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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
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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
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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN

..The object of the inscription seems to be that the temple[1] of Ambarnāth, which had been commenced by Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Chhittarājadēva was completed by some royal officers during the reign of Māṁvāṇirāja. In the introductory portion of the inscription are mentioned the following officers of Māṁvāṇirāja :‒the Mahāmātya Bimbapaiya; the Mahāpradhāna Nāgaṇaiya; the Lēkha-Sāndhivigrahika Vakavaiya; the Mahāsāndhivigrahika Jõgalaiya; the Senior Bhāṇḍāgarasēna (Treasury Officer) Mahādēvaiya, and the Junior Bhānḍāgārasēna Bhāilaiya. Among those who caused the temple to be completed at Pāṭapallī were the Chief Rājaguru Nābhāta, the Junior Rājaguru Śrī Vilaṇḍaśivabhaṭṭa and the Mahāsāmanta Śrī Tāsivarājala. Of these, the Māhamātya Nagāṇaiya is mentioned also in the Bhānḍup[2] and Berlin Museum plates of Chhittarāja and the Chinchaṇī plate[3] of his feudatory Chāmuṇḍarāja. Other officers do not figure in other contemporary records of the Śilāhāras.

..Pāṭapallī may have been the ancient name of the village where the temple of Ambarnāth is situated.

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[1] Dr. Bhau Daji took the expression to mean that the house of Chhittarājadēva was also constructed. Pandit Bhagvanlal thought that the temple of the god Chhittarāja was restored by Bhāgalaiya. He thought that the temple was probably built near that of Ambarnāth. He wrote, “But this part of the inscription being very imperfect except as regards the word Ambar Nath, it is very doubtful where its exact position was. The inscription does not, perhaps, refer to the temple of Ambar Nath in which it is placed, but to some other built in the neighbourhood, it being often the case that records of this kind are set up in some place where they would be conspicuous rather than on the building itself of which the account or notice is made. (J.B.B.R.A.S., Vol. XII, p. 331.) Bhagvanlal’s doubts are baseless. Besides, Chhittarājadēva does not mean ‘the god of Chhittarāja’, but ‘King Chhittarāja’.
[2] In this he is called Sarvādhikārin.
[3] Nos. 11 and 12. In these he is called Mahāpradhāna.
[4] From the eye-copies facing p. 219 in J.B.B.R.A.S., Vol. IX, and p. 334, ibid., Vol. XII.
[5] There must have been a symbol denoting सिद्धम्. but it is not noticed in the eye-copies.
[6] Read संवत्.
[7] Read मांवाणिराजदेवविजयराज्ये.
[8] Read श्रीबिंबपैय. Bhagvanlal reads [विंत]पैय. Perhaps विट्ठपैय– is the intended reading. विट्ठपैनायक is mentioned as महासान्धिविग्रहिक in line 8 of No. 16, above,
[9] Bhagvanlal read श्रीवकडैय–.
[10] This probably stands for द्वितीयस्थेपाढिसेन.
[11] Read –राज्ये वर्धमाने.
[12] Read भट्ट. The context also requires a reading like भट्ट.
[13] Bhagvanlal read राओले:, but the second akshara appears like ज in वज्त्रपंजरा–, in line 2.
[14] Read कारापकै:.

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