South Indian Inscriptions

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Altekar, A. S
Bhattasali, N. K
Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari
Chakravarti, S. N
Chhabra, B. CH
Das Gupta
Desai, P. B
Gai, G. S
Garde, M. B
Ghoshal, R. K
Gupte, Y. R
Kedar Nath Sastri
Khare, G. H
Krishnamacharlu, C. R
Konow, Sten
Lakshminarayan Rao, N
Majumdar, R. C
Master, Alfred
Mirashi, V. V
Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R
Narasimhaswami, H. K
Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M
Panchamukhi, R. S
Pandeya, L. P
Raghavan, V
Ramadas, G
Sircar, Dines Chandra
Somasekhara Sarma
Subrahmanya Aiyar
Vats, Madho Sarup
Venkataramayya, M
Venkatasubba Ayyar
Vaidyanathan, K. S
Vogel, J. Ph
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

and Hēmachandra calls it Chēdi-nagarī ‘ the capitlal of the Chēdi country’. The surrounding country called Traipura is mentioned in the Mahābhārata^[1]and the Matsyapurāṇa.^[2] The Tripurī vishaya (the district of Tripurī) is mentioned in the Betul plates of Saṅkshōbha as situated in the Ḍabhālā (i.e., Ḍāhala) country, which was under the rule of the Parivrājaka kings down to A. D. 528 at least. It is, however, not known who was ruling the country when Vāmarāja invaded it and annexed it to his kingdom.

Two or three generations seem to have separated Vāmarāja from Śaṅkaragaṇa. We do not know the names of the princes who ruled in the meanwhile. Perhaps Māyurāja, the author of the Sanskrit play Udāttarāghava was one of them. He is described by Rājaśēkhara as the best Kalachuri poet.^[3] Another Sanskrit poet Bhīmaṭa whom Rājaśēkara mentions as the lord of Kālañjara perhaps belonged to the same royal family. Rājaśēkhara tells us that he composed five plays of which Svapnadaśānana was judged to be the best.^[4]

Śaṅkaragaṇa during whose reign the present inscription was put up belonged to the main Tripurī branch of the great Kalachuri dynasty. He must therefore be distinguished from the homonymous princes mentioned in the Kasiā stone inscription and the Kahlā plates, who were ruling over the Gorakhpur District. This Śaṅkaragaṇa is, again, the earliest prince of this name in the Tripurī branch and may therefore be called Śaṅkaragaṇa I. Two other princes of the same name ruled at Tripurī, viz., (i) Śaṅkaragaṇa II who bore the birudas Mugdhatuṅga, Prasiddhadhavala and Raṇavigraha^[5] and was the son and successor of Kōkalla I, and (ii) Śaṅkaragaṇa III6 who was the son and successor of Lakshmaṇarāja II and the elder brother of Yuvarājadēva II. The former may be referred to the period circa A. D. 890─910 and the latter to circa A. D. 970─980.

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^[1] Sabhāparvan (Chitraśālā Press), adhyāya, XXXI, v. 60.
^[2]Matsyapurāṇa, adhyāya 114, v. 53.
^[3]Sūktimuktāvali (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series), p. 46 ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XLI, pp. 139 ff.
^[4]Sūktimuktāvali, p. 46.
^[5] He is called Śaṅkaragaṇa and Raṇavigraha in some Rāshṭrakūṭa records. His birudas Mugdhatuṅga and Prasiddhadhavala are mentioned in the Bilhāri stone inscription and the Benares plates respectively.
^[6]He is mentioned in the Kārītalāī stone inscription of Lakshmaṇarāja II as well as in the Benares plates. See also above, Vol. XXV, p. 280.
^[7] From the original stone and inked estampages. I am obliged to Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra and Mr. N. L. Rao for the readings of a few words in this transcript.
^[8] Expressed by a symbol.
^[9] The loop on the left of this akshara has now become somewhat indistinct, but it is there.
^[10] This daṇḍa is superfluous.
^[11] The context requires a reading like ch=aitan=mātā-pitṛi …
^[12]One would expect a reading like puṇy-ārthaṁ here.
^[13] This visarga is superfluous. Notice that a similar visarga occurs at the end of the Chhoti Deori record, below, p. 172.
^[14] I am not certain about these eight aksharas at the end of the present record.

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