Indian Antiquary Vol 62

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
JUNE, 1933
apparently to want of local knowledge and ac. of tho shrines, many of them originally cave tem. quaintance with other available literature. To ples, on the famous hill of Chitaldrug. Dr. Krishna's give a few instances, threo of the names of the excavations at the adjoining site of Chandravalli defenders of the Arrah House' (p. 139) have are reserved for a separato monograph. boen incorrectly spelt. No officer named Nan In Part III (Numismaties) Dr. Krishna throwa (p. 140) played any part in the battle of Buxar fresh light on the coinage of the Hoysalas and tho (vide details given in J BORS., Mar. 1926). Bându early râjas of Mysore, and on provincial issues Ghâţ is not one of the paths up the Rohtås hill during the Vijayanagara regime. The familiar (p. 148); Bindu is a village on the bank of the “Vira-Raya fanams," common throughout S. Son river, 2 mi. Ssw. of Daranagar. Buchanan India, he traces to the Hoysala, Vira-Ballala III. Hamilton's (then Buchanan) reference to the Under Part IV (Manuscripts) Dr. Krishna sumfallen bridge at Sher Shah's tomb is dated the marizos, inter alia, & Kanarese poem of about 5th January, 1813 (vide J BORS., 1925, p. 293), not 1570 A.D. commomorating "Kampila Raya,"
1832 (p. 187). The Karna chaurà house in the and his fights, not only with the forces of Muhammad Monghyr fort lies NE. of the large tank, not SE. Tughluq, but also with the Hoysalas and the (p. 208). The words "Damdama Kothi or Bathing Kakatiyas. The account tallies closely with those Ghat" in brackets after the words "the Point" of Firishta and Nuniz of tho fighting round Kampili on p. 209 should have been omitted : the Damdama and Anegundi a few years before the foundation Kothi was not at the Point, which is the name of of Vijayanagara near-by. the projecting corner overlooking the Kastahe. Part V (Epigraphy) is inevitably the bulkiest rani Ghâț. Mir Jumla did not go through the section, for it includes the comploto vernacular "Sherghâti passes” (p. 212) to turn Shah Shuja's text of each inscription, with notes, and in somo position in Monghyr fort.
cases full translations. The year's harvest in. Tho idea of preparing antiquarian maps for cludes 117 inscriptions. These are arrangod topo. Ouch division was an excellent one, but it is a graphically, and a list is appended, tabulatod by pity they were not drawn more accurately. As dynastios, of all inscriptions for which a dynasty they are, they contain numerous errors, not only can be assigned. The gem of tho collection is a in the spelling of place names, but also in the brief record of Mayurasarman, the Brahman positions of sites.
founder of the Kadamba dynasty, onumerating C.E.A.W.O. sight kingdoms over which he was victorious, viz.,
Traikuta, Abhira, Pallava, Pariyâtra, Sakasthana, COMPARATIVE TABLES OF MUHAMMADAN AND
Sondraka, Punâta and Maukhari. No mention CHRISTIAN DATES, compiled by Lt. Col. SIR
is made of Satavahana, Gupta, Ganga or Vaka - WOLSELEY HAIG, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G.,
taka, and on the strength of those omissions Dr. C.B.E. 71 x 5 in. ; 32 pp. London, Luzac & Co.,
Krishna would date this inscription about 258 1932.
A.D., i.o., after the Satavahanas had fallen and These tables, which enable students of Oriental
before the other three empires arobe; a century history to convert dates in the lunar months of the
earlier than the date usually assigned. Whether Hijra era into their corresponding dates in the
this dating is corroct or not, it is certain that
this Christian era, have been printod in a handy little
Mayurasarman's achievement was a bigger thing booklet that will fit in & coat pocket. They will be
than was hitherto suspocted, and not unworthy useful to readers who have not at hand other works of the eighteen horse sacrifices ascribed to him. containing such information, e.g., Wollaston's
Another record of first-rate importance is a grant
Another English-Persian Dictionary, in the Appendix to
by one Avidhêya of a village now in Kolhapur which very similar tables are given.
State. This ruler Dr. Krishna skilfully links up C.E. A. W.O.
with the early Rastrakūtas of "Manpur" in the ARCHÆOLOGICAL SURVEY OF MYSORE, ANNUAL
Central Provinces, and the puzzling Sarabhapur REPORT for 1929, by Dr. M. H. KRISHNA, Pp. vii grants of Chhattisgarh. For the grant ho suggests +317; 20 platos. Govt. Prose, Bangalore, 1931. the dato c. 516 A.D., and cites in support some
This report differs in form and contonta from well known Calukya-Reetrakūta conflicts recorded ita predecessors. Printed on excellent paper, in early Calukya grants. strongly bound and similar in size to this journal, Mysore has been well served by her archæolo. it is in itself a neat and handy volume. The plates giste. Lewis Rico's corpus of nearly 9000 in. are well chosen, and (with three exceptions) each scriptions is a unique foundation; Mossrs. R. bears references to the pages on which the subjects Narasimhachar and R. Shama Sastri, in their illustrated are discussed. The printing is good; annual reports explored with scholarly crafts. the index all that it should be. The subject matter manship the artistic and literary aspects of Kanaroso is arranged under five headings. For Part I (Ad. culture, and in this, his first report, Dr. Krishna ministrative) four pages suffice. Part II (Survey makes it quite clear that the national tradition of Monuments) contains brief descriptions of various is in safe hands. temples, Jain and Hindu, and an exhaustive account
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