Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c20.46

c20.46

Paṇḍit Bhagvânlâl has published a stone-inscrip tion³⁰ existing in a ruined temple at Añjanerî near Nâsik, in which a chief of the Yâdava family, named Seunadeva, is represented to have made some grant in the S'aka year 1063³¹ to a Jaina temple From the account given above, it will be seen that there were two princes only of the name of Seuṇa in the Yâdava family, and that the later of the two was an ally of Vikramâditya II , and consequently reigned about the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century of the S'aka [104] era The Seunadeva of the Añjanerî inscription therefore can not be this individual, and no other prince of that name is mentioned in the Vratakhaṇḍa Besides Seuṇadeva calls himself pointedly a *Mahâsâmanta* or chief only, while about 1063 S'aka, when the Châlukya power had begun to decline, it does not appear likely that the Yâdava of Seuṇadeśa should give themselves such an inferior title It therefore appears to me that the Seuṇadeva of Añjanerî belonged to a minor branch of the Yâdava family dependent on the main branch, and that the branch ruled over a small district of which Añjanerî was the chief city