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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE SENDRAKAS The use of Nikumbha as a biruda prefixed to the name of Jayaśakti suggests that the word is a biruda in the name Nikumbhallaśakti also and, therefore, the real name of the prince was probably Allaśakti. Of the four princes named in the Mundkhēdē plates two,— Ādityaśakti and Allaśakti, —are thus common to our grant. This shows that Nikumbha was another name or title of Bhānuśakti, and he being the founder of the family, it was used as a biruda by his descendants. It is again plain that Jayaśakti was the son of the Allaśakti who issued the present plates. As stated above, Allaśakti’s present grant was made in the year 404, while Jayaśakti’s Mundkhēde plates were issued in the year 602. The only way in which we can reconcile these two dates is to refer the former to the Kalachuri era and take it to correspond to 653 or 654 A.C., and the latter to the Śaka era, corresponding to 680 A.C. As Jayaśakti was the son of Allaśakti, the interval of nearly twenty-six years between the two dates appears quite natural. Referring the date of the present grant to the Kalachuri era, we find that according to the epoch of 248-49 A.C., the new-moon day of the pūrņimānta Āshādha in the current Kalachuri year 404 fell on Saturday, the 1st of June 653 A.C. when there was a solar eclipse1 as stated in the present record. There was no solar eclipse either in pūrņimānta or amānta Āshādha in 652 A.C. or 654 A.C. The date of the present plates is noteworthy, because it is one of the two early verifiable dates of the Kalachuri era which cite a current year,2 and secondly its month was pūrņimānta,3 while the prevailing custom in Gujarat and the Deccan was to cite amānta months. The Kalachuri year, as shown elsewhere, was Kārttikādi. From an examination of several dates of the Vikrama era, Kielhorn came to the conclusion that the southern (Kārttikādi) year of the Vikarma era was joined with the pūrņimānta as with often as with the amānta scheme.4 It should, therefore, cause no surprise if we find that the Kārttikādi year of the Kalachuri era also was occasionally and exceptionally joined with the pūrņimānta scheme in Gujarat and the adjoining country.
Of the geographical names mentioned in the present grant, Pippalakheta is probably Pimpalner, about 9 miles west of Kasare. The river Parnandha may be the Panjhra which flows along the northern boundary of Pimpalner. The land to the south of it was, therefore, within the boundary of the village as stated in the present grant 1The eclipse was a total one and was visible in India.
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