Indian Antiquary Vol 49

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

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All these objections are applicable even to the identifications proposed by Mr. Smith. In fact, no evidence whatever can be adduced to show that there was any connection between the princes named in the legends on the Kolhapur coins and the Satavahana dynasty. Now, it is to be remembered that Ptolemy, the Greek geographer, while describing the cities and villages of inland Ariake, speaks of Baithana as the royal seat of Siro-Polemaios and Hippokoura as the royal seat of Baleokouros. Baithana is, of course, Paithan and Siro-Polemaios, Sri-Pulumâvi of the Satavahana dynasty. Hippokoura has not yet been satisfactorily identified. But Sir Ramkrishna Bhandarkar was the first to identify Baleokouros with Vilivâyakura of the Kolhapur coins, and this identification is universally accepted. 15 It is to be noted that Ptolemy speaks of two different places and of two different kings as reigning there. The two kings, therefore-Pulumâvi and Vilivâyakura-must be taken to be different persons. And to argue that Pulumâvi and Vilivâyakura are the same person, on the analogy that the Prince of Wales, the Earl of Chester and the Duke of Cornwall denoted one individual, is to argue that Pulumâvi is identical not only with Baleokouros (Vilivâyakura) of Hippokoura, but also with Tiastenes (Chashtana) of Ozene (Ujjain) and Kerobothros (Keralaputra) of Karoura (Karur), the two other kings mentioned by Ptolemy.16 Tiastenes and Kerobothros might also be thus taken to be local titles of the Satavahana sovereign, and not personal names of different kings.
We thus find that Vilivâyakura and Sivalakura cannot possibly be identified with any princes of the Satavahana dynasty, but must be taken to be princes belonging to a different line and ruling separately round about Kolhapur. Now, Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji has shown that coins of Vasishthîputra Vilivâyakura have been re-struck by Mâdhariputra Sivalakura, while those of the latter have been re-struck by Gautamiputra Vilivâyakura. The following is, therefore, the order of their succession:
Vasishthiputra-Vilivâyakura or Vilivâyakura I.
1 Madhariputra-Sivalakura.
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Gautamiputra-Vilivâyakura or Vilivâyakura II.
It will thus be seen that there were two kings of this line bearing the name Vilivâyakura, and one of these was a contemporary of Pulumâvi. Who that was we have at present no means to determine.
THE SURROSH K. R. CAMA MEMORIAL PRIZE.
The Committee of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute invite competitive Essays for "The Surrosh K. R. Cama Prize" of the value of Rs. 225 on the following subject:
"Life of Zoroaster in Pahelvi Dinkard as contrasted or compared with the Persian metrical Zarathushtnama."
The Essays should be typewritten or written in a neat, legible hand and should
15 Above, 1918, 153.
reach the Honorary Secretaries, the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Hornby Road, Fort, Bombay, on or before the 15th July 1920. Each Essay should be designated by a motto instead of the writer's name and should be accompanied by a sealed cover containing the name of the competitor and his Post Office address. The competition is open to both Zoroastrians and nonZoroastrians.
18 Above, XIII, 359 and 366.