Indian Antiquary Vol 16

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

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JANUARY, 1887.)
KAUTHEM GRANT OF VIKRAMADITYA V.
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are introduced again in line 32, in the state. The name of Yasovarman is rather a peculiar ment that there was a brother of Vikrama- one; inasmuch as the Miraj grant, which is an ditya, whose son again was Kirttivarman. It inscription of Jayasimha III., another son of the is most improbable that the family archives, if same person, gives his name as Dasavarman; otherwise continuous and correct, should fail so does the Yêwûr inscription; and also all only in respect of the name of the brother of the other records, known to me, which inVikramaditya II. It is also unlikely that two clude this part of the genealogy and do not brothers should each have a son named Kirtti- pass him over without mention. Now, the varman. The true explanation seems to be dates of Satyaśraya II. and Vikramaditya V. that the drafter of some earlier record, pro- indicate that Yaśðvarman, or Daśavarman, did bably of the time of Taila II., who first applied not actually reign; and this explains what himself to making out one continuous succes- was, at the time, rather a puzzling expression sion, had, on the one side, authentic informa- in the Miraj grant,* in a verse not included in tion up to the time of Taila I., and was able the present inscription, which describes Vikraon the other side, to make out the correct maditya V. as supporting the earth “behind succession down to Kirttivarman II., from the the back, or in the absence," i.e. in succession still earlier charters. He probably knew that after the death, of his "elder father," i.e. his Taila I. was at any rate not a son of Kirtti- father's elder brother, Satyasraya II. Again, varman II. But he sought to somehow or if the copy is correct, one of the inscriptions of other connect the two lines. And, failing to Vikramaditya V. himself," speaks of him devise any other expedient, he did this, clum- distinctly as the son of Satyasraya II.; and sily enough, by repeating the name of Kîrtti- several of the subsequent inscriptions pass varman,-which, it may be noted, does not over Yaśðvarman, or Daśavarman, without any occur again in the later succession, and thus mention, though they do not go so far as to invented Kirttivarman III. as the father of distinctly adopt the above statement regarding Taila II. And then, wishing for some reason the birth of Vikramaditya V. And, again, or other not to identify this Kirttivarman III.
the next verse, applied in the present inscripwith Kirttivarman II., in whose time, he knew, tion to Yaśðvarman, is in the Miraj grant as shewn by the latter half of the verse in
applied to Satyaśraya II. These facte, put line 31f., the Western Chalukya power had together, seem to indicate that Vikramaditva suffered some serious reverse, he introduced, V. really was the son by birth of Yaśðvarman, as his father, a conveniently unnamed brother but, in addition to being the successor of of a king Vikramaditya, whom he undoubtedly Satyakraya II., was adopted by him. As intended to be identified with the genuine king regards the two forms of his father's name it Vikramaditya II. ; and so he completed the is difficult to imagine how such & variation, direct genealogical connection that he had in and much more any actual mistake, should view.
occur within so short & time. I can only Tails II. married Jakavys (1. 44), a daughter point out that, in the Miraj grant, the metre" of king Bhammaha," the Ratta," the orna- requires the reading Daśavarman'; o also, I ment of the family of the Rashtrakatas. Their think, in all the other inscriptions that give bons were satyAsraya II. (1. 46), and his the name in that form. In the present younger brother Yakovarman, Yasovarman's inscription, on the other hand, the text is wife was Bhagyavati (1.51). And their son altogether different; and, though the metre" was the reigning monarch, Vikramaditya V.
does not absolutely require the reading Yaso(1. 53.)
varman, yet these are the syllables which, in This is evidently a Prakrit word.-If it is proper original rendering, on imperfect materials, of the Miraj name, it may be compared with Khottiga, the only other grant and the Ylwar inscription, I can find no grounds name in the Rahtrakata genealogy that is not known for specifying Kakka III. as the father of JAkavv.. also in its Sanskrit form. And, in this case, the position 11.. BAshtrak Qta of Bhammahn in the genealogy has still to be determined. so ante. Vol. VIII. p. 17-asau nija-jyeahtha-pituh Others of the names also had Prikrit forms; thus,
paróksharh babhara drrasi-vritar dharitrim. Dhruva is also mentioned as Dhôra ; and Govinda V.
* At Ålar in the Gadag Taluk of the Dharw lind. Die as Gojjiga.-If it is only an epithet or biruda, it probably denotos the last Rashtrakūta king, Kakka or
trict; Elliot MS. Collection, Vol. I. p. 88ff. Karka III., who is montioned under the name of Kar.
Upajati of Indravajrů and Upendravajri. karn in line 41 above.-Apart from this and from my sika (Anushtubb).