South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Nos. III.-VIII., X.-XVIII., XXI.-XXIII. and XXXII.^[1] In No. XXXII. we find ṭhakurâjñî as the title of Saṁtôshâ, the mother of Têjaḥpâla’s second wife Suhaḍâdêvî, whose maternal grandfather and great-grandfather are called ṭhaº. As shown by Nos. XXVI., XXVII. and XXX., Vastupâla, the elder brother if Têjaḥpâla, bore the title if saṁghapati.^[2] From the ninth sarga of the Kîrtikaumudî it appears that he had earned this title by organising and conducting a great pilgrimage to the tîrthas of Śatruṁjaya, Raivataka and Prabhâsa. The title itself if alluded to in sarga IX. verse 12, where it is said : ‘ He dined when all (others) had dined ; he went to sleep when all the (other) pilgrims had fallen into slumber ; he was the first to awake. In this manner he performed the vow of being a saṁghaprabhu.’^[3] Seven times female relatives of Têjaḥpâla are given the title of bâî (Nos. IV., XI., XXVI., XXVII., XXIX.-XXXI.)

No. XXXII. mentions the Môḍha jñâti in Pattana as the tribe to which the family of Suhaḍâdêvî, the second wife of Têjaḥpâla, belonged.

The saints whose images were set up are the Jina Supârśva (No. XII), Muni Suvrata (No. XXI.) Vârisêṇa^[4] (No. XXIV.), Chandrânana (No. XXV.), the eternal Jina Ṛishabha (No. XXX.), the eternal Jina Vardhamâna (No. XXXI.), and the tîrthakaras^[5] Sîmaṁdharasvâmin^[6] (No. XXVI.), the Jina Yugaṁdharasvâmin (No. XXVII.), the Jina Bâhu (No. XXVIII.), and Subâhu (No. XXIX.).

Nos. IV.-XVIII. are dated in the Vikrama year 1288 ; Nos. XIX.-XXIII. in the Vikrama year 1290 ; Nos. XXIV. and XXV. on the seventh day of the dark half of Chaitra in the Vikrama year 1293 ; Nos. XXVI.-XXXI.^[7] on Friday, the eighth day of the dark half of Chaitra in the Vikrama year 1293, which, for the Kârttikâdi V. 1293 expired and the pûrṇimânta Chaitra, regularly corresponds to Friday, 20th February A.D. 1237 ; No. XXXII. is dated on Thursday, the fourteenth day of the dark half of Vaiśâkha in the Vikrama year 1297, which for the Kârttikâdi V. 1297 expired and the pûrṇimânta Vaiśâkha, regularly corresponds to Thursday, 11th April A.D. 1241.

No. I.^[8]

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^[1] Similarly in the pedigree of Têjaḥpâla’s wife Anupamadêvî in No. II. l. 7 f. four persons are called mahaṁº, while the rest is styled ṭhaº.
^[2] The same title is applied to Vastupâla in No. II. l. 4 ^[3] The title of saṁghapati occurs also in the Śatruṁjayamâhâtmya. According to XIV. 84 ff. it was conferred by Pârśva on his relative Hastisêna, who afterwards undertook a pilgrimage to various holy places.
^[4] The correct Sanskrit form would be Vârishêṇa.
^[5] The four tîrthakaras are distinguished by the epithet viharamṇa, the exact meaning of which is unknown to me.
^[6] The Jina Sîmaṁdharasvâmin is known from Hêmachandra’s Sthavirâvalicharita, IX. 95 ff. 95 ff. and the Śatruṁjayamâhâtmya, I 163.
^[7] Of No. XXVIII. the first line (containing the date) is lost , but it is almost certain that the inscription was dated in the same year.
^[8] On a black slab built into a niche in the corridor. No. 1740 of Mr. Cousens’s list.
^[9] Expressed by a symbol.