Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s1.t2.4

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¹ The defeat of Harshavarddhana, the king of Kanoj, by a Cālukya which is satisfactorily established by Cunningham ("Reports" i., pp. 280-282), shows the rapid growth in power of the Cālukyas of Kalyāṇapura. This defeat was not, however, by Vikramāditya (as Genl. Cunningham states) but by Satyāçraya, his father, as is proved by several inscriptions. One (in possession of a Jain ācārya at Hyderabad) has: Çri-Pulakeçimahārājasya prapautraḥ....Çri-Kīrtivarmapṛi(thi)vīvallabhamahārājasya pautraḥ samarasamsaktasakalottarāpatheçvaraÇri-Harshavarddhanaparāja(yopala)bdhaparameçvarāparanāmadheyasya Satyāçrayaçripṛithivīvallabha..sya priyatanayaḥ etc. Another (photographed in the Mysore collection) has *nearly* the same phrase: ....Çri-Harshavarddhanaparājayopalabdhaparameçvarāparanāmadheyaḥ Satyāçrayaçripṛithivīvallabhamahādhirājaparameçvaras etc. This defeat must be put near the end of the 6th or beginning of the 7th century. The genealogy of the dynasty of these kings was first given by Sir W. Elliot in the *London Asiatic Society's Journal*; and his paper was afterwards reprinted with corrections in the *Madras Journal* (vol. vii., pp. 193-211). With a few additional corrections required by inscriptions since discovered, and some of which were pointed out by Lassen (I., A. K. iv.), also omitting the mythical beginnings of the dynasty, the table is as follows:—
1) A grant of 1086-7 A. D. (referred to as E on p. 21, n.) traces the Cālukya family to the Somavamça through a number of mythological personages and kings of Ayodhyā to a Vijayāditya who: vijigīshayā Daxiṇāpatham gatvā Trilocanapallavam adhixipya daivadurīhaya lokāmttaram agamat. Tasmin samkule purohitena vṛiddhāmātyaiç ca sārddham anta(r)vva(tī pa)tnī tasya Mahājavamuṛilemunāmāgrahāram upagamya tadvāstavyena Vishṇubhaṭṭasomayājinā duhitṛinirvviçesham abhiraxitā satī Vishṇuvarddhanan namdanam asūta; sā ca tasya kumārakasya k(ā)lakramopetāni karmāni k(ā)rayitvā tam avarddhayat; sa ca mātrā viditavṛittānto niggitya (? nirgatya) Calukyagirau Namdābhagavatīm Gaurīm ārādhya Kumāranārāyaṇamātṛigaṇāmç ca samttarpya çvet(a)tapatraikaçamkhapañcamahāçabdādīni kulakramāgatāni nix(i)ptāni ******** samādāya Kadambagaṅgādibhūmipān nirjitya SetuNarmadāmadhyam daxiṇāpathan pālayām āsa. Tasya Siddijayādityo Vishṇuvarddhanabhūpatiḥ Pallavānvayajātāyā Mahādevyāç ca nandanaḥ. | tatsutaḥ Pulakeçivallabhaḥ; tatputraḥ Kīrttivarmmā. Tasya tanayaḥ .... Satyāçrayavallabhendrasya bhrātā Kubjavishṇuvarddhano dvādaça varshāṇi Veṅgīdeçam apālayat etc.
2) This date is due to Profr. Eggeling.
3) See Mr. Fleet's remarks *Indian Antiquary*, vi. p. 73.