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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA NOTE ON EIGHT INSCRIPTIONS OF KADAVA CHIEFS side of king Bhīmadēva of the well-known Shāhi dynasty of Gāndhāra. By virtue of her ancestry she had inherited the valour, statesmanship and other characteristics of the two houses.During the lifetime of her weak and effeminate husband, Kshēmagupta, she was the virtual head of the State and wielded sovereign powers. On the coins of Kshēmagupta the letter Di is prefixed to the name of the king, meaning Diddā-Kshēma, which became the nickname of the kin, casting reflections on his political impotency as against his all-powerful queen who acted for him and ruled like the real king. No wonder then, if on account of her valour, political astuteness and masculine traits, she was styled by people as king Diddā in the lifetime of her husband[1] and during the period when she acted as regent first for her son Abhimanyu and, after his death, for her grandsons.[2] Probably this appellation became favourite with her and she preferred to be styled by it when she became the de facto independent monarch and ruled the State in her name for 23 years (A.D. 980-1003).[3] Dharmāṅka, the donor of the record, does not seem to be a prominent personality of the time, as he is nowhere mentioned in the Rājataraṅgiṇī. The chronicle, however, mentions one Dharmārka, who was an official under Tuṅga, the well-known Prime Minister of the queen and her successor Saṅgrāmarāja.
I acknowledge with grateful thanks the emendations kindly made in the article and the text by Rao Bahadur C.R. Krishnamacharlu and Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra. Without their guidance, it would not have been possible for me to bring out the article in its present form. TEXT4 [Metres :─ V. 1 Mālinī ;, vv. 2 and 3, Śārdūlavikrīḍita.]
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