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JANUARY, 1918)
MADHAVACHARYA AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHERS
ing the province on the West Coast from his capital Chandragupti, had Madhava, disciple of Kriyâsakti, for his minister :
कलासनान्मारपभूमिपालः संप्राप्य राज्य विशि पश्चिमावां । गोमतशेले वरचंद्रगुप्तो स्थिस्वा सुखं सम्यगपालवस्प्रजाः ॥ धर्मेण तस्व परिपालबम प्रजानां राहोऽधिराज्यगहनांबुधिकर्षधारः। प्रज्ञावलेन गुरुमप्यतिसंवधानी मंत्री महानजानि माधवनामधेवः॥ क्रियाशक्किगुरुः साक्षात् तेजसा श्रीत्रियंबकः।
परंजवस्य संधामी भार्गवस्येव कांकरः। Another inscription at the Madhukesvara temple at Banavasi,12 dated A. D. 1368, records a grant while Madhava-mantri was governing the Banavase 12,000 under Bukka 1.13 Another 1. dated A. D. 1384, registers a grant by Madhava-mantri, the great houseminister of Harihara II, while in the Male-rajya or the mountainous province on the west. The last record that we have to notice in connection with Madhava-mantri is one in which he seems to have made a grant while on his death-bed. 15 From it we learn, as shown by the extracts given below, that by the order of Harihara II Madhava-mantri became the ruler of the Jayantipura or Banavase province; that, having defeated the Turushkas, he wrested the Konkaņa capital Goa from them and reestablished the worship of Saptanatha and other gods there ; that in the year A. D. 1391 he made a grant of the village Kuchara, naming it MAdhavapura after himself, to 24 learned Brahmans; and that on his death another Brahman named Narahari, who was a favourite disciple of Vidyasankara (i.e., Vidyâtirtha), was sent out to Goa by Harihara II as the governor of the Jayantîpura province.
तस्या(हरिहरस्या )ज्ञया माधव मंत्रिवर्य: प्रशाज्जयंतीपुरराज्य? मह्यं । यन्मंत्रालया पुरुत्सृजंतोऽप्यरातयः स्वास्थ्यमही भजते । आशांतविश्रांतवशाः स मंत्री दियो भिगीधुमेहता बलेन । गोवामिदा कोंकणराजधानीमन्येन मन्येऽझणवर्णवेन ॥ प्रतिष्ठितांस्तत्र तुरुष्कसंघानुपास्य दीष्णा भुवनकवीरः। उन्मूलितानामकरोत्पतिष्ठां श्रीसप्तनाथादिसुधाभुजां यः ।। तस्मिन् गते क्षितितले सति कीतिशेष सन्मांत्रभिहरिहरी नृपतिर्विचार्य। गोवापुरे महरिमंविषमावरेण राध्ये पदे समभिषिच्य पुरी जयस्याः।। विद्याशंकरसत्कृपामृतरसासारेण संवर्धिती
विस्कल्पमहीरुहो नरहरिक्षोणीपतिर्भासते । शके त्रयोदशाधिकत्रिशतीत्तरसहने गते वर्तमानप्रजापतिसंवत्सरे श्रीमन्महामंत्रीश्वर उपनिषन्मार्गप्रवर्तकाचार्यः श्रीमन्माधवराजः कुचरनामानं माम माधवपुरामिति प्रथितनामधेयं कृत्वा चतुर्विशतिम्राह्मणेभ्यो [दत्तवान् ].
.. This record, too, applies the title Upanishanmarga-pravartakacharya to Madhavamantri, whom it also designates Madhavarâja. The epithet bhuvanaikavira applied to him shows that he was a great warrior. Another inscription,10 of A. D. 1368, styles him. " Mâdarasa Odeyar, the great minister of Bukka I."
" Indian Antiquary, IV, 2063J. B. Br. B.A.S.,XII, 340. 13Cp. Shikarpur 281, noticed above. 15J. B. Br. K.A.S., IV, 107 and 115.
14. Epi. Car., VIII, Tirthahalli 147. 16 Epi. Car., VII, Shikarpur 282.
