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EKAMRANATHA INSCRIPTION OF GANAPATI.
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EKAMRANATHA INSCRIPTION OF GANAPATI; DATED SAKA-SAMVAT 1172.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; BANGALORE. THIS inscription is engraved on the north wall of the second prülürt of the Saiva temple of
kamranátha, the largest of the numerous temples at Kanchipura. It consists of 17 Sanskřit verses in the Grantha character and professes to be an edict (súsana, verses 1, 15, 16, 17) of king Ganapati, who traced his descent from the race of the Sun (verses 5 and 11) and whose immediate ancestors were :
Betmaraja (v. 8). His successor: Prodaraja (v. 9).
, : Rudradeva (v. 10). The eldest of his four younger brothers: Mahadeva (v. 11).
His son: Ganapati (v. 12). Prodaraja is said to have constructed a large tank, which he called Jagatikêsari-tataka after a surname of his (v. 9). Ganapati claims to have defeated Simhaņa and the Kalinga king, and to have the kings of Lata (Gujarat) and Gauda (Bengal) for vassals (v. 14). His minister (sachiva) and general (sainyapála), Samanta-Bhoja, who belonged to the race of Dochi, appears to have held the appointment of governor (chaleradhárin) of Kanchi. He was probably a Brâhmaņa, as he claims to be a member of the Kaśyapagôtra (v. 15). By order of the king, he gave to the Êkamra temple at Kâbchỉ the village of Kaļattur(v. 16). The date of the grant was Tuesday, the eleventh tithi of the dark fortnight of Jyaishtha of Saka 1172 (in words), the cyclic year Saumya (v. 17). According to Mr. Sewell's South Indian Chronological Tables, the corresponding European date is Tuesday, the 8th June, 1249 A. D.
The dynasty to which Ganapati belonged, is not named in the inscription. But the names of two of his predecessors, Prodaraja and Rudradeva, are identical with two kings of the Kakatiya? dynasty of Worangal, Prola and his son Rudradova, who are known from the Anamakonda inscription of Saka 1084.* This close agreement and the mention of Ganapati as one of the Worangal kings in unpublished inscriptions and local records leave no doubt that the two pairs of names are identical, that the Ganapati of the subjoined inscription was the nephew of Rudradova of Worangal, and that, at the time of his reign, Kanohi was included in the territories of the Kakatiya kings. According to the Anumakonda inscription, Prôla's father was called Tribhuvanamalla, while the subjoined inscription mentions Betmaraja as the immediate predecessor of Prôdaraja. It foilows from these two statements that Betmaraja was the real name of the father and predecessor of Prôdaraja, and that Tribhuvanamalla was a biruda of his. Thus a combination of both inscriptions furnishes the following short genealogy of the Kakatiyas of Worangal :
1. Betmaraja, surnamed Tribhuvanamalla, of the race of the Sun. 2. Prôdaraja or Prola, surnamed Jagatikësarin.
3. Rudradeva 4. Mahadeva. Three other sons. (Saka 1084).
5. Ganapati?
(Saka 1172). 1 Kalattûr is now a large village, after which the next Railway station south of Chinglepat is called. 2 Thus the word is spelled in the Prataparudriya. The Anumakonda inscription has the forms Kakatya and Kakatiya.
9 This name is spelled Oramgallu in Brown's Telugu Dictionary. In a Telugu chronicle (Madras Journal for 1881, p. 238) we find the forma Orugallu, Single Rock,' wbicla tallies with the Sanskrit nano Ekabila; see below, note 12.
+ Published by Dr. Fleet, ante, Vol. XI. pp. 9 f. • Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. II. pp. 114 ff. and 172 ff. • Proda or prola is a tadbhava of the Sanskrit prauha, see Brown, 8. v. prola.
7 According to local records, Ganapati was the son of Rudradeva and nephew of Mahadeva ; see Wilson's Mackenzie Collection, p. 77, and Taylor's Catalogue, Vol. III. p. 483. An unpublished inscription, which is quoted by Sir W. Elliot, Coins of Southern India, p. 83, agrees with the Ekámranátha inscription.
