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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA of Udayâditya, the inscription speaking in the following verses only of the eldest two brothers, of whom, after some general praise (v. 11), it is said (v. 12, 13) that, ‘ when the elder of them,[1] the mighty one, who attacked Jagaddêva, the lord of elephants, with his own horse in the van of battle and overturned him and took away his sevenfold (sovereignty), had ruled the kingdom, after him his younger brother also, Vishṇuvardhana, reigned for a long time.’ In other records the defeat of Jagaddêva is attributed to Ballâḷa’s successor Vishṇuvardhana. In an inscription at Bêlûr[2] and in another at Hosakôte[3] Vishṇuvardhana is called ‘ a Bhairava in destroying (or conquering) the armies of Jagaddêva,’ and in an inscription at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa[4] he is said to have drunk the rolling sea of the armies of the lord of Mâḷava, Jagaddêva, and others, sent by the emperor (chakrin). The discrepancy between these statements is removed by an inscription at Lâlanakere,[5] where it is said that at Dôrasamudra the three brothers, Ballâḷa, Vishṇu and Udayâditya, destroyed the army of Jagaddêva and captured his treasury. The joint victory of the three brothers over Jagaddêva must therefore have occurred before A.D. 1118, the earliest reliable date, as far as I know, for Ballâḷa’s successor Vishṇuvardhana.[6] As to Jagaddêva, the term saptâṅga used of his kingdom in the present inscription would seem to indicate, at first sight, that he was an independent ruler ; but it is apparently only a hyperbolical phrase, as the Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa inscription leaves no doubt that he was a feudatory of some emperor who can only be the Western Châlukya king Vikramâditya VI.[7] I am therefore inclined to agree with Dr. Fleet, who looks upon Jagaddêva as identical with the Śântara prince Tribhuvanamalla-Jagaddêva of Paṭṭi-Pombuchchapura[8] who, according to the Baḷagâṁve inscription,[9] was ruling as Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara of Jagadêkamalla II. at Sêtuvinabîḍu in A.D. 1149 , and who, according to an inscription at Anamkoṇḍ,[10] after the defeat of Taila III., laid siege to the fortress of Anumakoṇḍa. The latter event must have taken place between A.D. 1150 and 1163. There would thus lie an interval of at least 32 years, but probably a much longer time, between the Jagaddêva of the Hoysaḷa records and that of the Châlukya and Kâkatîya inscriptions, so that, if the identification should prove correct, Jagaddêva must have enjoyed a considerably long reign.
The next verses (14-17) speak of the conquests and pious gifts of Vishṇuvardhana, ‘ who having given away in religious gifts the whole of his own territory, in order to have a kingdom of his own, invaded Uchchṅgi[11] and other territories belonging to his enemies ; who, invading the whole country from his own abode to Beḷvola, bathed his horse in the Kṛishṇavêrṇâ ; who is again and again reminded by his servants whenever they wait upon him : ‘ Know the Hoysaḷa alone among (all) princes to be unconquerable for king Paramardidêva.”[12] The ____________________________________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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