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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
..Ballala, who is named after Bhōja in several records of the Kolhāpur Śilāhāras, was his younger brother. In the Honnur inscription[1] he is named as Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara. That record is not dated, but since his successor Gaṇḍaraditya is known to have been ruling in Śaka 1032 (A.D. 1110), he seems to have had a very short reign (c. A.D. 1100-1108). .. In the Honnur inscription Gaṇḍarāditya is associated with his elder brother Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Ballāla, but he bears no title therein. He is known from several grants ranging in dates from A.D. 1110 to A.D. 1135. He claims to be the sole ruler of the Miriñja-dēśa together with the seven khollas and also the country of Kōṅkaṇa. The latter appears to be South Koṅkaṇ, which, as we have seen, was under the rule of this family since its conquest by the Later Chālukya king Jayasiṁha. He may have been governing it as a feudatory of Vikramāditya VI; for the latter is described as having the seven Kōṅkaṇas as his bracelets.[2]
.. Gaṇḍarāditya fed a lakh of Brāhmaṇas at the holy place of Prayāga as stated in his Tāḷale plates.[3] This place must be identified not with Allahabad but with the one still known as Prayāga near the confluence of the Kāsārī and the Kumbhī with the Pañchagaṅgā, a few miles from Kolhāpur. Gaṇḍarāditya constructed a temple of Jina named Tribhuvanatilaka evidently after himself at Ājurikā,[4] modern Ājre, the chief town of the Ājre mahāl of the Kolhāpur District. Another Jaina temple called Rūpanārāyaṇa was erected by his Sāmanta Nimbarasa[5] and named after him at Kolhāpur; for he bore the biruda Rupanārāyaṇa. The priests of this temple are mentioned in some inscriptions[6] of the Kolhāpur Śilāhāras. Gaṇḍarāditya constructed a tank which he named Gaṇḍasamudra near the village of Irukuḍi. He built the temples of all the three religions, Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina, on its bank.[7] This reference to a Buddhist temple is interesting as Buddhism had by this time all but disappeared from the Deccan. in another grant[8] the king, in response to the request of his minister Mailapaiya, donated land for the temple of the god Khēḍāditya of Brahmapurī, a suburb of Kolhāpur, and for the maintenance and residence of eight Brāhmaṇas. The grant is dated Śaka 1048 (A.D. 1126) on the occasion of the Karkaṭa saṅkrānti. He also seems to have commenced the construction of the magnificent temple of Kōppēśvara at Khidrāpur. It could not be completed even in the reigns of his two successors. Gaṇḍarāditya had a queen of the Jaina faith, viz. Karṇādēvī.[9] Nāgaladēvī mentioned in two inscriptions of his reign was probably his mother. She also belonged to the Jaina faith. ..
As we have seen, Gaṇḍarāditya was ruling over South Koṅkaṇ. A record[10] of the time
of Bhōja II states that he had reinstated the deposed ruler of Sthānaka or Ṭhāṇā. This must
have been at the beginning of the reign of Aparāditya I, when the Kadamba king Jayakѐśin
II invaded North Koṅkaṇ, killed the Silahara king Anantapala and annexed North Koṅkaṇ
[1] No. 44.
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