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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA The details of the date on which the grant was made are :─ Śaka-varsha 630 (specifically mentioned as expired), eleventh regnal year, Āshāḍha, paurṇamāsī. The date is not verifiable, since the week-day is not given. Fleet has shown, on the strength of the Aihoḷe inscription,[1] that the month Śrāvaṇa of Śaka year 619 current (A.D. 696) was the first month of the first year of this king.[2] Accordingly Āshāḍha of Śaka 630 current would fall in the eleventh regnal year and not of the expired Śaka year as mentioned in the record. The date mentioned in the record would fall on Monday 20th June, A.D. 707.[3] The inscription under study is interesting in more than one respect. The grant was issued when the royal camp was at the place called Kisuvolal. This place has been identified with modern Paṭṭadkal in Hungund Taluk, Bijapur District. It occurs as Kesuvoḷal in the Mahākūṭa inscription of Maṅgalēśa[4] and as Paṭṭadakisuvoḷal in later records.[5] Paṭṭadkal, together with Bādāmi and Aihoḷe, formed the metropolis of the early Chālukyas of Bādāmi and it was specially at Paṭṭadkal that the festival of paṭṭa-bandha (fillet-binding, i.e. coronation) was being celebrated. It may be pointed out that Kisuvolal is called a sthāna in our inscription whereas Vātāpi, i.e. Bādāmi is styled as adhishṭhāna in some of the early records.[6] Some of the other grants of Vijayāditya have been issued from Rāsēnagara,[7]Karahāṭanagara,[8] Ēlāpura,[9] Kuhuṇḍinagara,[10] and Raktapura.[11] The last name Raktapura also occurs as the place of royal camp in the Kendur plates of Kīrtivarman II, the grandson of Vijayaditya.[12] While editing the Kendur plates, Prof. K. B. Pathak suggested the identification of Raktapura with modern Lakshmēśvar in the Shirahatti Taluk of the Dharwar District. Fleet also was inclined to hold the same view.[13] This view is, however, not correct. We know that the ancient name of Lakshmēśvar was Puligere, Purigere, Pulikara or Purikara. In the inscription under study itself the forms Purigere, Pulikara and Purikara occur. We have to identify Raktapura with Kisuvalal from where the grant under consideration was issued. In fact Kisuº or Kesu-volal in Kannaḍa means ‘ red city ’ (kisu ‘ red ’, volal polal ‘ city ’) and it is quite clear that Raktapura is only a Sanskrit rendering of the Kannaḍa name.
In line 32 of the inscription under study it is stated that Vijayāditya had gone to Vanavāsi in order to see the Ālupa king and lines 32-36 inform us that the name of this Ālupa ruler was Chitravāhana and that he belonged to the Pāṇḍya lineage. The early history of the Ālupa rulers is still shrounded in obsecurity.[14] We know from the Sorab plates[15] of the Chālukya king _____________________________________________________
[1] Ind. Ant., Vol. VIII, p. 284.
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