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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Gôdâvarî, Chêbhaṭîkâ Chêhḍî, and Vaṭamukha probably Ôḍhêṁ. Chêhḍî is in the Niphâḍ, and the rest in the Nâsik, tâluka of the Nâsik district. As the inscription expressly refers itself to the reign of the Râshṭrakûṭa sovereign Gôvinda II., no doubt can now be reasonably entertained as to his having sat on the throne. I have else-where[1] adduced reasons why we should consider Gôvinda II. to have actually reigned. Dr. Fleet based his different opining on the words jyêshṭh-ôllaṅghana of a verse occurring in the Waṇî and Râdhanpur grants.[2] But these words, as Professor Kielhorn has remarked, by no means necessitate the conclusion that Dhruva immediately succeeded Kṛishṇa I. to the exclusion of his eldest brother Gôvinda II. from the succession.[3] The new grant places it beyond all doubt that Gôvinda II. did succeed Kṛishṇa I. and did reign. Consequently Dr. Fleet’s view has no grounds to stand upon, unless it can be conclusively shown that this grant is a forgery. Although many Râshṭrakûṭa records have so far been published, they have supplied us with but few dates prior to the time of Gôvinda III. We have Śaka 675 for Dantidurga, the founder of the dynasty, furnished by his Sâmângaḍ plates.[4] The Alâs copper-plate charter,[5] issued by Gôvinda II.. when Yuvarâja or prince-regent, givens the date Śaka 692 for his father Kṛishṇa I. And our plates give a third date, viz. Śaka 701, for Gôvinda II. himself. A fourth date is supplied by the Jaina Harivaṁśa,[6] which was completed in Śaka 705 when Śrîvallabha, son of Kṛishṇa, was ruling over the South. There can be no doubt that this Kṛishṇa is Kṛishṇa I. of the Râshṭrakûṭa family. But it is by no means easy to decide whether by Śrî-vallabha is meant Gôvinda II. or his brother Dhruva,[7] as both had this epithet and were sons of Kṛishṇa I.
TEXT.[8] First Plate.
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[1] Journ. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XX. pp. 133-4.
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