South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

30.─Ś. 616.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p.301, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 17. Harihar plates of the 14th year of the reign of the W. Chalukya Mahârâjâdhirâja Vinayâditya Satyâśraya, recording a grant made at the request of an Âḷuva king ; issued from Karañjapatra :─

(L.23).- shôḍaśôttara-shachchha(ṭchha)têshu Śaka-varshêshv=atîtêshu pravarddamâna- vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê chaturddaśê varttamânê . . . Kârttikê paurṇṇmâsyâṁ.

Genealogy as in No.27.

31.─ Ind Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 144, and Plate; PSOCI. No.152. Baḷagâṁve Kanarese inscription of the reign of the W. Chalukya[1] Mahârâjâdhirâja Vinayâditya Râjâśraya, and his feudatory, the Mahârâja Pogilli of the Sêndraka family

32.─Ś. 621.─Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 60. Bâdâmi Sanskṛit and Kanarese^[2] inscription of the third year of the reign of the W. Chalukya^[1] Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayâditya Satyâśraya :─

(L. 5).─pravardhamâna-vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê tṛitîyê varttamânê êkaviṁśôttara- shaṭchhatêshu Śaka-varshêshv=atîtêshu Jyê(jyai)shṭhyâṁ paurṇṇamâsyâṁ.

33.─Ś. 622.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 126. Nerûr (now India Office) plates of the 4th year of the reign of the W. Chalukya^[3] Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayâditya Satyâśraya, recording a grant made at the request of a certain Nandereya ; issued from Râsenanagara :─

(L. 30).─ dvâviṁśatyuttara-shaṭchhatêshu Śaka-varshêshv=atîtêshu pravarddhamâna- vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê chaturtthê vartamânê . . . Âshâḍa(ḍha)-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ.

Genealogy as far as Vinayâditya Satyâśraya as in No. 27 ;^[4] his, son, the Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayâditya Satyâśraya.

34.─Ś. 627.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 130. Nerûr (now India Office) plates of the 10th year of the reign of the W. Chalukya^[3] Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayâditya Satyâśraya, recording a grant made at the request of a certain Upêndra :─

(L. 29).─ saptaviṁśatyuttara-shaṭchhatêshu Śaka-varshêshv=atîtêshu pravarddhamâna- vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê daśamê varttamânê . . . mahâ-saptamê(myâṁ ?).^[5] Genealogy as in No. 33.

35.─Ind. Ant. Vol. VIII. p. 285, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 76. Aihoḷe Kanarese inscription of the third month of the 13th year of the reign of the W. Chalukya^[1] Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayâditya Satyâśraya :─

(L. 2).- trayôdaśa-varshamuṁ mu(mû)ru-tiṁgaḷuḷ . . . Âśvayuja-pû[r]ṇṇamâsaduḷ vishupaduḷ.

[S. 631] ; 23rd September A.D. 709 ; see ibid. Vol. XIX. p. 188.^[6]

36.─Ś. 645.─Ind. Ant. Vol.VII. p. 112. Notice of a Lakshmêshwar (spurious^[7]) inscription^[8] (first part of the record) of the 28th year of the reign of the W. Chalukya Vijayâditya Satyâśraya ; issued from Raktapura :─

^[9]Paṁchachatvâriṁśaduttara-shaṭchhatêshu Sa(śa)ka-varshêshv=atîtêshu pravarddhamâna- vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê ashṭâviṁśê varttamânê . . . Bhâdrapada-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ sarvvagrâsi- chaṁdragrahaṇ-ôpalakshitâyaṁ.

20th August A.D. 723 ; a total eclipse of the moon, visible in India.

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^[1] The name Chalukya or Châlukya does not occur in the inscription.
^[2] But the Kanarese part of the inscription is almost entirely illegible.
^[3] The original has Chalikya.
^[4] But Vikramâditya I. is described as the Mahârâjâdhirâja Vikramâditya Satyâśraya.
^[5] Dr. Fleet takes mahâ-saptama to denote one of the divisions of the seven Koṅkaṇas ; see his Dynasties, p. 372.
6 Dr. Fleet now take the equivalent of the date to be the 23rd September A.D. 708 ; see his Dynasties, p. 370, note 5, and p. 372.
7 See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 218, No. 38.
8 Put on the stone in about the second half of the 11th century A.D.
9 From an impression supplied by Dr. Fleet.