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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
the second king of the family, is described as ruling over the whole Kōṅkaṇa headed by Purī. It is also supposed that when the Later Chālukya king Satyāśraya invaded the capital Sthānaka, the Śilāhāra king Aparājita fled from there to his second capital Purī.[1] These are not, however, very cogent reasons to prove that Purī continued to be capital of North Koṅkaṇ in the time of the Śilāhāras. In none of the records has it been mentioned as a place of royal residence. Sthānaka, on the other hand, has been so mentioned in several grants.[2] Purī-Kōṅkaṇa or Purīpṛabhṛiti-Kōṅkaṇa was used to designate North Koṅkaṇ as distinguished from South Koṅkaṅ which was known as Sapta-Kōṅkaṇa. Again, Ranna, while describing Satyāśraya’s invasion of the Śilāhāra king Aparājita’s kingdom, says only that Aparājita fled and entered the sea. Hemmed in by the ocean on one side and the sea of Satyāśraya’s army on the other, Aparājita trembled like an insect on a stick, both the ends of which are on fire. In this description there is no mention of Purī as the place where the Śilāhāra king sought shelter, when his capital (Sthānaka) was stormed by the enemy. Purī is, no doubt, sometimes mentioned in the grants[3] of the Northern Śilāhāras but only as the place from which some Brāhmaṇa donees had hailed. It was previously the capital of the Mauryas, but neither the Chālukyas nor the Śilāhāras who ruled in North Koṅkaṇ thereafter seem to have made it the seat of their government. It is noteworthy that the Kadambas refer to the contemporary Śilāhāra king as the ruler of Ṭhāṇēya,[4] not as that of Purī. Sthanaka seems, therefore, to have been their sole capital throughout this period.
.. The genealogy of this branch of the Śilāhāras may be stated as follows with approximate dates :-
[1] Ind., Ant., Vol. XL, p. 41.
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