South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

218.─Châ. Vi. 45^[1] (for 47 ?).─Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. XI. p. 247. Koḍikop Kanarese inscription of the W. Châlukya (Vikramâditya VI.) Tribhuvanamalla, reigning at Jayantîpura, and of his feudatory, the Sinda Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Âcha (Âchama) II. :^[2]─

(L. 16).─śrîmat(ch-)Châḷukya-Vikrama-kâlada 45neya Śubhakri(kṛi)t-saṁva-chchha(tsa)rada Chaitra-su(śu)ddha 8 Sômavâra uttarâyaṇasaṁkrântiy-aṁdu.

The date is intrinsically wrong and of course irregular for both Śubhakrit = Ś. 1044 and Ś. 1042.

219.─Châ. Vi. 46.^[3]─PSOCI. No. 138 ; Mysore Inscr. No. 7, p. 14. Dâvaṇgere Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya Vikramâditya VI. Tribhuvanamalla, and of his feudatory, the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Tribhuvanamalla Pâṇḍyadêva, ‘ lord of Kâñchîpura,’ ruling the Noḷambavâḍi Thirty-two-thousand :─

(L. 37).─Châḷukya-Vikrama-varshada 46neya Plava-saṁvatsarad=Âśvija-bahuḷa-paṁchami Âdivârad=aṁdu.

[Plava = Ś. 1043] : Sunday, 2nd October A.D. 1121.

220.─Ś. 1045.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 15. Têrdâḷ Kanarese Jaina inscription. Date of a grant of the Maṇḍalika Goṅka^[4] (Goṅkidêvarasa) of Têridâḷa, a dependent of the W. Châlukya Vikramâditya VI. Tribhuvanamalla Permâḍirâya, and of his feudatory, the Raṭṭa Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Kârtavîrya II.,^[5] ‘ lord of Lattanûra :’─

(L. 49).─Sa(śa)ka-va[r*]sha 1045neya Śu(śô)bhakri(kṛi)t-saṁvatsarada Vaiśâkhada puṇṇami Bra(bṛi)haspativâradalu.

Thursday, 12th April A.D. 1123 ; see ibid. Vol. XXIII. p. 116, No. 19.

The inscription mentions, as Goṅka’s preceptor, the Maṇḍalâchârya Mâghaṇandi-saiddhântika, the priest of the temple of Rûpa-Nârâyaṇa at Kollâpura (Kollagira). The same Mâghaṇandi-saiddhântika also is described as the preceptor of the Sâmanta Nimbadêva.^[6]

(For later dates in the same inscription see below, Nos. 256 and 258).

221.─Ś. 1047.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 212, No. 56. Date of a Narêndra Kanarese inscription of the W. Châlukya Vikramâditya VI :─

(L. 108).─Śaka-varshaṁ 1047neya Visvâ(śvâ)vasu-saṁvatsara [Bhâ]drapada-ba 13 Śukravâra mahâtithi-yugâdiy-aṁdu.

Friday, 28th August A.D. 1125 ; see ibid. Vol. XXIII. p. 124, No. 67.

222.─ PSOCI. No. 176 ; Mysore Inscr. p. 63, p. 135. Baḷagâṁve Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya (Vikramâditya VI.) Tribhuvanamalla, and of his feudatory, the Daṇḍanâyaka Guṇḍamarasa.

223.─PSOCI. No. 108. Chauḍadâmpur incomplete Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya Vikramâditya VI. Tribhuvanamalla ; of his feudatory, the Mahâsâmantâdhipati Gôvindarasa, and of a subordinate (?) of the latter, of the Gutta Mahâsâmanta (?) Malla (Mallidêva),^[7] the son of Gutta I. who was the son of Mâgutta.

224.─[Ś. 872*].─Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. XI. p. 224. Narêgal incomplete Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Châlukya Vikramâditya VI. Tribhuvanamalla Permâḍi, and of

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^[1] For a Drâkshârâma inscription dated in S. 1042 and in the Châlukya-Vikrama year 45, see Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 37.
^[2] See Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 574 ; and below, No. 224.
^[3] For two Kanarese inscriptions at the fort of Gutti, of the years 46 and 47 (Plava and Śubhakṛit), see South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. p. 167.
^[4] He is stated to have sprung from the family of Jîmûtavâhana ; compare below, No. 301 ff.
^[5] But the date of the grant does not belong to his time ; see Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 554, note 4 ; and above. No. 201.
^[6] See also below, Nos. 319 and 413.
^[7] See Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 80. The time of the inscription according to Dr. Fleet is about A.D. 1115.─ Compare below, No. 298.