|
The Indian Analyst
|
North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTION OF THE PARAMARAS OF JALOR JĀLŌR STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF VĪSALA ...The object of the inscription is to record that Mēlaradēvī, queen of the king Vīsala of the Paramāra family, furnished the temple of Śindhurājēśvara with a golden cupola (11. 11-12), on the fifth day of the bright half of Āshāḍha in Saṁvat 1174, on Tuesday which must be referred to the Vikrama era and which corresponds to 25th June, 1118 A.C.[1] ...The record commences with the familiar legend relating to the creation of the Paramāra ruling house by Vasishṭha, from his sacrificial fire (11. 1-2). and then gives the names of the rulers of the family to which Vīsala belonged. The first of these names is that of Vākpatirāja, and he is stated to have been followed, in succession, by Chandana, Dēvarāṭ, Aparājita, Vijjala, Dhārāvarsha and Vīsala, each of these kings being mentioned as the son and successor of his predecessor. The inscription then ends with the date, which we have just seen It may also be mentioned here that the record does not contain any invocatory or imprecatory verse, nor does it mention anything about the achievement of any of the rulers. ... The importance of the inscription lies in the fact that it reveals a new Paramāra house, with its capital at Jālōr where it was discovered, and the reference to its origin from the fire-pit of Vasisṭha goes to indicate that it was related to the main house of the Paramāras of Mālava or to any other branch. As we have just seen, the first name mentioned in the record is that of Vākpatirāja; and counting back from V.S. 1174 when the present record was put stone and allotting twenty years to each of the six generations, D.B. Bhandarkar concluded that the Pāramāra family had been reigning at Jālōr since 120 years before V.S. 1174, i.e., since V.S. 1054 or 997 A.C., and this is approximately the time when Vākpati=-Muñja, the well-known Paramāra ruler of Mālwā, closed his reign.[2] This ruler, as we know not only from the Paramāra court- poet Parimala.[3] but also from the Kauthēm grant of the Chālukya Vikramāditya VI, a verdict of the third party, in his long-drawn war with the Chāhamānas of Nāḍōl, who succeeded in snatching from them a part of their region around Jālōr ; and we also know that he placed his son Chandana in charge of this newly conquered region. Since then this subordinate house founded by Chandana was ruling over this territory, with Jālōr as the seat of its government as can be known from the find of the present inscription at that place.
...The view expressed above, however, is not conclusive to establish a family connection between the two houses. As against it, for example, it may be pointed out that we have no evidence to show that Vākpati had a son of the name of Chandana whom he placed in charge of this territory; and accordingly, the Vākpati of the present inscription cannot be identified with his namesake who flourished in the imperial Paramāra house. Thus nothing can be definitely said unless we get more material to enlighten us on the point. ... The temple of Sindhurājēśvara is not in existence now; but as suggested by Reu,[4] it was probably built by Sindhurāja, the founder of the Paramāra house of Ābū, however, we cannot here preclude the possibility of its construction in the ruler of the same name and a younger brother of Vākpati-Muñja himself who flourished in the closing years of the tenth century and thus much before the time of the present inscription. ... It may also noted here that the present one is the only record found so far of this branch of the Paramāras. How long this those continued to hold this region is not known, but in V.S. 1218 or some time earlier we find Kīrttipāla, the youngest son of the Nāḍōl Chāhamāna Ālhaṇa, transferring his capital from Nāḍōl to this place: ...
No place-name occurs in the inscription
[1]
Also see Ind. Ant., Vol. LXII, p. 41.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| > |
|
>
|