Indian Antiquary Vol 55

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
APRIL, 1926
968 KAlima Ayya or Kalidasa, & ruling feudatory of the Chalukya king Trailokyamalla Somośvara I), made religious donations to certain gods through the disciples of Pandits Maulimaduvu and Tejor&shi. The excellence of the composition proves that Någavarma must have been a pre-eminent master of poetry. Kalidasa's achievements in particular are admirably described.
KAlima or KAlidasa is eulogised in two other inscriptions--one belonging to the period of Trailokyamalla, which faces a sixty-pillared temple in Någai, Nizam's Dominions, and the other belonging to the period of Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya, which is on the wall of a ruined temple opposite the temple of Siva. In the latter the epithets Sahityavidydvitarkkam and Vaksatikarndvatam sam are applied to the ruler Kalima: in the former, which describes the family, deeds of prowess, and other particulars of the general Kalidasa, the same two epithets are applied to him.
5. Indrakirti. circa A.D. 1055. Near a shed in front of the Jain temple of Kogali in Bellary District is an inscription dated Saka 977 of the reign of Trailokyamalla, which records that the temple was constructed in former days by a Garga ruler named Durvinita, and that at the date of the inscription gifts were made to the temple by a Jain acharya named Indrakirti.
Indrakirti is described in the inscription in the following phrases :--Sri-madaruhachcharanasarasimha bhringa; kondakundánvayasamuha-mukhamandanaDisiyagana kumudavanasarachchandra; Kokalipurendra; Trailokyamalla-sadasarasi-kalahansa. Moreover, the epithets applied to him in the inscription, e.g., Kavi-janacharya, Panditamukhamburuha-chandamdr. tanda, Sarvasástrajña, Kavikumudarája, etc., indicate that he must have been an excellent poet- supposition which is fully corroborated by the fine diction of the inscription. In one place he is also called Trailokyamallendra-kirti-Harimurti. No information is available as to the books which he wrote.
6. Råvapayya. eirea A.D. 1059. All that is known about Råvapayya is that he was Kulkarni of Sundi, modern Sadi in Ron taluka, Dharwar District, and that he composed the inscription dated Saka 981, of the time of Someśvara I (Trailokyamalla), which appears on a stone to the right of a temple with two domes in that village. During the rule of the Chalukyas of Kalyan, Sundi was the capital of the Kisukade seventy. The inscription contains a stanza relating to Someávara's prime minister and dandanayaka, Någadeva. The poetry of the inscription is very fine, and the style of writing admirable : the inscription is in fact a poem. We know nothing more about the author, however, save the fact that in another inscription he is described as Bhaskaradása and Ishvarapadabjabhramara.
7. Narayana Bhatta. cirea A.D. 1053. The Madras Museum possesses a copper-plate received from the Collector of GodA. Vari District, which states that the Eastern Chalukys ruler Rajaraja Narendra in his thirty-second regnal year bestowed Nandampondi village upon a Brahman named Nardyana Bhatte. The grant, which is in verse, declares that Narayana Bhatta belonged to the Hårita gotra, and followed the Apastamba sutra ; his paternal great-grandfather was Kaichena. somayaji, his grandfather Kanchenarya, his father Akala kasankanâmâtya, and his mother Samekamba. He was well versed in Sanskrit, Kanarėse, Prakrit, Paisacha, and Telugu, and bore various titles, such as Kavirajasekhara,' Kavibhavajránkusa,' Ashtadaśavadharana. chakravarti' and 'Sarasvatikarnavatarsa.'
The poet-author of the grant is one Nanniya Bhatta, and Dr. Holtzsch has suggested that he is identical with Nannaya Bhattaraka who wrote the Andhrabharata and other works.