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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
RELIGION The inscription tells us that Rudraśambhu belonged to the line of the Siddhas living at Kadambaguhā and that Mattamayūranātha communicated the supreme splendour to the king Avanti. This description shows that the first two Āchāryas of this line were identical with Amardaktirthanātha1 and Purandara mentioned in the Ranōd inscription. This identification is further supported by aforementioned Gwalior Museum inscription which names Rudraśiva as the spiritual ancestor of Purandara. The Bilhāri inscription further tells us that Hridayśiva was a contemporary of a king of Chēdi (probably Lakshmanarāja II mentioned in the next verse) who invited him to his country.2 He may, therefore, be referred to circa 950 A.C. Taking 25 years as the average duration of a generation, we can place Purandara alias Mattayamyūranātha the fifth ancestor of Hridayaśiva, in circa 825 A.C. Two other inscriptions of this clan, discovered at Chandrēhē3 and Gurgi4
in Vindhya Pradesh, give the following genealogy of the Śaiva Āchāryas who subsequently came to and
settled down in the Chēdi country:
The genealogy in the Chandrēhē inscription begins one generation earlier and that in the Gurgi inscription is carried one generation further; but otherwise the two genara logies are identical. The Chandrēhē inscription is dated K. 724 (972A.C.) It tells us that the Kalachuri king Yuvarājadēva who must evidently be the first king of that name, śiva, who flourished two generation before Prabōdhaśiva (972A.C.) must have lived in circa 925 A.C. He was thus a contemporary of Yuvarājadēva I (circa 915-945 A.C.). Comparing the genealogies in the Bilhāri and Chandrēhē inscriptions we find that
Chūdāśiva of the former must be identical with Śikhāśiva of the latter; for (i) the two
names are synonyms and (ii) their disciples Hridayaśiva and Prabhāvaśiva lived in the same
period, the latter being a senior contemporary of the former as he was invited by an earlier
Chēdi king., viz., Yuvarājadēva I. The immediate ancestors of Chūdāśiva and Śikhāśiva,
viz., Mādhumatēya and Puranada must, therefore, be identical. Purandara evidently
obtained the other name Mādhumatēya beacsue he lived at Madhumati. His disciple is called
Madhumatipati (the lord of Madhumati) in the Chandrēhē inscription. Madhumati,
1Āmaradaka is mentioned as the original habitation of the Śiava Āchāryas the Sōpuriya clan
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