirttiMost of the Jaina ascetics mentioned in this Traividya must have written his work shortly inscription are well known as authors among after Saka 1045. But, as he did not put his the Jainas, who cherish their memory and real name to the composition, the authorship of read their works to this day.
the Raghavapandaraya must have been a secret, But the great importance of this part of the even to his contemporaries. And Pampa, who, inscription lies in this, that it enables us to as a Jaina and a poet must have come into conclear up the mystery that hangs over the tact with him, has done well in preserving authorship of the Raghavapándaviya.
this interesting fact about the authorship of it." • ante, Vol. VII. p. 106.
known as the work of Dhananjaya. At the end of the Dynneties of the Kanarese Districte, p. 10.
8th chapter we read :10 Bhanusakti, Durgabakti, Devasakti, and Pogilli, इति धनंजयस्य कृती महाकाव्ये राघवपांडवीये रावणपांडवwere Sendra or Sendraka chieftains; but the Lakshme shwar inscription, which mentions Durgasakti, and his
लंकाद्वारावतीप्रवेशकथनं नामाष्टमः सर्ग: father, Kundasakti, and grandfather, Vijayabakti,- tells And the concluding verse of the 1st chapter runs us that the Sendrakas belonged to the lineage of the thus :Bhujagendras or Serpent-Kings. -A copper-plato grant,
को वा कविः पुरामिमां परमार्थवृत्त्या recently brought to my notice by Pandit Bhagwanlal Indrajt, gives us also the name of the Sendraka chieftain
शक्नोति वर्णयितुमत्र विनि (णे) येन Vallabhasêna-Anandarija, who was the maternal unclo
नित्यं विधि: सततसंनिहितो विभूति of the Western Chalukya king Pulekesin II.-J.F.F. There are two Sanskrit poems oalled Raghuopan
नान्यादा सृजति यत्र धनंजयाय ।। ५२ ॥ qaviya. Colebrooke gives an account of the Brahmamical work of this namo, in his Essays, Vol. II. p. 98.
From this it is plain that Srutakirtti-Traividya and
Dhananjaya were names of one and the same writer. But the Jaina poem referred to above, the authorship of
Nor is it necessary to mention here that the author of which is ascribed by Pampa to Srutakirtti-Traividya, is the Dhonarlijaya-k jaha was a Digambara Jaina of the much longer than its Brahmanical namesake, and is Kamtaka.