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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR vidyā.² Verse 15 tells us that Brahmadēva, the well-known feudatory who obtained an easy victory by means of the Śākambharī vidyā which he had learnt from Dēlhūka, considered him as an equal of Bṛihaspati, the preceptor of gods. From the Ratanpur stone inscription of K. 915 we know that Brahmadēva was the chief feudatory (māṇḍalik-āgraṇi) of Pṛithvīdēva II.² The latter had called him specially from Talahāri maṇḍala and entrusted the government of the kingdom to him. He seems to have fought in the battle of Chakrakōṭa and obtained an easy victory which he ascribed to his know- ledge of the Śākambhari vidyā. Of the geographical names which occur in the present grant, Kōsala has already been shown to be the ancient name of Chhattisgarh and the adjoining territory to the east. Paṇḍaratalāī, the village granted may be identical with that mentioned in the Shēorinārāyaṇ inscription of K. 919, where Āmaṇadēva, a scion of a collateral branch of the Kalachuri family, made some benefactions. There are several villages of the name Peṇḍri or Peṇḍriā in Chhattisgarh, but the one nearest to Bilaigarh and Shēorinārāyaṇ is Peṇḍriā, about 7 miles north-west of the latter place. Ēvaḍi, the head-quarters of the maṇḍala of the same name, cannot be identified.
1 Śākambharī is a name of Durgā. Śākambbari vidyā seems to refer to some superhuman power which
Brahmadēva attained by propitiating the goddess. For another instance of such belief, see the Pujāripāli
stone inscription of Gōpāladēva, No. 144.
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