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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(MAY, 1903.
family of the Rashtrakatas, the glorions Krishnarajadays, was continuing, augmenting with an ever greater and greater increase, so as to endure as long as the moon and sun and stars might last," his feudatory (tat-pádapadn-ipajídin) the Mahasamanta Prithvirams, who had attained the panchamahasabdu, gave as a sarranamasya-grant (land measuring) eighteen nivartanas, situated in four places, to the temple of Jinêndra which had been founded by himself (mva-ldrita-Jinêndrabhavandya). And it adds that the allotment made by Prithvirama was given again by (the Ratta prince) Kartavirya (II.) (1. 19) to his own preceptor.
Then, in lines 21 to 26, the record makes a more formal mention of Kartavirys II. 88 a feudatory (tat-pddapadm-ópajfrin) of the Western Chalukya king Tribhavanamalladêva-(Vikramaditya VI.); and it describes Kartavirya II. as a Mahamandalegara who had attained the panchamahdsabda, as the supreme lord of Lattalûr the best of towns, as being heralded by the sounds of the musical instrument called trivali, as being an ornament of the family of the Rattas, and as having the sendúraldichhana or red-lead create and the suvarna Garudad hvaja or banner of golden Garuda. Then, without any further allusion to Pșithvirams and the persons mentioned in connection with him, the record presents the Ratta genealogy. Here, it first mentions Kartavirya I. (line 27), as born in the race of the Rattas (1. 26), as a son of Nanna, and as a feudatory of the Western Chalukya king) Ahavamalla-(Sômêsvara I.). It takes the genealogy as far as Sena II. (1. 36), or Kalasena (1. 37). And then, in lines 39 to 41, it registers a grant made by Vira-Permadideva, meaning of course Vikramaditya VI., on a specified day in the month Pausha of the Dhâtu smivatsara, the twenty-first of the years of the time of Vira-Vikrama, falling in December, A. D. 1098. It then refers to a grant made at some previous time by either the first or the second Ratta prince named Kannskaira (1. 41-42). And then, after some of the usual benedictive and imprecatory verses, it ends with the words "the Jinalaya of Vira-Permadideva."
2.- The copper-plate record of A. D. 1208 from Bhoj, in the Chikođi täluka of the Belgaum district, published by me in Vol. XIX. above, p. 242 ff., says, in lines 6 to 9, in opening the pedigree of the Rattas of Saundatti with the mention of Sena II., that, -asti Ratt-ahray8 vambah Krishnaraja-kpit-Ônnatih ..... asmin .... .. samjâtas
.. . Song-râjas, -- "there is the race that has the appellation of Batta, the elevation of which was effected by Krishnaraja; in it there was born king Sona (II.)."
3.- The inscription of A. D. 1218 at Násargi, in the Sampgaon talaka of the Belgaum district, opens with some verses which include a prayer that the god Siva will fulfil the desires of the princes, lords of the Kundi district in the Kuntals country in the land of Bharata, who were born in the lineage of the Rattas. And then, in introducing a portion of their genealogy, it presents the following passage in lines 9 to 14 -
Srl-varan-Achchu(chya)ta sakaļa-lôka-hit-artthay-udagra-daitya-vi
drivananæagi Kri(kļi)shņa-vesarim Yadu-vambadol-oldu puttid-- nti vasudbi-talim pogale puttidha(da)n=opp-ire Krishnaraja-vi
sv-avani-Vallabham Tuliga-bhupa-sikhamaņi Batta-vambadol II Ghanalo-gnaryyar vibhavam gabhirav=anaghar såhittyavekchkrave
rpp-initum kál tanagunkkaleáv=aņay-enal ári-Krishna-Kamdhara-bhuvanit-Adhisanol-iruv-anyar-eney=alt-a Kțishộan-i Krishnan-em
b-inegań Ratta-kul-ambaj-arkkan-esedam tân-erdade vanniperin 11 Imt 11-esev-akhila-guņamgaļin Gamdamarttamdam . Vikramachakravartti Kaohohogarh!? Tuligan-embranupamam-appa birudin=amka-mal-Alarksitanm18-appa Krishnaraja-raj[A]nva
* See Ep. Ind. VOL VII. p. . • Metre, Utpalam álik. 10 Metre, Mattebba vikridita 11 Prove, as far as the word arangalo!.
12 My published text gives kabbegart, which I took to be a variant of kabbiga, 'poet.' Bat we know, now, from the Atakar inscription of A. D. 949-50, that that was a wrong reading for kachchega; 100 Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 58, text line 8, and p. 55, Bota 9.
13 Read darksianum,
