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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA NOTE ON THE SALEM PLATES OF GANGA SRIPURUSHA. G. S. GAI, OOTACAMUND AFTER my article on this inscription was sent to the press,[1] I noticed the Rāshṭrakūṭa names Śivarāja and his son Gōvindarāja mentioned in the Narwan plates of Chālukya Vikramāditya II,[2] a study of which would throw welcome light on the pedigree of Kañchiyabbā given in the Salem plates of Gaṅga Śrīpurusha. In the Narwan grant which bears the date Śaka 664, i.e., A.D. 742, the king is stated to have made, while his victorious camp was at Ādityavāḍa, a gift of the village Naravaṇa at the request of Gōvindarāja, son of Rāshṭrakūṭa Śivarāja. Ādityavāḍa is identified with modern Aitavaḍe in the Satara District and Naravaṇa with the village of the same name in the Guhāgar Petha of the Ratnagiri District. So the Rāshṭrakūṭa Gōvindarāja seems to have held a feudatory position under Vikramāditya II in portions of Satara and Ratnagiri Districts of the Bombay Presidency. Possibly Gōvindarāja’s father Śivarāja also held the same position in the same area under the same king or his father and predecessor Vijayāditya.
Now the following genealogy is supplied by the Salem plates :─ Nannappa Śivarāja Gōvindarāja md. Vinayavatī, dau. of king Vikramāditya Kañchiyabbā (A.D. 771) md. Duggamāra, son of Indarāja Śrīpurusha. We find that in both the Salem and Narwan records the names of Śivarāja and Gōvindarāja occur in identical forms and bear the same relationship, viz., father and son. The date of Gōvindarāja in the Narwan plates, corresponding to A.D. 742, would place his father Śivarāja in c. A.D. 725. These dates would very well agree with the period of Gōvindarāja and his father Śivarāja of the Salem plates as Gōvindarāja’s daughter Kañchiyabbā was alive in A.D. 771, when the Salem plates were issued. And Śivarāja’s father Nannappa has been assigned to the end of the 7th or the beginning of the 8th century A.D.[3] Further as noted above, the Narwan grant indicates that Gōvindarāja was holding a subordinate position under Vikramāditya II. The Salem plates inform us that Gōvindarāja’s queen Vinayavatī was the daughter of a well-known king Vikramāditya who in all probability is identical with this very Chālukya king Vikramāditya II. A consideration of these facts lead us to identify Śivarāja and his son Gōvindarāja mentioned in the Salem plates with their namesakes of the Rāshṭrakūṭa family referred to in the Narwan plates. Thus we _____________________
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