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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA of A.D. 739, which speaks of the conferring of the four titles upon the feudatory Chalukya prince Avanijanâśraya-Pulakêśirâja of Gujarât, denotes the paramount sovereign, who conferred them, by the appellation Śrîivallabhanarêndra, “ the king Śrîvallabha,”[1] meaning, no doubt, Vikramâditya II., of the main line of Bâdâmi. It was be added that, in the Bagumrâ grant of A.D. 655 of the Sêndraka prince Pṛithivîvallabha-Nikumbhallaśakti, the name of the Dûtaka, or messenger for the conveyance of the grant, is given as Śrîvallabha-Bappa ;[2] this, again, is perhaps to be accounted for by an explanation similar to that suggested above for the possession of the biruda Pṛithivîvallabha by Nikumbhallaśakti himself. These two special birudas, Pṛithivîvallabha and Śrîvallabha, were thus unquestionably taken over by the Râshṭrakûṭas of Mâlkhêḍ, with the appellations Vallabha and Vallabharâja, from their predecessors, the western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi. How far the amplification of the list of birudas ending in vallabha,─ of which we have also Kalivallabha in the case of Dhruva Janavallabha in the case of Gôvinda III.,and Lakshmîvallabha in the case of Amôghavarsha I.,─ was a Râshṭrakûṭa idea, will probably become more clear hereafter. But a passage in the Nerûr grant of Maṅgalêśa can hardly be construed except as establishing for Pulakêśin I, the biruda of Lôkavallabha,[3] which is of practically the same purport as Janavallabha. And it thus appears not impossible that we may find, on closer scrutiny, that the Western Chalukyas themselves had a more extensive list of vallabha-appellations than now seems to have been the case. The appellations by which the earlier members of the family were remembered in later times. We wind up this study by noting the appellations by which the earlier members of the family were best remembered in later times. For this purpose we have to quote, among the Râshṭrakûṭa records themselves, certain compositions which, as already remarked, depart altogether from the early standard drafts ; namely, the Nausârî grants of A.D. 915,[4] and the Sâṅglî grant of A.D. 933,[5] the Dêôlî grant of A.D. 940,[6]the Karhâḍ grant of A.D. 959,[7] and the Kardâ grant of A.D. 972,[8] and, among extraneous records, the Bhâdâna Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 997[9] and the Khârêpâṭaṇ Śilâhâra grant of A.D. 1008.[10 ]
In the case of the first paramount king, Dantidurga, there is curiously revived in the Bhâdâna grant the variant of his name, Dantivarman, which is presented by the verse at the end of his Sâmângaḍ grant of A.D. 754, and of which there is at present, in his case, no trace in any of the intervening records. In the other seven records, he is mentioned by only the name of Dantidurga or Dantidurgarâja. His paternal uncle and successor Kṛishṇa I. is mentioned, in all the eight records, by only his proper name, as Kṛishṇarâja. Gôvinda II., the elder son of Kṛishṇa I., is not mentioned, or in any way alluded to, in the Nausârî grants. The other six records all mention him as Gôvindarâja. Dhruva is mentioned by his proper name in only the Bhâdâna grant, which speaks ofhim as Dhruv-âṅka adhirâja, “ the king whohad the mark, stigma, or brand, of Dhruva,” and does not exhibit any of his other appellations. The other seven records all mention him as Nirupama. But the Dêôlîand Karhâḍ grants use also his well established biruda Kalivallabha. And the Sâṅglî grant puts forward for him a very questionable new biruda in the form of Iddhatêjas. ________________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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