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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
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..Kapardin I was succeeded by his son Pullaśakti, who has left a much abraded inscription
in one of the Kānherī caves[1]. It bore a date at the end, which has now been almost completely effaced. Kielhorn doubtfully read it as [Śaka] 765. This date appears quite plausible;
for Pullaśakti’s son and successor Kapardin II is known from two dates, Śaka 795 and 799.
..In the Kānherī cave inscription Pullaśakti is called Mahāsāmanta and Kōṅkaṇa-vallabha and is described as the lord of the whole Purī-Koṅkaṇa country which he had obtained by the
favour of Mahārājādhirāja, paramēśvara, Pṛithivīvallabha Amōghavarsha. The latter is the first
Rāshṭrakūṭa king of that name who ruled in c. A.D. 814-878. The inscription records the endow
ment of 120 drammas made by one Vishṇugupta for the repairs of the cave as well as for the
raiment and books of the monks dwelling in Kṛishṇagiri (Kānheri).
..Pullaśakti was succeeded by his son Kapardin II, who is called Laghu-Kapardin in the
records of his successors to distinguish him from his grandfather who bore the same name. He
seems to have come to the throne when quite young; for the Ṭhāṇā plates of Arikēsarin tell us
that though he was an infant, his enemies paid homage to him.[2] Two inscriptions[3] of his
reign dated in the Śaka years 775 (773) (A.D. 851 ) and 799 (A.D. 877-78) in the Kānherī caves
record permanent endowments of some drammas made by one Gōmin Avighnākara, who had
come there from the Gauḍa country, and one Vēva for the raiment etc. of the monks dwelling
in the Mahārāja Mahāvihāra at Kṛishṇagiri (Kānheri).
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Kapardin II was followed by his son Vappuvanna, about whom his successors’ records
give only conventional praise. In time the Saṁyāna-maṇḍala (comprising the territory
round modern Sanjān in the Surat District) was given in charge of an Arab feudatory named
Madhumati by the Rāshṭrakūṭa Emperor Kṛishṇa II.[4] His family ruled in this region for at
least three generations. A set of plates found at Chinchaṇī in the Ḍahāṇu tālukā of the Ṭhāṇā
District mentions Madhumati’s son Sahiyārahāra and grandson Sugatipa, who was then ruling.
Madhumati, Sahiyārahāra and Sugatipa are evidently Sanskritised names of Muhammad,
[1] No. 1.
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