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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
in A.D. 972, is the first record to present his name as Khoṭṭigadêva, with the aspirated kh.[1]
This form is presented again in the Bhâdâna Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 997.[2] But the Khârêpâṭaṇ
Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 1008 gives Khôṭika.[3]
Khoṭṭiga was succeeded by a nephew, who is most conveniently known as Kakka II. His
Kardâ grant of A.D. 972 seems to present his proper name first, in verse, as Kakkarâja ;[4] but
it is possible that we ought to find there a superscript r, imperfectly formed or damaged, and
that we ought to take the name to be Karkarâja, which seems more likely to be the Sanskṛit
form of it : further on, in prose, it presents it as Kakkaladêvarâja,[5] which, from the practice
noted further on regarding the ending dêva, we must take to be its Prâkṛit form. The form
Kakkaladêva was used in the Guṇḍûr inscription of his time, dated in A.D. 973.[6] The
Bhâdâna Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 997 calls him Kakkalêśa, “ the lord Kakkala.”[7] And the
Khârêpâṭaṇ Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 1008 calls him simply Kakkala, without any ending.[8] Among other later extraneous records, the Kauṭhêṁ Western Châlukya grant of A.D. 1009 gives his name as Karkara ;[9] and the Kaḷachurya inscription of A.D. 1161 at Managôḷi presents it as
Kakkara.[10] His Kardâ grant of A.D. 972 gives him, in some lines in prose, containing epithets
with rhyming endings, which stand just before the usual preamble of the prose passages, the birudas of Amôghavarsha, Nûtanapârtha, Ahitamârtaṇḍa, Vîranârâyana, Nṛipatuṅga, and
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[1] Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 265, text line 25.
[2] Above, Vol. III. 272, text line 16-17.
[3] Ibid. p. 298, text line 16.
[4] Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 265, text line 26.─ There is not, apparently, any such word as kakka. And the
name seems to be certainly karka, ‘ white, good, excellent ; a white horse ; a crab ; the sign Cancer ;’ etc.─ The name
Kakkarâja II. of the first Gujarât branch, and of his ancestor Kakkarâja I, in the grant of A.D. 757 from the
Surat district ; and there, in all three passages, the first component of the name is distinctly written Kakka, without the r (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 107, text line 3, and p. 108, lines 15, 23). We meet with it
next in the case of Karka or Kakka I., father of Kṛishṇa I. of the main line : the Sâmângaḍ grant of A.D. 754 gives
his name as Kakkarâja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 111, text line 9) ; the Paiṭhaṇ great of A.D. 794, however, gives it
as Karkarâja in using the same verse, and again in a subsequent verse (above, Vol. III. p. 106, text lines 7, 17) ; the
Baroda grant of A.D. 811 or 812, using a new verse, gives it again as Kakarâja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 159, text
line 5) ; the Ellôrâ inscription at the Daśâvatâra cave, using again a new verse, apparently gives it in the same
form, Karkarâja (Archӕol. Surv. West. Ind. Vol. V. p. 88, text line 8) ; so, also, apparently do the Nausârî grant
of A.D. 817 (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XX. pp. 142, 143, verses 5, 11) and the Kâvî grant of A.D. 826 or
827 (Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 146, verses 5, 11), both using the two verses of the Paiṭhaṇ grant, though the Baroda grant
of A.D. 866 or 867 ; using again the same two verses, seems to give it as Kakkarâja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 182,
text lines 5, 11) ; the Bagumrâ grant, of doubtful authenticity, purporting to have been issued in A.D. 888,
uses again the two verses of the Paiṭhaṇ grant, and gives it as Karkarâja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 66 f.. text lines
5, 10) ; and, finally, the Bhâdâna Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 997 gives it as Karkarâja, in a new verse of its own
(above, Vol. III. p. 271, text line 3). And we meet with the same name again in the case of the feudatory
prince Suvarṇavarsha-Karkarâja of the second Gujarât branch : the Baroda grant of A.D. 811 or 812 gives his
name as Karkarâja in the verse which introduces him and in the usual preamble of the prose passages (Ind. Ant.
Vol. XII. p. 160, text lines 36, 42), but seems rather to give it as Kakkarâja in the passage that purports to be
his signature (ibid. p. 161, text lines 68) ; the Nausârî grant of A.D. 817 apparently gives it as Karkarâja in the
verse, a new one, which introduces him, and also in the preamble of the prose passages (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc.
Vol. XX. p. 139, text lines 52, 55 ; in respect of the signature, the translation shews Karkarâja, p. 148, but the text
has Kakkarâja, p. 141, text line 80) ; the Kâvî grant of A.D. 826 or 827 apparently gives Karkarâja, in a new verse
(Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 147, verse 31) ; the Baroda grant of A.D. 834 or 835 does the same (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV.
p. 199, text line 14), in reproducing the verse of the Nausârî grant of A.D. 817 ; the Bagumrâ grant of A.D. 866 or
867, using both the verse of A.D. 826 or 827 and then the verse of A.D. 817, apparently gives it, in both
places, as Kakkarâja (Ind. And. Vol. XII. p. 183, text line 6) ; and the Bagumrâ grant, of doubtful authenticity,
purporting to have been issued in A.D. 888, using the verse of A.D. 817, gives it as Karkarâja (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII.
p. 67, plate ii. a., text line 9).
[5] Loc. cit. p. 266, text line 47.
[6] Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 271, text line 5.
[7] Above. Vol. III. p. 272, text line 18.
[8] Ibid. p. 298, text line 17.
[9] Ind. Ant. Vol. XVI. p. 23, text line 41.
[10] Above, Vol. V. p. 16, text line 12.
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