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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA settled there.[1] A heavenly voice asked Vijaya to adopt āditya instead of rāja as the component part of his successors’ names. The purport of the verse seems to be that Vijaya began to call himself as belonging to the Sūryavaṁśa as against the Ikshvāku- or Raghuvaṁśa. The language of the last three lines is Mewārī. These give the dates Saṁ. 1718, 7th day of the dark fortnight of Māgha and Saṁ 1732, 15th day of the bright fortnight of Māgha, as those of the commencement and the consecration respectively of the Rājasamudra by Rāṇā Rājasiṁha. Slab IV ; Canto III The third canto, inscribed on the fourth slab, opens with an invocation to Kṛishṇa and then continues the genealogical list from Vijaya onwards, which runs as follows : Vijaya-Padmāditya-Śivāditya – Dhārāditya (?) – Sujasāditya – Sumukhāditya – Sōmāditya – Śīlāditya – Kēśavāsitya - Nāgāditya – Bhōgāditya – Dēvāditya – Āśāditya – Kālabhōjāditya –Grahāditya ; thus fourteen ādityas. The sons of Grahāditya were all known as Guhilautas (Skt. Guhila-putra). The eldest of them was Vāshpa.[2] Vāshpa was, as described above, an incarnation of Nandin. He became a disciple of the sage Hārītarāśi, likewise an incarnation of Chaṇḍa, a gaṇa of Śiva. While residing at Nāgahradapura,[3] Vāshpa worshipped the god Ēkaliṅga, i.e., Śiva, who favoured him with boons, saying : ‘ Be thou the lord of Chitrakūṭa (Chitor). Let Chitrakūṭa be always under the sway of your descendants.’ Thus, Vāshpa, at the age of fifteen received fortune through the favour of the god Ēkaliṅga and the sage Hārīta, on the 7th day of the bright fortnight of Māgha after 191 (or 791[4] ?) years had elapsed The verses 13-17 describe Vāshpa’s valour and appearance : he used to wear a gold bracelet weighing 50 palas, which was given to him by his preceptor Hārīta who, in turn, had received it from Śiva (Ēkaliṅga)[5]. In verse 18, we are told that Vāshpa conquered the Mōrī king Manurāja,[6] captured Chitrakūṭa and ruled there. The next verse says that he assumed the title of Rāvala.
From the following verse we learn that Vāshpa’s son was Rāvala Khamāna, from whom was born Gōvinda. Then was Mahēndra ; his son was Ālū, his son was Siṁhavarman, his son Śaktikumāra, his son Rāvala Śālivāhana, his son Naravāhana. Next Ambāprasāda, Kīrtivarman, Naravarman, Narapati, Uttama, Bhairava, Puñjarāja, Karṇāditya, Bhāvasiṁha, Gōtrasiṁha, Haṁsarāja, Śubhayōgarāja, Vairaḍa,[7] Varisiṁha, Rāvala Tējasiṁha, Samarasiṁha. This last was the husband of Pṛithā, sister of the king Pṛithvīrāja. Out of regard for this relation he assisted the Chauhāna king of Delhi (Pṛithvīrāja) in his battle against the Gōrī Sahibadīna (Mu’izzuddīn Muḥammad, also known as Shihāb-ud-dīn) of Gajjanī (Gazni). We are told ______________________________________________________________ [1] According to the Jagannātharāya temple inscription it was Pramāditya, son of Vijaya, who went to the
south (above, Vol. XXIV, p. 65, v. 6). Cf. with this the story found in Pāli, of Vijaya, son of Sīhabāhu, ruler of
Lāḷa (Rāḍha) who colonized Ceylon for the first time.
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