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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(Dombes, 1994
प्रापचेषु कलिकराजमसमं बंशःक्रमामानुजः पुत्रं शत्रुकलत्रनेत्रसलिलस्फीतंप्रतापगुमं । येनार्य त्रितसौर्य कोशमकशकिर्तुं विहायान्वय
क्षोणी दक्षिण कोशलो जनपदो बाहुयेगार्जितः ।। I have already quoted Dr. Kielhorn's interpretation of both the verses in the commencement of this article. In the original, six letters in the third line of verse 4 are broken off. I have conjeoturally supplied them as given within the brackets. If they can stand, I would interpret the measure of Kokalla's prowess to be the great army of Tritasauryas, whom he apparently defeated and thus exalted his fame. In verse 6 Kalingaraja's high-mindedness is exhibited by hiş generous act of leaving his own king's army with the intention of tessening the burden on the enemy's treasury. So valourous was Kalinga that the fight would have continued with the greatest vigour, entailing a heavy expenditure on the enemy's treasury, if he had not left the army and directed his attention to fields and pastures new.' If the meaning, as given by Dr. Kielhorn, is accepted, it would indicate the poverty of the Kalachuri treasury. Thus instead of being praise, it would be a reproach, implying great weakness, in that it was incapable of supporting even a scion of the family and a great warrior to boot. The question will then arise as to who the Tritasauryas were. In the Vedas we find a tribe named Tsitsu, whose king Divod Asa was very powerful. His son Sud Asa fought the biggest battles noticed in the Vedas. His opponents combined against him and yet they were defeated. To overpower such a strong tribe would have been an act exceed. ing the limits of fame. The Tritsus are said to have belonged to the solar race, while the Chedis, who also find a mention in the Vedas, obviously belonged to the lunar race and were famous for their generosity. In the eighth mandala of the Rigveda it is stated that a Chediputra gave away 100 buffaloes and 10,000 cows to a poet. These facts would support the antipathy between the Tritsus and the Chaidyas, (who were the ancestors of the Kalachuris or Haihayas) and their mutually antagonistio temperaments. It is therefore possible that Tritasaurya refers to the descendants of Tritsus, the hereiditary enemies of the Kalaahuris. Phonetically the words appear similar, but it is doubtful whether the connection van be established grammatioally. This is a problem for Sanskritists to solve.
