Sambodhi 2010 Vol 33

Author(s): J B Shah, K M patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Hampana Nagarjaiah
SAMBODHI
Rāstrakūtas [E1. Vol. XXI. No. 43, CE 532-33, pp 289-92.). Vanasatti and his son Kundasatti were Lords of Mulgunda and the nearby Siraguppa, respectively.
The Sendrakas were loyal to the Calukyas. Durgaśakti, son of Kundaśakti, and Sēnānanda served king Polekesi II. Infact Senānanda was maternal uncle of Polekesin II. Similarly Devasakti and Sendra-maharāja Pogilli were subordinates of Vikramāditya I and Viniyāditya, respectively. Much the same, Jayasakti, son of Nikumbhallasakti, grandson of Adityasakti, and great grandson of Bhānusakti served obediently their overlord Vikramāditya II, where as Sendraka Nāgasakti and Mādhavasatti were officers of a lower cadre under Kirtivarma II. The Kalvan plates of Jayasakti, and the Bagumrā grant of Nikumballa-sakti provide useful information. Contemplating on the diaspora and demography of the Sendrakas, it i noted that a branch of the Early Sendrakas was established in Gujarāt and Khandesh, in the seventh century, in the North-West, and in Kurnool area of Āndhradeśa. The Sendrákas originated from Nāgarakhanda-70 region in Banavāsi12,000 province. Earlier the Nāgarakhanda principality had Sendrakarājya as its second name. The Sendrakavisaya comprised parts of Shimoga, Chikkamagalūr, Hāveri and Hässan Districts. According to Ciplun inscription, the Sendrakas were also chiefs of the Avaretika-visaya (Aparanta), i.e. the modern region of northern and southern Konkan, which included Thāna, Kolābā and Ratnāgiri districts. Senānanda had donated village and land in this Avaretika-Visaya. The Sakrepatna plates indicate that the Sendrakarājya, in the southern Karnātaka tract, formed part of the Pallava kingdom in the reign of Simhavarma I (436-60).
The Sendrakas figure in the famous Halmidi inscription along with the Bānas. This statement confirms epigraph of Simhavarman I (436-60), the Pallava king and in the Halmidi inscription, both assigned to the fifth century. Subsequently, Sendrakarājya figure in Sakkarepattana inscription which records the king's gifts to Valvilli Agrahāra (Shimoga Dt.) situated in the Sayindaka-visaya.
The Mūdigere copper plates of Visnuvarma (469) and Simhavarma (495), the Kadamba kings, state that the former and the latter granted six Nivartana land to the north of the Āsandilür village in the Sendrakavisaya, and another five Nivartana land to the south of the tank of the same village (Āsandilūr), respectively, to the Arhantāyatana, the local Jaina temple. The village Āsandilür has been identified with the modern Asandihalli near Müdigere in Chikkamagalur Dt. Again in CE 524 king Ravivarma granted land for the worship of Siddhāyatana, 'temple dedicated to Siddhas', at Āsandyalür (Dāvanagere Plates).