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Dr. Bhandarkar

J.F. Fleet

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J. Ramayya

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

301.─Ś. 930.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 297, and Plate. Khârêpâṭaṇ plates[2] of the Silâra Maṇḍalika Raṭṭarâja, a feudatory of the W. Châlukya Mahârâjâdhirâja (Irivabeḍaṅga) Satyâśraya :

(L. 40).─ Śakanṛipakâl-âtîta-samvatsara-nava-śatêshu triṁśad-adhikêshu pravarttamâna- Kîlaka-saṁvatsar-ântargata-Jyêshṭha-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ.

In the race of the Râshṭrakûṭa lords there was Dantidurga ; his father’s brother Kṛishṇarâja [I.] ; his son Gôvindarâja [II.] ; [his younger brother] Nirupama [Dhruvarâja] ; his son Jagattuṅga [I.] [Gôvindarâja III.] ; his son Amôghavarsha [I.] ; his son Akâlavarsha [Kṛishṇarâja II.] ; his grandson Indrarâja [III.] ; his son Amôghavarsha [II.] ; his younger brother Gôvindarâja [IV.] ; his father’s brother (the son of Jagattuṅga [II. who did not reign]) Vaddiga ; his son Kṛishṇarâja [III.] ; his brother Khôṭika (Khoṭṭiga) ; his brother’s son Kakkala (Kakkarâja II.), was defeated by the [W.] Châlukya Tailapa (Taila II.), whose son Satyâśraya is represented as ruling over Raṭṭapâṭî.

Genealogy of Raṭṭarâja :─ From the regent of the Vidyâdhara, Jîmûtakêtu’s son Jîmûtavâhana, sprang the Silâra family. To that family belonged : [Sa]ṇaphulla, a favourite of [the Râshṭrakûṭa] Kṛishṇarâja [I.] ; his son Dhammiyara (founded Valipattana) ; his son Aiyaparâja ; his son Avasara [I.] ; his son Âdityavarman ; his son Avasara [II.] ; his son Indrarâja ; his son Bhîma ; his son Avasara [III.] ; his son, the king (râjan) Raṭṭa (Raṭṭarâja). The inscription mentions the Mattamayûra line of ascetics ; see North. Inscr. No. 405.

302.─Ś. 765(?).─ Kaṇheri inscription of the [Śîlâra] Mahâsâmanta Pullaśakti,[3] the successor of Kapardin I., ‘ the lord of Koṅkaṇa ;’ see above, No. 72.

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303.─Ś. 775 (for 773).─ Kaṇheri inscription of the [Śîlâra] Mahâsâmanta Kapardin II., the successor of Pullaśakti, ‘ lord of the whole Koṅkaṇa ;’ see above, No. 73.

304.─Ś. 799.─ Kaṇheri inscription of the [Śîlâra] Mahâsâmanta Kapardin II., ‘ the lord of Koṅkaṇa ;’ see above, No. 80.

305.─Ś. 919.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 271, and Plates. Bhâdâna[4] plates of the Śîlâra Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Aparâjitadêvarâja, ‘ lord of Tagara,’[5] issued (after the downfall of the Raṭta, i.e. Râshṭrakûṭa, rule) from Sthânaka :─

(L. 53).─ Sa(śa)kanṛipakâl-âtîta-samvatsara-sa(sâ)têshu navasu(sv=) ê k ô n a v i ṁ ś a t y - uttarêshu pravarttamâna-Hêmalamva(mba)-śamvatsar-ânta[6] Âshâḍha-va(ba)hula-chatusyâṁ(rthyâm=) anka(ṅka)tô=pi samvat 919 Âshâḍha-vadi 4 . . . . saṁjâta-dakshiṇâyana-Karkkaṭa-sa[ṁ]krânti-parvvaṇi.

The date is not quite regular ; the day intended may be the 25th or the 26th June A.D. 997 ; see ibid. p. 270.

The inscription first gives the following list of the Raṭṭa (Râshṭrakûṭa) kings :─ 1, Gôvindarâja [I.] ; 2, Karkarâja [I.] ; 3, Indrarâja [II.]; 4, his son Dantivarman [II.] ; 5, Karkarâja’s son Kṛishṇarâja [I.] ; 6, Gôvindarâja [Ii.]; 7, his younger brother Dhruva ; 8, his son Jagattuṅga [I.] [Gôvindarâja III.] ; 9, Durlabha Amôghavarsha [I.] ; 10, his son Kṛishṇarâja [II.]; 11, Jagattuṅga’s[7] son Indradêva [III.] Nityaṁvarsha ; 12, his son Amôghavarsha [II.] (reigned

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[1] Compare above, No. 94, note, and 220, note.
[2] The plates are numbered with numeral figures.
[3] Below, in No. 305 ff., the name is spelt Pulaśakti.
[4] This is the name of the village granted. The plates were found in the Bhiwaṇḍi tâluka of the Ṭhâṇâ district and belong to Colonel A. F. Dobbs.
[5] See Dr. Fleet in Jour. Roy. As. Soc. 1901, p. 537.
[6] Read –saṁvatsar-ântargat-Âshâḍha-.
[7] This Jagattuṅga [II.] was a son of Kṛishṇarâja II.; he did not reign.

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