The Indian Analyst
 

North Indian Inscriptions

 

 

Contents

Introduction

Preface

Contents

List of Maps and Plates

Abbreviations

Additions and Corrections

Images

Introduction

Political History

The Early Silaharas

The Silaharas of North Konkan

The Silaharas of South Konkan

The Silaharas of Kolhapur

Administration

Religious Condition

Social Condition

Economic Condition

Literature

Architecture and Sculpture

Texts And Translations  

Inscriptions of the Silaharas of North Konkan

Inscriptions of The Silaharas of South Konkan

Inscriptions of The Silaharas of kolhapur

APPENDIX I  

Additional Inscriptions of the Silaharas

APPENDIX II  

A contemporary Yadava Inscription

Index

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Vol. 4 - 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 13

Volume 14

Volume 15

Volume 16

Volume 17

Volume 18

Volume 19

Volume 20

Volume 22
Part 1

Volume 22
Part 2

Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 26

Volume 27

Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4

Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

Epigraphia Indica Volume 7

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

Epigraphia Indica Volume 30

Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

Archaeological Links

Archaeological-Survey of India

Pudukkottai

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN

 

Name  of Brāhmaṇa His father’s name Gōtra  

Śākhā

7. Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa Gōvardhanabhaṭṭa Gārgya Ṛigvēda
8. Chakrapṇibhaṭṭa Drōṇabhaṭṭa    Kapi -do-
9. Mādhava Jyӧtirvid Dāmupaiya    Ātrēya -do-
10. Vāmbadēvabhaṭṭa Risiyappabhaṭṭa Ātrēya -do-
11. Vāvalaiya Dāmupaiya Kāśyapa -do-
12. Divākaraiya Siddhapaiya Bhāradvāja -do-
13. Janārdana Vēvala Shaḍaṅgavid Kāśyapa -do-
14. Vāmbaṇa Tīkapaiya Ātrēya -do-

..It seems that these fourteen donees were living at one place which is not named in the grant. The villages have not, therefore, been assigned to them severally. Their revenue in the form of dramas, the house-tax and the Kumāragadyānas derived from them were pooled together and distributed among the donees. Of these, Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita and Divākaraiya were given two shares each, and the rest one share each. It is noteworthy that one of the donees is described as Karṇāṭa, though the others also named with him but not so specified were living in the Kannaḍa speaking Karahāta The Brāhmaṇas of Karahāṭa correspond to the modern sub-sect of the Karhāḍē Brāhmaṇas in Mahārāshṭra and Kōṅkaṇa.

..The object of the grant was to provide for the observance, by these Brāhmaṇas, of their religious duties such as sacrificing for themselves and for others, the study and teaching of the sacred texts, the performance of the pañchamahāyajñas and the maintenance of their families.

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..While stating the boundaries of the villages in the Varēṭikā-vishaya the following particulars are given—The village Ēkasāla was bounded by the river Ūlasa on the east and by the river Pavahā on the south. The way to (the village) Siyali formed its western boundary. The village Bhūtavali is next named, but without any geographical place being mentioned as marking its boundary. The village Vaḍavalī was bounded on the north by the river Pavahā. The village Āsalagrāma had fields of Vaḍavalī and Vikarā on its eastern and northern boundaries. Another donated village, the name of which has now become illegible, had a cow-path of the village Ēkasāla and the river Pavahā as its eastern and southern boundary respectively. Other boundaries of the donated villages are also mentioned, but they are not useful for their identification. But the particulars given above of some boundaries of the donated villages show clearly that all of them were situated near each other and so their revenue and other income could be easily pooled together and distributed among the donees.

.. Besides, the present plates record the grants of the produce partly in the form of drammas and partly in food-grains from fields in two other sets of villages, not included in the Varetikā vishaya, to certain Brāhmanas individually. The villages were situated in the following two vishayas :

(A)Villages in the Abhyantara-shaṭshashṭi-vishaya
(i) Mūlanda and (ii) Vōriyalā
(B) Villages in the Śūrpāraka-Shatshashṭi-vishaya—
(i) Bṛihad-Aḍaṇikā (ii) Laghu-Aḍaṇikā (iii) Khānuvaḍā (iv) Pēḍhāla and
(v) Vīrāra.

..The village Khaṇḍivalīgrāma is mentioned as forming the western boundary of Laghu-Aḍaṅikā, and Uppalapallikā as a hamlet of the village Vīrāra. The fields are named generally after the kind of food-grains produced in them[1] such as Khairōṇḍhā-kshētra, Khāmuvaḍa-
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[1] A close examination of the present grant shows that in the case of a few fields only certain levies of rice are laid down, in addition to the amount in dramas. These fields are as follows : Kōṭṭhāravēḍhi-kshētra (lines 99-100) ; Vāḍa-kshētra (line 106) ; Nihura-kshētra (line 111) ; Vaulapoṇḍhā-kshētra (line 114) ; two Pōṇḍhā-

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