North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR

..ing to the southern luni-solar system, was Sādhāraṇa. The tithi, according to Kielhorn’s calculations, ended 19 h. 7 m. after mean sunrise and the Uttarāyaṇa of Makara Saṅkrānti occurred 14 h. 2 m. after mean sunrise on that day.

..The second donation recorded in the present inscription is that made by Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, son of the aforementioned Lōkaṇa Nāyaka. It consisted of some khaddiya (land) made available by the Mahājanas of the agrahāra village Pauva in the Tāluragekholla in the form of half a vṛitti consisting of one largest (uttama) nivartana and one smallest (kanishṭha) nivartana, together with half a first-rate (uttama) house and one middle-sized (madhyama) house and the surrounding khadavalaka (courtyard) donated to the aforementioned Brāhmaṇas at the charitable feeding house (sattra) established by his mother. [1] This gift was made in the expired Śaka year 1114, when the cyclic year Paridhāvin was current, on Friday, the first tithi of Āśvina. This date does not work out satisfactorily. The cyclic year for the expired Śaka year 1114 was, no doubt, Paridhāvin according to the Southern luni-solar system, but the tithi Āśvina śu. di. 1, evidently the first day of Mahālakshmī’s navarātra, fell on Wednesday, the 9th September A.D. 1192, not on Friday as required. In the preceding Śaka year (1113) the said tithi commenced on Friday (the 20th September A.D. 1191), but the cyclic year was Virōdhakṛit, not Paridhāvin as required. The date is thus irregular in some respect.

.. The third donation made by the same Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka consisted of some land in a village, the name of which is now illegible, which he had purchased out of the vṛitti of Māyiṁkauvā, the daughter’s daughter of Sōmēśvarabhaṭta of the Sāmavēda. The object of the donation was to provide for the food of the students studying at a school established for the study of the Vēdas. It is dated (without the mention of the Śaka year) on Friday, the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the cyclic year Pramādin. This cyclic year, according to the southern luni-solar system, corresponds to Śaka 1115. According to Pillai’s Indian Ephemeris (Vol. III, p. 390), the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna fell on Sunday, the 27th February A.D. 1194, not on Friday as stated. This date also is, therefore irregular. [2]

.. As for the localities mentioned in the present inscription, Kielhorn suggested the identification of Tīravāḍabīḍa with Bīḍa, 71/2 miles south-west of Kolhāpur. The place is more likely to be identical with Tiravaḍe in the Bāvaḍā mahāla of the Kolhāpur District. Kopparavāḍa may be modern Koparḍe, about seven miles west of Kolhāpur. It lies on the way to Panhāḷā (Pannālē-durga) as stated in the present inscription. The agrahāra village Pauva may be modern Pōhḷē in the Panhāḷā mahāla, about 12 miles north of Kolhāpur. Tāluragekholla in which it was situated may correspond to modern Tāraḷe in the adjoining Hātakaṇagale tālukā. It lies about two miles east of Hātakaṇagale. The fort of Pranālaka or Pannāle is, no doubt, the modern fort of Panhāḷā, about 11 miles north-west of Kolhapur.

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[1]The reading svamātuḥ Pomakauvāyāh appear clear from Graham’s facsimile.
[2] Kielhorn states that the tithi fell on Friday, the 28th February A.D. 1194, and was thus regular. (See. Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 215 and Inscriptions of Southern India, p. 58). This is incorrect. The week-day corres- ponding to the 28th February A.D. 1194 was Monday, not Friday. The tithi current on it was the sixth of the bright fortnight of Phālguna, Śaka saṁvat 1115.
[3] From an estampage supplied by the Chief Epigraphist for India.
[4] Originally देवो, corrected into देव:.