Jinamanjari 1995 09 No 12

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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kaymige chakravariti Jayasimgam me - cchi kottammakasamamta pratipattiyam jagadolarin=naggalam Gaggalam*
3. Ramachandrapur Inscription of Trailokyamalladeva (1064 A.D.)
The subjoined inscription is from Ramachandrapur village, Narasapur taluk of Medak district. The inscription is in Kannada script and runs over seventy lines. It registers the gift of cash and sarvvaya as Devabhoga and Ponne gadyapas for the maintenance of a basadi named nNdukulige ya-basadi by the king Trailokyamalladeva after washing the feet of Chandra Siddhantadeva, sishya of Bhima Chandrabhattaraka of Yapani-sangha and Vaviyyurggana. He had camped at Bengi Nadu at Singavikrama, the temporary capital, situated in between the area of the two perennial rivers, Godavari and Krishna. Singa Vikrama is the name of the two kings Jayasimha and Vikramaditya, the two western Chalukyan kings. There is a basadi in Bezwada in the Vengi country called the Nadumbi basadi, originally established by Ayyana Mahadevi,' queen of Kubja Vishnuvardhana. We do not know which is the reference to the present basadi. It records the gift of the land in grama and cash to the Nadikuligeya basadi which is identified with Nadikudi of the same Maha Nadikudi-Bilinagar line.
The date of the record is satisfactory and the Saka 986 Krodhi samvatsara, Ashadha su. 9, Brihaspativara corresponds to Thursday, 24th June 1064 AD.
Apart from its religious significance, the record is important for political reasons since the Western chalukya presence is found in the heart of Vengi Nadu.
The Western Chalukya Someswara I has been referred by his title Trailokyamalladeva. It a troublesome period because Vengi and the Eastern Chalukya Chola relations had stand strained.
Inscriptions dated 1063 AD mention that Vikramaditya in 2nd regnal year of 1063 A.D. attacked Western Calukya at Vengi. This clearly points an attack on Vengi probably at the close of 1062 A.D.
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