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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
TRAIKUTAKAS similarity of their names suggests some sort of connection between them. The Traikūtakas were probably at first the feudatories of the Ābhīras whose era they adopted in their records. On the decline of the Ābhīra power, they seem to have asserted their independence. None of the three Traikutaka kings, known from inscriptions and coins, seems to have assumed a higher title than Maharaja. But two of them are known to have issued coins, while one a of them, Dahrasēna, explicitly mentions in his copper plate inscription that he had performed an Aśvamēdha sacrifice. The later Traikūtakas were, therefore, probably independent monarchs, though, as we shall see below, the last of them was ultimately defeated and forced to pay tribute by the Vākātaka king Harishēna. The mention of Trikūta in the description of Raghuâs digvijaya suggests that Kālidāsa, who flourished about 400 A.C. during the reign of Chandragupta II-Vikramāditya, knew of a Traikutaka kingdom on the western coast. The three copper-plate inscriptions of the dynasty edited here belong to a later date. From them and from coins, we get the following genealogy of the Traikutakas:â
The first of these, Indradatta, is known only from the coins of his son Dahrasēna. He is therein given the title Mahārāja. As his son was ruling in the Kalachuri year 207 (=456-57 A.C.), he may be assigned to the period 415-440 A.C.
The second king Dahrasēna is known from his Pārdi plates and silver coins1 found at Daman in South Gujarat,2 Karhad in the Satara District,3 Kazad in the Indapur tālukā of the Poona District4 and some other places.,5 Like his father, he calls himself Maharaja both in the copper-plate inscription and coin-legends. The former supplies the additional information that he performed an Aśvamēdha sacrifice. On his coins he called himself paramavaishnava, âa devout worshipper of Vishnuâ, and in his copper-plate inscription, Bhagavat-pāda-karmakara, âa servant of the feet of Bhagavatâ. The Pardi plates were issued from the victorious royal camp at Āmrakā, and record the donation of a village in the Antarmandali vishaya, which, on the analogy of the Antar-Narmadā vishaya mentioned in inscription No. II, seems to have comprised the territory on both the banks of the Mandalī or modern Mindhōla river. The places mentioned in the grant can be identified in the country between the Pūrnā and the Mindhōlā in south Gujarat. As shown elsewhere, the date of the plates, the year 207, refers to the Kalachuri era, and corresponds to 456-57 A.C. Dahrasēna may, therefore, have reigned from circa 440 A.C. to 465 A.C. Vyaghrasēna, the son and successor of Dahrasēna, is known from his Surat plates and silver coins found at Kazad in the Indapur taluka and other places. His coins,6 which 1 The coins have the legend Maharaj-Andradatta-putra-paramavashnava-śra-Maharaja-Dahrasana representing Mahārāj-Endradatta-putra-paramavaishnava-śrī-Mahārāja-Dahrasēna.
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