Indian Antiquary Vol 42

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 279

OOTOBER, 1913.)
KINSARIYA INSCRIPTION OF DADHICHIKA
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to the north-western frontier of India. Malayaketa's predecessor, Parvataka, aleo belonged to the same regions. Not a single southern nation is mentioned in bis army. Malayaketa thus obviously has no connection with the Malaya of the south. Further, no Malayal6 in the north-west is known to any branch of Indian literature. And as Malaya is nowhere associated with the name of Malayaketu's alleged father and predecessor the mlechchha Parvataka, it does not seem to be connected either with any place name or with any tribal designation. In view of these considerations Malayaketu can not be taken as representing originally a Samskruta name. It appears to be merely a samskrütised edition of the original mlechchha name of the mlechchha invader, I propose to read Malayaketu as Salayaketu, taking the latter as a Hindu edition of Seleucus. There is a deceptive similarity between the letters ma and sa of the Gupta and later scripts, and the change from an unfamiliar Salaya-into the familiar Malaya.would bave been an easy process in the course of copying manuscripts. Whom else could Indian tradition have intended by the mlechchha king *Malayaketu' invading from the north-western frontier with a huge army of Greek and other (auxiliary) forces against Chandragupta the Maurya than the Greek Seleucus P If by the invasion of Malayaketu the Greek invasion16 alone could be meant, the proposed reading Salayaketu in place of Malayaketu, I submit, has a very strong case.
KINSARIYA INSCRIPTION OF DADHICHIKA (DAHIYA)
CHACHCHA OF VIKRAMA SAMVAT 1056.
BY PANDIT RAMKARNA; TODHPUR. An article on the above has been prepared and sen by me for publication in the Epigraphia Indica, bnt a summary of it is given here for the information of those interested in the ancient history of Rajputana.
The inscription belongs to the reign of a prince called Chachoba, a feudatory of Durlabharaja of the imporial Chahamâna dynasty and whose genealogy is as follows:
Våkpatirâja Simharaja
Durlabharaja Chachcha is spoken of as a prince descended from the well-known rishi Dadhichi. The inscription unfolds the following genealogy of this chief :
Meghanada Vairisimha Chachcha
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Yasahpashta
Uddbarana Chachcha is styled Dadhichika or Dahiyaka, which is now-a-days called Dahiya. The following remarka translated from the Hindi Marwar Census Report of 1891 would be found interesting:
"Some people hold that Dahiyás are the one-half race that goes to complete the thirteen and #half races 'of Rathors. They once ruled over Parbatbar and Jalor, but now they are scattered
18 Mab Amabopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastrt has kindly drawn my attention to the fact that the term Malaya in itself a Dravidian word meaning 'mountain.' cy. Caldwell, Grammar of the Dravidian Languages, 2nd ed., p. 21.
10 It is probable that some of the details of the invasion of Beleuous might have been confused with the details of the invasion of Menander, e. g., the march upon the capital Pataliputra might have been transferred from the latter to the former, although it is not impossible that Seleuous was actually rosed into a long maroh in the interior a strategio polioy largely and very successfully followed later on by the Parthians.