Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.24

c17.24

Pulakesi's second brother Jayasiṁha must have been his brother's viceroy in the district about Nâsik. For, in a copper-plate grant found in the Igatpurî *tâluka* of the district, Nâgavardhana, the son of Jayasiṁha, assigns the village of Balegrâma, which has been identified with the modern Belgâm Tarhâḻâ about twelve miles to the north-east of Igatpurî, for the worship of the god Kâpâlikesvara ²⁰ The district in which the village was situated is in the grant called Goparâshṭra Similarly, Pulakesi's eldest son Chandrâditya ruled over the province which contained the Sâvantvâḍî district In a copper-plate grant, Vijayabhaṭṭârikâ, the queen of Chandrâditya, who is styled Prithvivallabha and Mahârâja or great king, assigns to certain Brâhmans a field along with the adjoining *Khajjana* (modern Khâjana) or marshy land in the village of Kocharem situated on the coast about seven miles to the north of Vengurlem In another grant found at Nerur, she assigns a field in the fifth year of *svarâjya* or "one's own reign " Now the reign referred to by this expression must be her husband's, so spoken of to distinguish it from that of his brother Vikramâditya, the second son of Pulakesi, who succeeded his father at the chief seat of government Chandrâditya was a king, as the titles above given show, and it is proper that his crowned queen should speak of his reign as *svarâjya* or her reign It is not necessary that charities such as those recorded in these grants should, like political offices or rights, be conferred by the reigning prince alone The religious merit arising from them is sought [54] by women as much as by men, and hence a woman like Vijayabhaṭṭârikâ might, during the lifetime of her husband, give a field The fact of her doing so does not necessitate the supposition that she was a ruler or a regent when she made these grants, as has been thought She was simply the crowned queen of a reigning monarch at that time Another son of Pulakesi named Âdityavarman seems to have ruled over the district near the confluence of the Krishnâ and the Tungabhadrâ,²¹ as a copper-plate grant of his issued in the first year of his reign was found in the Karnul District An undated grant of Pulakesi found at Chiplun in Southern Konkan has recently been published In it he sanctions the grant of the village of Âmravâṭaka made by his maternal uncle Srivallabha Senânandarâja "the ornament" of the Sendraka race²² This appears to be a family of minor chiefs with whom the Châlukyas were connected A similar grant was made by the next king at the request of the Sendraka chief Devasakti²³ Inscriptions of Sendrakas are found in Gujarât also, where probably they went when the power of the Châlukyas was established in that province The name Sendraka is probably preserved in the modern Marâṭhâ name Sinde