Indian Antiquary Vol 43

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

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[NOVEMBER, 1914
MISCELLANEA.
THE DATE OF BANKARACHARYA. the name of the king and not merely a component Sir R. G. Bhand Arkar identifies . Aditya of the
part which is the common factor of various comrace of Manu,' mentioned by Sarvajñktman in his
pound nams. Lastly, there ara traditions which Samkahepa-Sariraka with the Chalu k ye king
suggest to us that we should look in this direction VimalAditya. With due deference to his high
for the patron of Sarvajñis. Tae Sankarichirya authority ono may be excused for calling this
of Conjesveram (the Kim Kiti pitha ) olaim; identification in question on the following grounds:
apostolic descant from Sarvajña. and I am told (1) Aditya is not in this case & nams or surnam
that the seat of the Acharya in that madh is style: of the king, byt only & component part of his ats in the Sankara-vijayas, It seems soarosly compound name. There ara many such compound likely that the Yaths of modern tims are of so namse to choose from in the dynsstio lists of the early origin! But if it be accepted that Sarvaja Chilukyas and the Cholas, and both these dynasties had some sort of connection with Conjeeveram claimed descent from Manu. One msy mention it would appaar naturals that he should extol Vijayaditya and Vikram iditys of the ChAlukya the exploits of the Chh!a king (probably his patline and Rajaditya and Gapdarāditya of the Chola ron), who had conquered at lost the southern dynasty. (2) The passage in question implies that and western portions of the Pallava dominions. tho Aditya referred to was very powerful king: (The northern provinces were conquered by aft
Tara! The
Parantaka only. See Madras Epigraphist's Report Chalukya power was oclipsed by that of the tor 1912-13. pago 94). RAshtrakatas and the Cholas before the 10th
| The initial year of Parantaka is 907 A. D. So century. It would therefore be a piece of fulsome Aditya, who ruled for 27 years, must have ruled flattery to speak of the Chilukya king as ruling between 890 and 907. If Sarvaja balonge I to the earth' and as having his commands never this pario 1, Sankarichirya who was his Guru's disobeyed." (3) There is no evidence, nor is there Guru must have lived in the earllor hall of the 9th any tradition, that Sarvajña visited tho Chalukya century A. D. country or was patroniged by its king'.
Traditions of the Kerala country point to th> Now, the Cholas also claim ad descent from Manu, same conclusion. Sankarloh lrya is bolioved to and in an even more positive way than the
have introduced som) pasuliar customs among the Chalukyas. Whoross the latter claim to be of the
Nambutiri Brahmans. The date of their introduo. Minavya-gotra, the former have Manu Chola as tion is raprasentoi by the Kali rookoning of one of thole (mythleal) ancestors. There is moro STT TT TT . This works up to 1434169 days than one Aditya in Chola history, but the earliest after the beginning of the Kaliyuga, ...., 885 A. D. of them is Rajakesarivarman Aditya I, the father One school of Kerala tradition holds that the of Parantaka, who most probably ruled from 880 Kollam era commemorates the introduction of to 907 A.D. The Tiruvélangadu plates refer these customs into Malabar. According to arother to his conquest of Tordai Mapdalam (the Pallave school, the ora commemorates the departure to country) in these terms: "Having conquered
Mecca of Cheraman Perumal, the last of the in battle tho Pallava with his brilliant army sovereigns of United Kerala, who, we are told by though (he was) Aparajita (which means literally Mr. Logan, (Malabar Vol, L page 256), “ died at
the unconquered 'J he took possession of his queen Zephir (in Arabis) where his tomb is still to be the earth and accomplished his object in this seen." According to the Keralolpatti this ruler direction algo." (Verse 49. See Annual Report of was a contemporary of Sankaracharya the Madras Epigraphist for 1906. Part II Page 66).
S. V. VENKATESVARAN. The opithet traft would therefore be appro
Kumbakonam priato il applied to this king. Further, Aditya' is
College, 16th Dec.
1 The earliest epigraph which mentions the Matha of Sankar ohirya at Conjeoveram is probably the copper-plate of Vijayagapagpala, whioh I have sent for publioation in the Epigraphia Indioa. 10 belongs to 1291 A. D. Tho stone inscriptions of Tiruvanaikaval copied by the Archaeological Survey in 1908 Aro useless for our purpose, as their datorare unoertain.
? Conjeovoram was already under the Choles in the reign of Vijay Alaya, the father of Aditya L His inscriptions bave been discovered there. (See Madras Epigraphist's Report for 1909. Seo. 35).
3 If the Konguddaa Rajakkal be believed, he was the conqueror of the Kongus as well, in which ongo the conquest must have been completed by Parintaka, who is known to have subdued the Kongus. The Chera king was his friend and ally (Ep. Rep 1912, p. 61) if not a dependent ally (Ep. Rep 1911 p. 50). Aditya was the most powerful king of his time, as the Pandya power had boon already crushed by the Pallava Aparajita at a battle near Kumbakonam. (803 Hultzach: South Indian Inscriptions Vol. II, p. 384).