South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

145.─Ś. 919.─ PSOCI. No. 214 ; Mysore Inscr. No. 99, p. 180. Tâḷgund Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya Tailapa Âhavamalla (Taila II.), and of his feudatory Bhîmarasa :─ ‘Śaka 919 (in figures, l. 12), the Hêmalambi saṁvatsara ; Sunday, the fifty day of the bright fortnight of (?) Âśvayuja ;’ (Mys. Inscr. : ‘ Vaiśâkha, the 8th day of the moon’s decrease,^[1] Sunday,’ which would be Sunday, 2nd May A.D. 997).

146.─Ś. 924.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 297, No. 3, and Vol. XII. p. 210, No. 31. Notice of a Gadag Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya Irivabeḍaṅga Satyâśraya,^[2] and of his feudatory, the Mahâsâmanta Sôbhanarasa :^[3]─

(L. 7.)─Sa(śa)kabhûpâḷakâḷ-âkrâṁta-saṁvatsara-sa(śa)taṁga[ḷ*] 924neya Śubhakṛit-saṁvatsaraṁ pravarttise tadvarsh-âbhyantara-Chaitra-śuddha 5 Âdityavârad=andu. Sunday, 22nd March A.D. 1002.

147.─Ś. 928 (for 928).─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 212, No. 67. Guḍikaṭṭi Kanarese Kâdamba inscription.^[4] Date of the time of (?) the W. Châlukya [Yuvarâja ?] Jayasiṁha II., and of his feudatory, the Kâdamba (of Goa) Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Shashṭhadêva I. :^[5]─

(L. 13).─ Sa(śa)kam=â(a)bda gaja-dvi-nidhi Plavaṁgadoḷu.

(For a later date in the same inscription see below, No. 164).

148.─Ś. 930.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 212, No. 52. Date of a Munawaḷḷi Kanarese inscription of the W. Châlukya (Irivabeḍaṅga) Satyâśraya :─

(L. 10).─ Sa(śa)ka-varisha 930 Kîlaka-[saṁva]tsa[rada] Śrâvaṇa-bahuḷa-chaṭṭi[6] Sômavârad=aṁdu.

Monday, 26th July A.D. 1008.

149.─Ś. 930.─ Khârêpâṭaṇ plates of the Silâra Maṇḍalika Raṭṭarâja, a feudatory of the W. Châlukya (Irivabeḍaṅga) Satyâśraya ; see below, No. 301.

150.─Ś. 930 (for 931).─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XVI. p. 21, Plate. Kauṭhêṁ Plates of the W. Châlukya Mahârâjâdhirâja Vikramâditya V. Tribhuvanamalla, recording a grant made at the Kôṭitîrtha at Kollâpura :─

(L. 61).─ Śakanṛipakâl-âtîta-saṁvatsara-śatêshu navasu tṛiṁ(triṁ)śad-adhikêshu gatêshu 930prava[r*]ttamâna-Saumya-saṁvatsarê paurṇṇamâsyâṁ sômagrahaṇa-parvvaṇi.

Probably the 6th October A.D. 1009, with a lunar eclipse, visible in India.^[7]

In the Châlukya lineage,^[8] after 59 kings at Ayôdhyâ etc., there was Jayasiṁhavallabha [I.] (who conquered the Râshṭrakûṭa Kṛishṇa’s son Indra) ; his son Raṇarâga ; his son Pulakêśin [I.], (lord of Vâtâpipurî) ; his son Kîrtivarman [I.] ; his younger brother Maṅgalîśa ; his elder brother’s son [Pulakêśin II.] Satyâśraya (conquered Harsha [of Kanauj]); his son Neḍamari ; his son Âdityavarman ; his son Vikramâditya [I.] ; his son Yuddhamalla ; his son Vijayâditya ; his son Vikramâditya [II.] ; his son Kîrtivarman [II.] ; a brother (named Bhîma ?) of Vikramâditya [II.] ; his son Kîrtivarman [III.] ; his son Taila [I.] ; his son Vikramâditya [III.], ; his son Bhîma ; his son Ayyaṇa [I.], married a daughter of Kṛishṇa ; their son Vikramâditya [IV.], married Bonthâdêvî, a daughter of the Chêdi Lakshmaṇa ; their son Taila [II.] (conquered the Râshṭrakûṭas

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^[1] But the original seems distinctly to quote the bright fortnight. For the 8th of the bright half Âśvina the date would be Sunday, 12th September A.D. 997.
^[2] For Satyâśraya the inscriptions also have Sattiga and Sattima ; see Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 432.
^[3] See ibid. p. 432, and above, No. 143.
^[4] Put on the stone in A.D. 1052-53.
^[5] See Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 436, note 1 ; p. 439, note 1 ; and p. 567 ; and compare below, No. ; 54.
^[6] This is the true reading of the original, verified by Dr. Fleet.
^[7] In the year Saumya of the date this is the only lunar eclipse that was visible in India.
^[8] In one of the introductory verses the grant glorifies a king named Akalaṅkacharita, who would naturally be understood to be Vikramâditya V. ; but the name was a biruda of Irivabeḍaṅga Satyâśraya.