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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR KOSGAIN STONE INSCRIPTION (No. 1) OF VAHARA The inscription is not dated,¹ but from the other inscription on the same stone,² which belongs to the same reign and is dated in the Vikrama year 1570, as well as from the Ratanpur inscription³dated in the Vikrama year 1552, which mentions the artisans Chhītaku and Māṇḍana, it is clear that Vāharēndra flourished at the end of the fifteenth and in the beginning of the sixteenth century A. C. There are only two places mentioned in the present record. Of them, Ratnapura, already identified, was for a long time the capital of the Kalachuris in Chhattisgarh, through at the time of the present praśasti the seat of the government seems to have been shifted to the fort of Kosgain in the hilly tract to the north-east, probably on account of Muslim invasions. Kōsaṅga is evidently the fort of Kosgain in the former Chhuri Zamindārī, where the inscribed stone was originally discovered.4
1 According to Hiralal, the inscription was dated, but has broken off exactly where the year was
given. This does not appear to be correct. The date, if the inscription contained one, should have come
at the end as in No. 106 below, and there the record is fairly well preserved.
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