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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(AUGUST, 1891.
is a copper-plate grant from the Gôdâvari District (No. 77 in Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Madras, Vol. II. p. 11). The copper-plate grant states, in the regular place, between Amma I. and Tadapa,- that Vijayaditya V. had the other name of Beta. Both the records continue the genealogy, in the usual manner, down to the time of Vikrama-Choda, who, they say, went to govern the Chôļa mandala, leaving Vengi without a ruler or king of its own (nayaka-rahita ; virojaka); and at that point they introduce this new line of descent. They record that the son of Amma I., ejected by Tadapa, was Bota. His son was Satyasraya. His son was Vijayaditya, who married Vijayamahadevi of the Solar Race. Their son was Vishnuvardhana. His son was Mallapadova, "an ornament of the Lunar Race (i.e. the Chalukya family);" he married Chandaladevi. Their son was Vijayaditya, who is described as "a very moon to cause the increase of the ocean which is the Chalukya lineage, and as “the king of the Vengt country (Vengi-désa-vasundharesa);" his wife was Lakshmidevi. And their son was Vishnuvardhana. The Pittaparam inscription stops here. The transcription of it is imperfect; it does not actually include the name of Vishnuvardhana, and it seems to call him by the second name of Malla; but it speaks of him as “a portion of Vishņa (Vishnv-ansa), and there seems to be no doubt that he is the person who is specifically called Vishņuvardhana in the Godavari grant; it states that he was anointed in Saka-Samvat 1124, on the tenth tithi in the dark fortnight of Jyêshtha, on Sunday, and under the Aśvini nak. shatra ; here the given Saka year has to be applied as an expired year, and the corresponding English date is Sunday, 16th June, A. D. 1202. The Godavari grant, also, does not continue the descent any further. At the above point, it introduces the mention of a king' named Bhima, of the Solar Race, whose wife was Chandaladevi, and who acquired the hereditary sovereignty of his grandfather and other ancestors, through the favour of the glorious Chalukya-Choda. His son was Vishnuvardhana, who married Ganga. And their son was Mahadeva. The charter, addressed to the officials of the Bengurunanţi vishaya, was issued by Mahadeva, who is described as "a Mahamandalesvara who had attained the pancha. mahdsabda; "as" born in the Solar Race;" as "& supporter of the Chalukya sovereignty;" and "as the refuge of all the Brahmans of the town of Vengt;" he was plainly a feudatory of the Vishộuvardhana, son of Vijayaditya and Lakshmidevi, who was descended from BêtaVijayaditya V., son of Amma I. This grant also contains a date; but the passage is partially destroyed, and I cannot make anything satisfactory out of it.10
18. – Tada pa.
One month ; A, D, 925. He was a son of Yuddhamalla I., mentioned above just before No. 14, Bhima I.; according to O. and S., he succeeded Vijayaditya V.; according to the other grants, he came immediately after Amma. I. His name occurs, - in M. and N., as Taha; in 0., as Talape; in P., R., T., and V., as Talapa; in Q. and S., As Tala; and in V., W., and X., as Tadapa. He attained the throne by ejecting the child Vijayâditya V., No. 17; and, in his turn, he was conquered and ejected,
The Pittåpuram inscription names six younger sons of Saty Abraya; but the names of some of them are not quite certain in the transcription. - It also names the wife of Satyábrays ; Apparently as Gangami-Gaurt.
The year is given in numerical words, -ak.6bde vida-nétra-kshiti-gati-ganith; and is sot distinctly speci. fied, either as current, or m expired. Taking it as an expired year, with Prof. K. L. Chhatre's Tables, the tithi ended on the Sunday, st about 52 ghatis, 5 palas, after mean sunrise (for Bombay). With Prof. Jacobi's Tables, it ended on the Sunday, at about 28 hrs, 16 min., 58 gh. 10 p., for Ujjain; but with reference to apparent sunrise, and at Rajamahendri, it would probably end on the Monday, and so we should have an instance of the use of the current tithi with the week-day on which it began, By all the three systems for the longitudes of the ending points of the nakshatras, the moon was in Afvint at sunrise on the Sunday, and up to about 11 hrs. 10 min., 27 gh. 55 p. - In Baka-Samvat 1124 current, the tithi began at about 57 gh. 46 p. on Sunday, 27th May, A. D. 1201, and onded at about 51 gh. 25 p. on the Monday. But this oannot be the real day; because the tithi did not include any hours of daylight on the Sunday moreover, the moon did not enter Asvin till about 10 hrs. min., = 47 gh. 40 p., on the Monday.
10 The extant words are ...... TA-Nayana-muni-gamita-Sakar farat. Phalguna-m...... which seem to point to Baka-Samvat 721. The syllables muni must be a mistake for something meaning'eleven.'
