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(Kârttikêya, the god of war); as belonging to the Mânavya gôtra; as being Haritiputras or descendants of an original ancestress of the Harita gôtra;11 as being protected by the Mothers of mankind;13 and as having acquired the crest of a boar through the favour, when he had arisen from sleep, of him (the god Vishnu) whose couch is the ocean of milk. The genealogy commences with Pulikêsin I., who is spoken of by his birudas of Ranavikrama and Satyaáraya; it mentions his son, Kirtivarman I.; but it takes the line direct from the latter to Vishnuvardhana I., entirely passing over his elder brother, Pulikêsin II., in this passage, and only referring to him, as "the glorious Mahárdja," in the passage at the end which contains the date. Pulikêsin II. is similarly passed over in C. and E. The charter was issued by Vishnuvardhana J. himself, as Yuvaraja, from Kurumarathi (or Kurumarathya); and it records the grant of the village of Alandatirtha, in the Srinilaya bhoga. The village granted is probably the modern Alundah' of the map, about thirty-five miles north of Sâtârâ. But, however this may be, the statement that it was on the south bank of the river Bhimarathi, is sufficient to shew that the locality of the authority of Vishnuvardhana I., at this time, was to the west of Long. 77° 21', where the Bhima flows into the Krishna, and was, therefore, within the radius of the Western Chalukya sovereignty. The grant was made on the full-moon day of Kârttika, in the eighth year of "the glorious Maharaja," i. e. of Pulikêsin II.; and the corresponding English date lies in A. D. 616 or 617.
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B. A grant from Chipurupalle in the Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency; edited by me, page 15 above; for a lithograph, see Burnell's South-Indian Paleography, second edition, Plate xxvii, It gives the family-name as Chalukya, The genealogy commences with Pulikêsin II., who is mentioned as "the Mahárája Satyâéraya, the favourite of fortune (érivallabha);" and this grant expressly states that Vishnuvardhana I. was the younger of the two brothers. The charter was issued by Vishnuvardhana I. himself, as Mahárája, from the village of Cherupura in the (P) Paki vishaya; and it records a grant of the village of Kalvakonda in the Dimila vishaya. Cherupura is probably an older form of the name of Chipurupalle itself, where the plates were obtained. But, at any rate, there can be no doubt that the name of the Dimila vishaya has been preserved in the modern village of Dimile, in the Sarvasiddhi Taluka of the same District, fourteen miles towards the south-west from Chipurupalle.. And this identification is sufficient to establish the important point, that the sphere of the Sovereignty of Vishnuvardhana I. now lay on the eastern coast, far away from the Western Chalukya dominions. The grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon in the month Sravana, on the fifteenth day in the fourth month of the eighteenth year of Vishnuvardhana I. himself; the corresponding English date, as shewn on page 4 f. above, is the 7th July, A. D. 632. The Dutaka of the grant, i. e. the officer who conveyed the king's commands to the local officials by whom the charter was then drawn up and delivered, was Atavidurjaya, of the (P) Matsya family.
11 The variants of the first component of the word, in the preambles of the documents, are, Hårfti, here, and in L., V., and perhaps W.; Hariti, in C., F., H., and I.; Hariti, in D., E., G., and J.; and Hârtti, in K., M. to U., and X. In his Sanskrit Literature, p. 143, Prof. Max Müller gives Harita as one of the principal authorities quoted in the Taittiriya-Prátisakhyd. But the gótra-name given by him, is Harita; with the short vowel in both the first and the second syllables (id. p. 383). I should think, therefore, that the correct form of the name is Haritipatra, or more properly Hâritiputra; with the short vowel i in the second syllable. The long vowel & in the first syllable, points to there having been a Harita gôtra as a later offshoot from the Harita gotra. In the same way, the Kasyapa and Kaundinya gotras of epigraphical records, must be offshoots of the original Kasyapa and Kundina gotras of Prof. Max Müller's list. Other similar instances also could be quoted. -The Western Chalukyas also were Haritiputras. But the name was not confined to this family. It applied also to the Early Kadambas (e. g., ante, Vol. VI. p. 31). And in earlier times there were Haritiputras or Hâritiputras in Central India (see ante, Vol. IX. p. 121). 12 These are the divine mothers, or personified energies of the principal deities. They are usually taken as seven in number; viz., Brahmi or Brahmâni, Mâhêévarl, Kaumári, Vaishnavi, Vârâhî, Indrånt or Aindri or Mahendri, and Chamunda. They are closely connected with the worship of Siva; and they attend on Kârttikeya, who was his son. They must have some original connection with the Pleiades, when the principal stars of that group were seven in number. Kârttikêy awas fostered by the Pleiades (Krittikâh); and from this is derived one of his epithets, shanmatura, having six mothers.'
