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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
.. The grant was made on the occasion of a lunar eclipse, on Friday, the full-moon tithi of Bhādrapada, in the cyclic year Pramōda, when 1073 Śaka years had elapsed. The date does not agree for the expired Śaka year 1073 ; for the tithi then fell on a Tuesday (28th August A.D. 1151), though there was a lunar eclipse on that day. Besides, the cyclic year according to the southern luni-solar system was Prajāpati, not Pramōda as stated in the present grant. Like the Śaka year 1065 of the Kolhāpur stone inscriptions (No. 53 above) the Śaka year 1073 must be taken as a current one. The tithi then ended 17 h. after mean sunrise of Friday (the 8th September, A.D. 1150), there was a lunar eclipse visible in India, and the cyclic year also was Pramōda as required[1]. This is, therefore, one more instance of a current Śaka year being cited in the records of the Śilāhāras of Kolhapur. .. The last two lines of the present inscription in Old-Kannaḍa state that it was incised by Gōvyōja, son of the Goldsmith Bammyōja and lay-disciple of Abhinandadeva.
.. As for the localities mentioned in the present inscription, Kielhorn read doubtfully the name of the territorial division in which the village Maḍalūra was situated as . . ṇavukagegoḷḷa, and conjucturally identified it with Kāgal[1]. But the name of the division was probably Paṇaturage as suggested by Dikshit[2]. He identified it with Paṇutre, 14 miles west by south of Kolhāpur. He identified Maḍalūra with Mandūr, which lies about 3 miles west of Paṇutrē. I could not find this name in the List of Towns and Villages published by the Census Department of Mahārāshtra (1965). Madalūra may be modern Maḍūr in the Bhudargaḍ tālukā of the Kolhāpur District. It lies about 4 miles almost due south of Gārgōṭī. TEXT[3]
[1] Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 212. |
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