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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
KALACHURI OF SOUTH KOSALA bhīma III.1 The Purshōttampurī plates of the Yādava Rāmchandar intimate a victory of Simhana’s grandson Krishna over the contemporary king of Kōsala. The latter is not named, but he may have been a successor of the aforementioned Jajjalla. The next notice of the Kalachuri kings of Ratanpur that we get is from the stone
inscriptions of the king Vāhara. The Kosgain inscription.2 of this king mentions the
following pedigree-
Singana
The inscription mentions no political events of the reign of Vāhara’s predecessors. For Vāhara, we have two dates, viz., V. 1552 (1494-95 A.C.), furnished by the Ratanpur inscription,3 and V. 1570 (1513 A.C.), occurring in the Kosgain inscriptions.4 He may, therefore, have reigned from circa 1480 A.C. to 1515 A.C. taking twenty-five years as the average duration of a reign, the accession of Singhana, who flourished five generations before, may be dated in circa 1355 A.C. This Singhana is probably identical with Singha or Simhana mentioned in the Raipur.5 and Khalāri6 stone inscriptions, who also seems to have reigned in the same period; for, his grandson Brahmadēva was ruling at Raipur and Khalāri in V. 1458 (1402 A.C.) and V. 14717 (1415 A.C.). These inscriptions give the following pedigree_
It seems plain, therefore, that in the last quarter of the fourteenth century A.C., the
Ratanpur family of the Kalachuris split into two branches. The elder branch continued
to rule at Ratanpur, while the younger one founded a separate principality with Raipur8
as its capital. Combining the two pedigrees, we get the following genealogy9– 1See the Chātēśvara inscription. J.A.S.B., Vol. LXVII (1898), pp. 317-27.
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