Sambodhi 2010 Vol 33

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

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Vol. XXXIII, 2010
Four Minor Royal Dynasties
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Again the Bennūra copper-plate of Krsna Varma II (545-70) mentions the village Palmidi (s.a. Halmidi in Hassan Dt.) as situated in the Sendraka-Visaya.
We can deduce, based on the extant epigraphical material, that the NorthWest region of Shimoga' Dt., was the nucleus of Sendrakas and the kernal area was gradually widened in the sixth century. During the reign of Polekesi I, a Sendra chief called Svāmiyara alias Sāmiyara, son of Sivāra (Sīvara) and grandson of Gondarāja, was governing the Kuhundi-3000 province bordering Mirinje division, the modern Miraj. [Bhojarāja B. Patil : Nāgararakhanda-70 : 1995 : 37-40).
The Gokāk-Plates of Dejja-mahārāja (E1. Vol. XXI. No. 43), the Rāstrakūta king (533-33), described as the Āguptāyika chief of Vardhamana Mahāvīra lineage, refers to Adhirāja Indrananda, son of Vijayānanda Madhyamarāja of Sendraka, a subordinate of the Rāstrakūtas, as ruling from Jambukhandi (Jamakhandi in Bijapur Dt.) Adhirāja, Vijayānanda and Indrananda, favourite of the Rāstrakūta king Dejja, belonged to the Andhra branch, an offshoot of the Early Sendrakas. Adhirāja Indrānanda granted 50 nivartanas of land in the Jalaragrāma village situated in the Kashmāndi-Visaya, to the Jaina pontiff Aryanandin of the Jambukhandagana (mọd. Jamakhandi in Bāgalkote Dt.) for the workshop of Arhat, in the year 532-33 CE.
Ravisakti, son of Kannsasakti of Phanikula (Nāgakula), Lord of Sendrakas, figures as the donor in the Hüli plates of Mangaleśa (596-609), the Calukya sovereign. Ravisakti, at the behest of his overlord Mangaleśa, (tasyānusāsanena) made a grant of 50 Nivartanás of cultivable land to the caitya of Lord śāntinātha, the 16th Tirthankara, in the village of Kiruvattekeķe, the modern Kiratgeri (Gadag Dt. TK), which was under his feudal authority. Preceptor Abhayanandi, a pupil of Srīnandi of Paralūru samgha, was the donee.
The Ciplun plates (E1. Vol. III. p. 30) of Polekesin II (609-42), mentions that Sendraka Srīvallabha Sēnānandarāja was the maternal uncle of Polekesi. The Sendrakas had matrimonial alliances with the Calukyas and king Kirtivarman I (566-96), Polekesin's father, had married a Sendraka princess. Bhimasakti Sendraka figures in the seventh century charters, as a feudatory in service of Polekesi II. Vānasakti and Kundaśakti were Governors of Mulgunda, an ancient Jaina tirtha in the 6th and 7th century.
Durgaśakti, son of Kundasakti and grandson of Vijayasakti are mentioned in a lithic record from Puligere (Lakshmeśvara), another venerable hoary seat of