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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
the cyclic year being Dundubhi. As in several other records of the Śilāhāras of Kolhāpur, the Śaka year cited here has to be taken as current in order that it should correspond to the cyclic year Dundubhi according to the southern system. The sixth tithi of the bright fortnight of Bhādrapada in this current Śaka year 1065 ended 13 h. after mean sunrise on Friday, the 28th August A.D. 1142. .. The present inscription records certain other gifts made by two officers of the Śilāhāra king Vijayāditya who were in charge of the District of Miriñje[2], viz. Bhāyipayya Nāyaka, who is described as Mahāpradhāna and the Controller of Customs, and Mallapayya Nāyaka, who was the Superintendent of Markets, for the worship of the same god Mādhavēśvara at Seḍambāḷ, and the provision of food to the ascetics living in the maṭha of the temple. The gifts consisted of certain taxes levied on the shops of oilmen, grain-merchants, areca-nut-sellers etc. in certain part of Sēḍambāḷ. The toll-collectors also were required to contribute some portion of the dues collected by them. The gifts were made after washing the feet of Sōvarāśi Siddhāntidēva who, judging by his name, seems to have belonged to the Pāśupata sect of Śaivism. .. Thcis second record in the present inscription is dated Thursday, the 14th tithi of the dark fortnight of Māgha, called Śivarātri, in the Śaka year 1066, the cyclic year being Rudhirōdgarin. This Śaka year also, like that of the previous record, has to be taken as current in order to correspond to the cyclic year Rudhirōdgarin. The fourteenth tithi of the dark fortnight of (amānta) Māgha commenced 12 h. 15 m. after mean sunrise on Thursday, the 20th January, A.D. 1144. Though the tithi was not current at sunrise on Thursday it is coupled therewith as it was current at midnight on that day, which was the moment of the Mahā-Śivarātri[3] sacred to the god Śiva (called Mādhavēśvara in the present record).
.. The great Trading Corporation of the Vīra-Baṇañjas is described as in a previous inscription (No. 49). It is said to have hailed from Ahichchhatra and is called the lord of the town of Ayyāvaḷe. As stated before, this Ahichchhatra is not identical with the homonymous capital of North Pāñchāla, but was the same as Ayyāvoḷe (modern Aihoḷe in Bijāpur District). The merchants of the Corporation are said to have belonged to eight provinces in the various countries. They are further described here as the residents of thirty-two coastal towns, eighteen cities and sixty-four ghaṭikā-sthānas, but these localities are nowhere specified.
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As for the place-names mentioned in the present inscription, Ahichchhatra and
Ayyāvaḷe have already been identified. Miriñje is modern Miraj, the chief town of the
former feudatory State of the same name, now included in the Sānglī District of
Mahārāshṭra. Bāge, as suggested by Barnett, may be either Bāgaḍage or Bāgenāḍa-Seventy of the second part, than the 6 that occurs in the same line with the connected tithi. And the corrected tithi Bhādrapada śukla 6, ended, as required, on Friday, 28th August, A.D. 1142, at about 22 gh. 55 p.” (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX, p.317). This correction of the tithi was also noticed by Kielhorn in his List of Inscriptions of Southern India, No. 322, p. 58. Barnett has referred to this entry in Kielhorn’s List. It is not, therefore, known why he ignored the correction of the tithi first pointed out by Fleet and later adopted by Kielhorn. [2] This is probably the reason why the stone inscription, though it records gifts made for the worship of the
god at Sēḍambāḷ (modern Sheḍbāḷ) and the dues were levied on the commodities sold in the market
of that place, was put up at Sēḍambāḷ but at Miriñje (Miraj). |
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