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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
THE SILAHARAS OF SOUTH KONKAN
provinces. We have no further information about the rulers of this territory. It was evidently governed by some feudatory of the Early Chālukyas, perhaps by a Sēndraka chief ; for the home province of the Sēndrakas, the Sēndraka-vishaya, lay not far to the south. ..We have seen before that the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Dantidurga conquered North Koṅkaṇ. South Koṅkaṇ was added to the Rāshṭrakūṭa Empire in the reign of Dantidurga’s uncle and successor Kṛishṇa I. He placed Saṇaphulla, the founder of the Southern Śilāhāra family, in charge of the territory. The grants of his descendant Raṭṭarāja record with gratitude that Saṇaphulla, his ancestor, had the favour of Kṛishṇarāja.[1] This Kṛishṇarāja is none other than the Rāshṭrakūṭa Emperor Kṛishṇa I, who ruled from c. A.D. 758 to A.D. 773. That Saṇa- phulla, the founder of the family, flourished in this period can be inferred from the fact that he was the ninth ancestor of Raṭṭarāja, whose two known grants are dated in Śaka 930 and 932. .. Only three records of this family are known. The Paṭṭaṇakuḍi plates['2] issued by Avasara III are dated in Śaka 910. The other two grants,[3] dated in Śaka 930 and 932, were issued by his son Raṭṭarāja. These latter grants give the following genealogy of these southern Śilā- hāras. The Paṭṭaṇakudi plates show some discrepancies, which will be discussed below.
Saṇaphulla (c. A.D. 765-785). ..
As stated before, Saṇaphulla, the founder of the family, had the favour of the Rāshṭrakūṭa
Emperor Kṛishṇa I, whereby he acquired the territory between the Sahyādri mountain and
the sea-shore. His name is, however, omitted in the Paṭṭaṇakuḍi plates. He was ruling over the
Goā region, which is called Siṁhala in both the grants of Raṭṭarāja. Saṇaphulla’s capital is
not named in them, but it was probably at Chandrapura, modern Chāndor on the left bank
of the Parodā river, south of Goā. His son successor Dhammiyara is said to have founded
Balipattana on the sea-shore. This place is probably the same as Baladēvapaṭṭaṇa mentioned in
the Bṛihatsaṁhitā.[4] It may also be identical with Baltipatna mentioned by Ptolemy as situated
in Ariake Sadinon (Aparānta)[5]. In that case Dhammiyara may have only fortified it so as to
serve as a capital. This place may be the same as modern Khārepāṭaṇ, where one of the grants
of Raṭṭarāja was found.[6] Dhammiyara probably conquered some territory north of Goa
[1] No. 41, lines 23-24 ; No. 42, lines 9-10.
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