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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
KALACHURI CHEDI - ERA Sēndrakas, who held Southern Gujarat and Khandesh as feudatories of the Western Chālukyas, and four more, viz., K. 421, 436, 443 and 490 of Nos. 27-30, furnished by the records of a feudatory Chālukya family which was at first ruling over the Nasik Districts, but later on supplanted the Sēndrakas in Southern Gujarat. Family, the Hariśchandrīyas, whom the Western Chālukyas placed in charge of Konkan and the Nasik District, furnish only one date, viz., K. 461 of No. 31, After K. 461 (709-10 A. C.) we have no dates of this era from Konkan or Maharashtra. Even before this date we find that the era was yielding ground to its rival, the Śaka era. The Western Chālukyas and their feudatories, the Sēndrakas, who came from the Kanarese country, were using the Śaka era in their home province. When they conquered and established themselves in Gujarat and Maharashtra, they continued to use the Kalachuri era evidently because it had become the habitual reckoning of that part of the country, but they gradually introduced there the Śaka era which was current in their home province. The Sēndraka prince Allaśakti, for instance, issued two charters in 656 A. C. Both of them were granted in Gujarat, but while one of them (No. 26) which records the gift of a village in Gujarāt is dated in the year 406 of the Kalachuri era, the other which registers the donation of another village situated in Khandesh bears the date 577 of the Śaka era.1 Allaśakti’s son Jayaśakti also, who was ruling over Khandesh, dates his Mundkhēdē plates in the Śaka era.2 The Gujarat branch of the Chālukyas generally used the Kalachuri era in dating their land-grants in Gujarat. But Mangalarāja, who succeeded Dharāśraya-Jayasimha, is known to have issued a charter, dated in the year 653 of the Śaka era.3 The charter is not forthcoming now, but in view of another record of the same prince from the Thana District4 it may be conjectured that it registered a grant of land in North Konkan.
In the Nasik District and Gujarat the Kalachuri era lingered a little longer. The latest date of that era from the Nasik District is K. 461 (710-11 A. C.).5 The Śaka era, which had already penetrated into Southern Maharashtra before 687 A. C., the date of the Jejuri plates of Vinayāditya,6 soon ousted the Kalachuri era from Northern Maharashtra also. In Gujarat the era was current for at least 30 years more till 740 A. C.; for, the Navsāri plates of Avanjanāśraya-Pulakēśin are dated K. 490 (740 A. C.). After Pulakeśinâs death, the country to the north of the Kīm was occupied by the Chāhamānas, who, coming as they did from the north, had a predilection for the Vikrama era. Their Hansot grant found in Gujarat is dated V. 814 (756 A.C.).7 Southern Gujarat was held a feudatory Rāshtrakūta family which for the first time introduced the Śaka era in that part of the country. Their earliest grant from Gujarat is dated Śaka 679 (757 A. C.).8 After the middle of the 8th century A.C. we have no date of the Kalachuri era from Konkan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, the provinces where it had originated five centuries before. When the Kalachuris migrated to Central India and shifted their capitals to Kālañjara
and Tripurī, They took with them the era which they had habitually used in their earlier
1 See the Nāgad plates, dated Śaka 577, edited, by G. H. Khare in the Samśōdhaka (Dhulia), Vol. VIII.
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