The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.66

v2.c29.s2.66

The association of Yuvarāja with Śaiva ascetics is also revealed by a number of other records. An unpublished inscription, found at Malakāpuram, in the Madras Presidency, tells us that Yuvarāja gave 3 lakhs of villages as a *bhikṣā* to the Śaiva teacher Sadbhāvaśambhu of the Ḍāhala-*maṇḍala* situated between the Bhāgīrathī and the Narmadā.’¹ The Bilhari stone-inscription tells us that Yuvarāja had as his wife Nohalā, who traced her origin to the Caulukya lineage. She was the daughter of Avanivarman, who was the son of Sadhanva and grandson of Siṁhavarman.² Nohalā is said to have erected near the modern Bilhari a large temple of Śiva, which she endowed with the villages Dhaṅgaṭa-pāṭaka, Poṇḍī, Nāgabala, Khaila-pāṭaka, Viḍā, Sajjāhalī, and Goṣṭhapālī. She is also reported to have given the villages of Nipānīya, and Ambi-pāṭaka to the sage Iśvaraśiva, a disciple of Śabdaśiva, who again was a disciple of Pavanaśiva, ‘as a reward for his learning.’³