Yasastilaka and Indian Culture

Author(s): Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur

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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
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The Vemulavāda Cālukyas and Somadevasūri. Recent studies have conclusively shown that the Cālukya family during whose rule Somadeva lived and worked held the territory corresponding to Karimnagar district of former Hyderabad State, now included in Andhra. These chiefs were feudatories of the Rāştrakūtas; and Yuddhamalla I, the founder of the family, has been assigned to about the middle of the eighth century. We are concerned here with the last three rulers Arikesarin II, Vadyaga or Baddega and Arikesarin III.2
Arikesarin II ruled in the second quarter of the tenth century, and was the patron of Pampa who wrote his famous poems Adipurāna and Vikramārjunavijaya in Kannada in 941 A. D.3 According to the Parbhani plates, Arikesarin II was succeeded by his son Bhadradeva (II), also called Vadyaga, the father of Arikesarin III. Somadeva tells us in the colophon to his Yaśastilaka that he wrote the work in 959 A. D. during the reign of a prince who was the eldest son of Arikesarin (II), and who, as we have pointed out on p. 4, is variously called Vagarāja, Vadyaraja, and Vadyagaraja in the manuscripts. The name Vadyaga is considered to be a variant of Baddiga, which occurs as the name of an earlier chief in the genealogy given in the Parbhani plates, and appears also as Baddega in the Vemulavāda pillar inscription of Arikesarin II.
Baddega is said to have built a Jina temple for his teacher Somade vasūri in an inscription on the pedestal of an image of Pārsvanātha found at Vemulavāda in
1. See VENKATARAMANAYYA : The Chalukyas of L(V) emulavāda, Hyderabad, 1953;
and specially N. LAKSHMINARAYAN Rao's paper The Family of Arikesarin,
Patron of Pampa in the Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. XLV. 2. There is a confusion in the genealogy given on p. 4 of this book. The last two
names should be omitted. 3. RICE : A History of Kanarese Literature, p. 30. 4. Baddega is called Baddega III by Rao op. cit., obviously because among the earlier
chiefs there was another Baddega and another Bhadradeva ( same as Baddega, being a Sanskrit variant of the name ). But the first Bhadradeva is not mentioned in the Vemulavada Pillar inscription, and if he did not actually rule, as seems probable, our Baddega might be called Baddega II.