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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA ḌONGARGĀON STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF JAGADDEVA enemies who were then invading the Paramāra kingdom in the last days of Bhōja ; and this we propose to examine here in detail. ... As for the relationship of Udayāditya with Bhōja, we find that some of the Paramāra records describe the former of these rulers as meditating on the feet of the latter ; and the Udaypur praśasti, which is explicit in stating the relationship of each of the princes mentioned in it with his predecessor, simply says that Bhōja was followed on the throne by Udayāditya. [1] The Nagpur Museum stone inscription of Naravarman introduces Udayāditya as a bandhu of Bhōjadēva ; [2] and as the word bandhu signifies ‘a relative in general’, Kielhorn was right in taking the word as such, [3] and this view has been adopted by scholars since his time. Thus the information conveyed by the present inscription in clear words, viz., that Udayāditya was a brother of Bhōjadēva is indeed valuable ; and in view of this, the altogether different genealogy of the former of these kings recorded in a sixteenth century inscription mentioning him to have been the son of Gyātā, grandson of Gōṇḍala and great-grandson of Śūravīra of the Paramāra family, [4] has to be rejected. The relationship between the two rulers is stated in very clear words also in the following inscription, as we shall see presently. ...The other important information furnished by verse 5 of the present inscription concerns the number of enemies to be three who attacked Mālava, which was rescued by Udayāditya by defeating them all. As we shall see while editing the Nagpur Museum stone inscription, [5] these three enemies were the Kalachuri karṇa (1041-1072 A.C.) and the Chālukya Sōmēśvara II (1069-1076 A.C.) the son of Āhavamalla-Sōmēśvara I. who had dispatched his general, the Gaṅga Udayāditya, and his feudatory the Hoysaḷa Eṛeyaṅga. This was the second Kalachuri invasion of Mālwā, the first being the one which occurred some fifteen years previously when Bhōja died and his successor Jayasiṁha I succeeded in driving out the allied armies of the Kalachuri Karṇa and the Chaulukya Bhīma with the help of Vikramāditya VI. And how the Kalachuri Karṇa and his allies were routed and turned back by Udayāditya will be described below, while editing the Nagpur Museum stone inscription.
...The success of Udayāditya in saving the kingdom from the catastrophe made him far-famed and thus the statement made in verse 6 of the present inscription, though poetic, appears to be well founded. It says that “the quarters were perforce occupied by his pure fame, the caverns by his enemies and the directions by the poems of his supplicants.’’ The next verse (No. 7) introduces Jagaddēva who is stated to have born to Udayāditya in consequence of the latter’s adoration to Hara whom he requested to give him a son after his heart, though he had some (more than two). [6] The next verse states that the Royal Fortune offered herself to Jagaddēva, but the renounced this favour, apprehending that to surpass his elder brother would be incurring a sin. [7] This statement would suggest that Jagaddēva who was probably the youngest of all the brother was appointed by his father as his successor, regarding him his favourite, but he declined the offer.
...Jagaddēva is not mentioned in any of the Paramāra records except in the present and in
the one that follows ; but his name appears in some of the Hoysaḷa inscriptions describing him
as the king of Mālava.
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On the basis of this statement he was supposed by D.C. Ganguly to
be identical with Lakshmadēva, another son of Udayāditya.
[9]
But the present inscription makes
it clear that he was a different personage from Lakshmadēva and also that he relinquished his
claim to the throne in favour of his brother who was probably Naravarman. This also shows
[1] See Nos. 23, 31, 34 ; and No, v, 21
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