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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
of Kolhāpur. He made some grants[1] for the worship and naivēdya of the goddess and also for the worship of the god Umā-Mahēśvara installed in a maṭha at Kolhāpur. The same record registers grants made to some Brāhmaṇas who had hailed from Karahāṭa and bore the family name of Ghaisāsa.[2] They correspond to the Karhāḍe Brāhmaṇas of the present day. The inscription also mentions some Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas,[3] for whose maintenance some grants were made by the king. .. Some Śilāhāra kings of the Kolhāpur line are known for their building activities. We have already referred to the temples constructed by Gaṇḍarāditya at Irukuḍī and Ājurikā. He commenced the construction of the temple of Kōppēśvara at Khidrāpur. It continued during the reigns of Vijayāditya and Bhōja II. The structure was incomplete when the Yādava king Siṅghaṇa annexed the Śilāhāra kingdom to his own dominion, and it has since then remained in the same condition. The Gūḍha-maṇḍapa of the temple has no spire and the Raṅgamaṇḍapa in front of it is still without even its ceiling.
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Like their brethren of North Koṅkaṇ, the Śilāhāras of Kolhāpur extended their patronage to learned men. One of these was Sōmadēva, the author of the Śabdārṇava-chandrikā, a work
of the Jainēndra Vyākaraṇa.[4] Karṇapārya, the author of the Kannaḍa work Nēminātha
purāṇa, was patronised by Lakshmīdhara, a minister of Vijayaditya.
[1] Nos. 58 and 59.
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