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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
KALCHURI OF TRIPURI Vāmarāja thus ruled over a large kingdom extending from the Gumti in the north to the Narmada in the south, and comprising the modern Bundelkhand, Beghelkhand, Saugor and Jabalpur Districts of Madhya Pradesh and the central portion of Uttar Pradesh. He assumed the Imperial titles Paramabhattāraka, Mahārajādhiraja and Paramesvara. As no records of his time have yet been discovered, we have no further knowledge of the political events in his reign.
Since the time of Vārmarāja, the Kalachuris came to be known as Chaidyas of lords
of the Chēdi country. As Pargiter has Shown,1 Chēdi was originally the name of the
country along the south bank of the Yamunā from the Chambal on the north-west to the
Kārvī (which flows north-east of Chitrakūta) on the south-east. Its limits southward
were the plateau of Malwa and the hills of Bundelkhand. In later times, Chēdi came to
signify the modern province of Baghelkhand, which remained in the possession of the
Kalachuris almost till their downfall. Vāmarāja seems to have transferred his capital
from Māhishmatī to Tripurī, modern Tewar, 6 miles west of Jabalpur. This city dates
back to very ancient times. It is mentioned in the Mahābhārata,2 and is also known from
very rare copper coins with the legend Tipuri (Sanskrit, Tripurī) in Brāhmī characters of
the late third or early second century B. C.3 Varāhamihira places the city in the south-eastern division,4 and Hēmachandra calls it Chēdi-nagarī, the capital of the Chēdi country.5
The surrounding country called Traipura is mentioned in the Mahābhārata6 and the Matsya-purāna.7 The Tripurī-vishaya (the district of Tripurī) is described, in the Betul plates of
Sankshōbha, as situated in the Dabhālā (i.e. Dāhala) country,8 which was under the rule 1 J. A. S. B., Vol. LXIV, pp. 249 ff.
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