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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA area after the decline of Rāshṭrakūṭa power about 973 A.D.[1] It now appears from the present inscription that, with the appointment of a governor over Saṁyāna-maṇḍala, comprising wide areas of the Northern Konkan, during the reign of Kṛishṇa II, the Śilāhāras became rulers of only parts of the territory over which they had been ruling as feudatories of Amōghavarsha I. Among the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, the reference to Pañcha-Gauḍa is very interesting. The name Gauḍa has been used here to indicate North India mentioned elsewhere in the record as Āryadēśa, i.e. Āryāvarta. The name is known to be used variously as that of a city in Eastern India, of the country around the said city, of the countries of Eastern India collectively and of the whole of Āryāvarta or Northern India.[2] It is well known that the name Saṁyāna, applied to both a city and a maṇḍala or territorial division, is preserved in that of modern Sanjan in the Thana District of Bombay. Whether the district called Kōlimahāra-vishaya owed name to the Koli tribe of the Northern Konkan[3] or of the port of Kolai about 15 miles to the north of Sanjan[4] cannot be determined. I am also not sure about the location of the villages called Kāṇāḍuka and Dēvīhara. The names of certain localities are mentioned in the inscription in the enumeration of the boundaries of Kāṇāḍuka, one of them being Kallagrāma.
TEX T[5] [Meters : verse 1 Drutavilambita ; verses 2-7, 12, 17-18, 21, 24-25, 28-32 Anushṭubh ; verse 8 Upajāti ; verses 9-11, 27, 33 Indravajrā ; verses 13, 16 Vasantatilakā ; verses 14, 19, 23 Āryā ; verses 15, 35-36 Sragdharā ; verses. 20, 22 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; verse 26 Śālinī ; verse 34 Pushpitāgrā.] First Plate
1 Siddham[6] [||*] Girisutā-Harayōr = avibhinnayōr = vviharatōr = nniyam-ārtham = avantu vaḥ |
sarasa-yāvaka-bhasma-vichitritās=Tri-
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[1] Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, part ii, pp. 538 ff.
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