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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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lineage, 14 the members of which were servants of the Chalukya kings, gave the village of Kaluchumbarru to her Guru Arhanandi, for the purposes of the charitable dining-ball of the Jain templo named Sarvalókasraya-Jinabhavana. The Dataka was Katakadhiba; which name is apparently substituted, simply for metrical purposes, for the customary Katakarája 16 The charter was written, and apparently also composed, by Bhagadôva.
24. – Danarnava. .
Three years; A. D. 970 to 973. He was the elder brother by a different mother, and the successor, of Amma II. V. gives his name as Danarnava; and W., in the same way, and also in the form of Dånansipa ; and both of these records describe him as the dvaimátura or half-brother' of Amma II., without any statement as to seniority. X., which again gives his name as Danarnava, states specifically that he was the elder brother, but does not describe him as dvaimátura. The Pittapuram inscription of Saka-Samvat 1124 appears to give his wife's name as Aryadovi. V. and w. state that he reigned for three years; while X. says thirty years, Reckoning forward from the established actual date of the coronation of Amma I., tho accossion of Danarnava is to be placed in A. D. 870.
An Unexplained Interval of Thirty years.
A. D. 978 to 1003. What engued after the three years allotted by V. and W. to the reign of Dånarnava, has not as yet been made clear. X., indeed, states that he reigned for thirty years, and was succeeded immediately by Saktivarman. But V. tells us that, after him, "for twenty-seven years a feverish desire, to obtain a suitable lord, consumed the earth, which was without a leader (andyika);"16 and that then "her fever was assuaged by Chalukya-Chandra, i. e. Saktivarman." The same statement, in almost identical words, is made in the Godavari grunt which has been noticed above ander No. 17, Bêta-Vijayaditya V. W. says that "for twenty-seven years, through the spite of fate (daiva-durihaya), the land of Vengi was without a leader (anáyika)." And another record (Sir Walter Elliot's Telugu Sasanams, p. 777) says that the Andhra country, together with Kalinga, was without a master (asvá mika). In these passages, the period is twice distinctly specified as twenty-seven years; and the same implication is made in the passage in X. which, omitting this period, puts the reign of Dânârnava at thirty years. Nevertheless, as Dr. Hultzsch has pointed out (loc. cit. p. 32, note 10), if the lengths of the immediately preceding and following reigns, - two on either side, – are stated correctly, this period must have extended to thirty years. This is determined by the actual dates of coronation recorded for Amma II. and Rajarûja I. And the period can be limited to twenty-seven years, only if we assume that the coronation of RÂjarâja I. was deferred for three years after his actual accession; which does not appear very probable.
This period has been assumed to bave been a time of anarohy (Dr. Burnell's South Indian Palcography, pp. 22, note 6, and 53, note 4); with the suggestion that the anarchy may be fairly attributed to Chola invasions. I suspect that the country was in fact conquered and held for a timo by the Cholas; probably under the immediate predecessor of GangaikondaKô-Rajaraja-Rajakesarivarman. He himself claims a conquest of Vengi (South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 63); but, as his initial date was in A. D. 1003 or 1004 (ante, Vol. XIX. p. 72), that would not account for the period in question. Moreover, the people of Vengî then had a ruler of their own again, in the person of Chalukyachandra-Saktivarman. It would seem, therefore, that his claim is merely an honorary one, based on an event that really occurred before his
time.
1. Evidently identical with the Pattavardhini fainily, which has been mentioned in two or three places above. 15 See page 267 above, note 5. 16 Iu line 18, labrim is a mistako, of the original, for labdhum.
