North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR

haras of Kolhāpur, but some appear here for the first time, viz. Para-nārī-sahōdara, śaraṇāgatavajra-pañjara [1] and Kaliyuga-Yudhishṭhira. [2] The object of the present inscription is to record the following grants made by Bhōja II at his camp at Valavāḍa for the augmentation of his own kingdom‒(1) a house to serve as the granary of the maṭha of Umā-Mahēśvara constructed by the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇa Lōkaṇa Nāyaka; (2) four white houses given to four Brāhmaṇas‒two Sahavāsīs, viz. Ādityabhaṭṭa and Janārdanabhaṭṭa, and two Karahāṭaka (Karhādē) Brāhmaṇas, viz. Prabhākara Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, residing in the maṭha ; (3) a flower-garden for the worship of the god; (4) a field in the village of Seleyavāḍa comprised in Paṇaturage-gōlla and a house situated in the village of Paṇḍarana for providing food to the Brāhmaṇas ; (5) a field measuring 225 vaprakas by the rod of Eḍenāḍa and a house measuring twelve cubits, and another field measuring . . nivartanas together with a house measuring twelve cubits, free from all taxes, for the five-fold worship of the god and for keeping the maṭha in good repair. The latter field was donated by Lōkaṇa Nāyaka [3] after purchasing it from two persons named Nēmaṇa and Lakshmaṇa.

.. The inscription is dated on the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti, on Tuesday, the fourth tithi of the bright fortnight of Pushya (i.e. Pausha) in the expired Śaka year 1104, when the cyclic year Śubhakṛit was current. The cyclic year for Śaka 1104 was Śubhakṛit according to the southern luni-solar system. The tithi Pausha śu. di. 4 commenced 12 hours after mean sunrise on Tuesday as stated here, the corresponding date of the Christian era being the 30th November A.D. 1182. [4] The Uttarāyaṇa or Makara-Saṅkrānti, however, occurred 11 h. 20 m. some days later on the 25th December A.D.1182. The date is thus irregular in some respects. [5]

.. As for the localities mentioned in the present inscription, Paṇaturage is, as shown by Dikshit, probably identical with Paṇutre, 14 miles S.W.W. of Kolhāpur, and Seleyavāḍa may be Sheloshī, 7 ½ miles from it, both on the bank of the river Dhāmnī. From the description in the present inscription the village Paṇḍarana seems to have been in the vicinity of Paṇutarage, but no such place can now be traced in the neighbourhood of Paṇutre. The other places have already been identified.

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[1]This biruda appears in the records of the Śilāhāras of North Koṅkaṇ. The Śilāhāras of Kolhāpur may have assumed it after Vijayāditya rendered assistance to Aparāditya I of North Koṅkaṇ.
[2] In other records a similar biruda Kaliyuga-Vikramāditya is used.
[3] He is probably the father of Lakshmīdharabhaṭṭa mentioned in the following stone inscription (No. 59) of Bhōja II, dated Śaka 1112.
[4] Dikshit, referring to Indian Ephemeris, Vol. III, p. 367, gives the corresponding date as 1st December A.D. 1182, but week-day then was Wednesday, not Tuesday as stated in the present inscription. Dikshit has omitted Tuesday in stating the date.
[5] Dikshit has not noticed this irregularity.
[6] From an estampage supplied by the Chief Epigraphist for India.
[7] Expressed by a symbol.
[8] Metre of verses 1-3 : Anushṭubh.
[9] The aksharas effaced in the original have been restored from other Silaharas records especially the Kaseli grant (No. 60), below.