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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
ADMINISTRATION
a province. Miriñja[1] , Kuṇḍi,[2] Eḍenāḍa[3] etc., which were the headquarters of subdivisions, were also probably reckoned among towns. Pranālaka[4], modern Panhāḷā, was the fortifield capital of the Kolhāpur Śilāhāras, while Vaḷivāḍa[5] near Kolhāpur was probably their country residence. Several villages have been named in land-grants asobjects of donations or as forming their boundaries. Their names ended in pallī or pallikā (e.g. Mañchakapallī,[6] Chikhyallapallikā[7]), vallī (e.g. Koṭilavallī[8]), vāḍa ( e.g. Pāṇīvāḍa,[9] Tīravāḍa[10] etc. ), grāma (e.g. Vaṭṭāragrāma)[11] Bōpa-grāma,[12] Chāṇḍijē-grāma,[13] Kaśēli-grāma[14] etc. When two villages with identical names were situated near each other or in the same region, bṛihat (large) or laghu (small) was prefixed to their names according to their size to distinguish them from each other. See e.g. Bṛihat-Aḍaṇikā[15] and Laghu-Aḍaṇikā[16] mentioned in a grant of Mummuṇi. When villages had hamlets attached to them, they were denoted by the term vāḍī. See e.g. Āvaḍi nāma vāḍī in the Balipattana plates[17] of Raṭṭaraja.
.. The form of government in all the three states of the Śilāhāras was monarchical. The Śilāhāras of North and South Koṅkaṇ rose to power as feudatories of the Rāshṭrakūṭas. Saṇaphulla, the founder of the southern branch, is said to have received his kingdom from the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Kṛishṇa I.[18] Kapardin I, the progenitor of the northern branch, was probably placed in charge of North Koṅkaṇ by the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Gōvinda III. Both these branches were loyal to their Rāshṭrakūṭa sovereigns, and did not claim any higher title than Mahāsāmanta[19] in their earliest records. As their power and prestige increased, they began to assume higher titles, though of a feudatory type, such as Mahā-sāmata-śēkhara[20], or Mahā-sāmant-ādhipati,[21] but they did not throw off the Rāshṭrakūṭa suzerainty. Even after the Rāshṭrakūṭas were overthrown by the Later Chālukya king Tailapa II, they continued to mention their genealogy in their grants, and expressed their regret over the downfall of their former suzerains.[22] The third branch ruling over Southern Mahārāshṭra does not mention any Rāshṭrakūṭa suzerain probably because it established itself when the Rāshṭrakūṭas had been overthrown. Besides, the earliest records of the family, in which such mention can be expected, have not been found.
The Śilāhāras were very fond of assuming titles and birudas. The Dive Āgar plate[23] of
[1] No. 43, line 11 ; No. 45, line 33.
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