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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
Koṅkaṇ where the latter was ruling. While executing the grant, Vikramāditya calls himself Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara, though his father continued to reign till A.D. 1184.[1] ..It is not known if Vkramāditya sat on the throne at Sthānaka after his father’s death; for no other record of his reign has yet been discovered. Perhaps, he was a younger son of his father, Haripāladēva being his elder brother. Aparāditya may have intended to give North Koṅkaṇ to Haripāladēva and South Koṅkaṇ to Vikramāditya to prevent dissensions in the family after his death. Several inscriptions[2] of Haripāladēva dated Śaka 1070, 1071, 1072, 1075, and 1076 have been discovered in the Ṭhāṇā District. So there is no doubt that he was ruling in North Koṅkaṇ from c. A.D. 1148 to A.D. 1155. From his reign onward we get only stone inscriptions and they are mostly written in a mixed language of Sanskrit and Marāṭhī. As the inscriptions of Haripāladēva do not give any genealogy, it is not possible to say how he was related to Aparāditya, but, for the reasons stated above, he was probably his elder son. These inscriptions record the gifts made by ministers, private individuals and village assemblies. ..Mallikārjuna, who succeeded Haripāladēva,[3] is known from two inscriptions −one found at Chipḷuṇ[4] in the Ratnāgiri District and the other at Bassein[5] in the Ṭhāṇā District. The former is dated in Śaka 1078 (A.D. 1156) and records the appointment of Suprayā as Daṇḍādhipati (Military Officer) in charge of the country of Pānālaka. This inscription shows that a part of South Koṅkaṇ continued under the rule of the Northern Śilāhāras. Probably, Vikramāditya, who was ruling over it before, died sonless, and so it came under the rule of the Sthānaka branch. Pānālaka is the same as Praṇāla mentioned before. The Bassein inscription is dated in Śaka 1083 (A.D. 1162). It records the jīrṇōddhāra (repairs) of a temple of Śiva and the gift of a garden in Lōṇavāṭaka (modern Lonāḍ in the Bhivaṇḍī tālukā ) to Lakhaṇa Upādhyāya.
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In the Kumārapālacharita[6] Hēmachandra gives a graphic account of Mallikārjuna’s
battle with the forces sent by the Chaulukya king Kumārapāla. Mērutuṅga’s account of the
causes that led to this fight and the Progress of it seems fanciful.[7] Kumārapāla is said to have
felt offended by the title Rājapitāmaha assumed by Mallikārjuna[8], and sent an army under
his general Ambaḍa to invade his territory. Ambaḍa was defeated by Mallikārjuna and, feeling
disconsolate, he repaired to Kṛishṇagiri (Kānherī), where he passed some days wearing black
clothing. Coming to know of it, Kumārapāla sent heavy reinforcements, which enabled
Ambaḍa to inflict a disastrous defeat on Mallikārjuna. He cut off his head, mounting daringly
the elephant he was riding. He then presented the cut off head, mounted in gold, of the
[1] See No. 62.
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