South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

dated, without full details, in the Vijaya saṁvatsara coupled with Śaka-Saṁvat 855 (expired), = A.D. 933-34.

Gôvinda IV. was succeeded by a paternal uncle, whose proper name is known, as yet, only in the Prâkṛit forms of Baddegadêva and Vaddigadêva.^[1] The Dêôlî grant of A.D. 940 introduces him, in verse, by only the biruda of Amôghavarsha ;^[2] so, also, does the Karhâḍ grant of A.D. 959, using the same verse ;^[3] and so, in other verse, do the Sâlôṭgi inscription of A.D. 945^[4] and the Kardâ grant of A.D. 972 :^[5] the Âtakûr inscription of A.D. 949-50 mentions him, in prose, only as Amôghavarshadêva.^[6] His proper name is met with first, as Baddegadêva, in the Western Gaṅga inscription of A.D. 975 at Hebbâḷ ;^[7] the Bhâdâna Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 997 gives it as Vaddigadêva :^[8] and the Khârêpâṭaṇ Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 1008 speaks of him as Vaddiganṛipa, “ king Vaddiga.”^[9] We have, as yet, no records that can be referred with certainty to the time of Amôghavarsha-Vaddiga. But, that he did reign, is shewn by the formal preambles of the prose passages of the Dêôlî and Karhâḍ grants, which describe Akâlavarshadêva-(Kṛishṇa III.) as meditating on the feet of the Paramabhaṭṭâraka, Mahârâjâdhirâja, and Paramêśvara Amôghavarshadêva ;^[10] and so also, by the Âtakûr inscription of A.D. 949-50, which, in a less stereotyped fashion, describes Kṛishṇa III. as a bee on the water-lilies that were the feet of the favourite of fortune and of the earth, the Paramêśvara and Paramabhaṭṭâraka Amôghavarshadêva.^[11]

Amôghavarsha-Vaddiga was succeeded by his son Kṛishṇa III. His earliest record, the Dêôlî grant of A.D. 940, introduces him as Kṛishṇarâjadêva, and then, in another verse, gives him the biruda of Śrîvallabha ;^[12] and, in the formal preamble of the prose passages, it styles him Akâlavarshadêva, Pṛithivîvallabha, and Vallabhanarêndradêva, “ his majesty, it king Vallabha.”^[13] The Sâlôṭgi inscription of his time, dated in A.D. 945, does not add anything ; as it only mentions him as Pṛithvîvallabha, Akâlavarshadêva, and Kṛishṇarâja.^[14] The Âtakûr inscription of A.D. 949-50 presents his name in the Prâkṛit form of Kannaradêva,^[15] and adds the birudas of Aṅkatriṇêtra, “ a very Triṇêtra (Śiva) in battle,” Âneveḍeṅga, “ a marvel with elephants,” Vanagajamalla, “ a wrestler against forest-elephants,” and Kachchega,

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^[1] Kittel’s Kannaḍa-English Dictionary gives baddiga as another form of bandiga, and the latter as a tadbhava-corruption of the Sanskṛit bandhika or bandhaka ; but this does not seem to help us towards the Sanskṛit name. The St. Petersburg Dictionary gives Vandîka, also written Bandîka, as a name of Indra ; but it is hardly likely that Jagattuṅga II. would name two sons after that god. We shall probably find the Sanskṛit form of the name, sooner or later, among the Kalachuris of Central India, into whose family Jagattuṅga II., as well as his father Kṛishṇa II., intermarried. Meanwhile, we can only remark that the Karhâḍ grant of A.D. 959 goes on, after the verse in which it introduces him (see note 3 below), to liken him, in a verse of its own which does not stand in the Dêôlî grant, to Manu, Kârtavîrya, Bali, and Dilîpa, and says that, though by possessing the qualities which they possessed he acquired pre-eminent and permanent fame, still “ his behavior towards elderly persons was humble through modesty,”─ vṛiddhêshu namra-charitô vinayêna yô=bhût. It is just possible that there is a hint here that his proper name was something beginning with Vṛiddha, of which Vaddiga would be a perfectly admissible Prâkṛit form, on the analoyg of baddi, vaddi, as tadbhava-forms of vṛiddhi.
^[2] Above, Vol. V. p. 194, verse 19.
^[3] Above, Vol. IV. p. 288, verse 21 ; as regards verse 22, see note 1 above.
^[4] Ibid. p. 62.
^[5] Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 265, text lines 21, 24-25.
^[6] Page 55 above.
^[7] Above, Vol. IV. p. 352, text line 5.
^[8] Above, Vol. III. p. 271, text line 12. It is this record which, in the preceding verse, distinctly specifies him as the younger brother of Nityavarsha-(Indra III.).
^[9] Ibid. p. 298, text line 12.
^[10] Above, Vol. V. p. 195, text lines 43 to 45 ; and Vol. IV. p. 285, text lines 54, 55.
^[11] Page 55 above.
^[12] Above, Vol. V. p. 194, text lines 31, 34.
^[13] Loc. cit. p. 195, text line 45-46. The last appellation seems to be preceded, as it is in his Karhâḍ grant of A.D. 959, by the honorific śrîmat,─ not śrî.
^[14] Above, Vol. IV. p. 60, text lines 9-10, 18.
^[15] Page 54 f. above, text lines 4, 20, 21.