Indian Antiquary Vol 01

SR No.: 032493
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY 3, 1872.
baneshwar, if they could be rightly interpreted, Kadambas. From No. 8, we have the following would be historically most important. The Khan- list of kings - dagiri caves bear ample indicia of a Buddhist origin. Jayanta or Trilochanakádamba. But Mr. Locke considers there is also a Greek ele- An interval during which eighteen as'vamedhas ment plainly perceptible in the ornament; I do not were performed by his descendants. now refer to the dress worn by the booted figure 1. Shashthadeva. of the Râni's. cave, which, notwithstanding its 2. Jayakes'i I. (his son) foreign appearance, Babu Rajendral&la supposes to 3. Vijayaditya I. (his son.) be indigenous to this country,--I speak of the con- 4. Jayakes'i II. (his son) md. to Mailamahadevi. ventional ornament on the mouldings and friezes. 5. Permádi or Sivachitta (his son.) And then, if we pass to Bhubaneshwar, we find 6. Vijayaditya II or Vikramárka (his brother) ourselves in the presence of a type of Hindu art,
md. to Pattamabadeví, wh'ch is, at any rate in this sense, archaic, namely, 7. Jayakes'i III. (his son.) that the forms assumed by the temples were deve- The inscription records & grant made by Jayakes'i loped in the infancy of structural resource. The III. in the year of the Kaliyuga 4288 (A.D. 1187-8). lofty pyramidal tower, gradually rounded in at the
The first in the list, Jayanta or Trilocha natop, and surmounted by a lotus-shaped crown, is kada mba, born from the drops of sweat which not at first sight, I think, pleasing to the eye; but flowed from Siva's forehead to the root of the it is easy to understand how it might have grown Kadamba tree, when he conquered the denon out of the exigencies under which the builder work- Tripura,' seems to be a half mythical personage. ed. Without the aid of cement, and in the absence He is probably intended for the saine as Trinetraof any knowledge of the arch, the horizontal sec- kadamba, who is said to have reigned about K. Y tion which could be effectually covered over by 3210 (A.D. 109, or according to Buchanan, 161-2). overlapping slabs of stone would necessarily be The princess Mailala, whom Jayakes'i II. married, sinall, and therefore it would be by height alone is described as the younger sister of Soma, and is that the designer could give any imposing character given in marriage to king Permádi; and as Jayakes'i to his buildings. In those cases where the wealth of I. is spoken of as having formed friendship with the decorative ornament is extreme, & close examina
Chalukya and Chola kings, this Permadi is evidenttion shows that, after all, the whole is little more ly indentical with Vikramaditya II. or Perinadi than repetition on repetition of certain comparative- Råya of the Chalukya dynasty, whose date Mr. ly few forms, examples of each of which appear on Elliott gives as Saka 998-1049 (A.D. 1076-1127) almost every temple.-From the President's Address, which corresponds very well with the position ocProc. As. Soc. Beng. Feb. 1872.
cupied by Jayakes'i II in this list, and who was suc
ceeded by bis son Somes'wara Deva III. There is also “ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal
an inscription at Halsi, dated K.Y. 4270, which agrees
with No. 8 in giving Jayanta ae the first king. It Asiatic Society (No. 27), 1870."
then proceeds to Jayakes'i, who made GopakapatThis part of the Journal has just been published tana his capital. To him was born Vijayaditya, and contains (1) a paper "On some Sanskrit copper whose son was Jayas'iva or Jeyakes'i. Jayasiva plates found in Belgam Collectorate :" by J. F. married Mallalamahadevi, (?Mailalakádevi) and Flest, Cs. No. 9. of these plates is in possession begat Sivachitta and Vishnuchitta. Mallalai...of a weaver at Bagawadi in the Belgâm taluqa. hádevi is said to to be the daughter of Vikramárka It is in three sheets, written in a corrupted form of the ruby of the Chalukyas." the Káyastha character, and bears on the seal a From plates 1 to 7 is obtained this genealogy of figure of Hanamán. It gives us the names of the Kadamba Kings - three kings of the Yadava dynasty,-1. Kanhára, 1. Kákasthavarmá (plates 1, 2, 3, 4,) the son of Jaitugi, the son of Simhana. The date 2. Sántivarmá (his son ; 2, 3, 4). of the latter is given by Mr. Elliot as Saka 1132 to 3. Mriges'a (his son ; 2, 3, 4). 1170 ? with a note to the effect that the exact date 4. Ravivarmá (his son ; 2, 4, 5, 6); his brothers of his death has not been ascertained. His suc
Bhanuvarmá (4); and Sivaratba (7). cessor is Kandarae Deva, Kandaraya Deva, or! 5. Harivarmá (son of Ravivarmá ; 6). Kanera Deva, Saka 1170? to 1182, who is evident-! They belong to the Mánavyagotra and are the ly the same as Kanhâra of this inscription. The descendants of Háriti ; and Palás'iká appears to last inscription of Simhana that Mr. Elliot obtained have been, if not their capital, at least a place of bore the date of Saka 1169. In the present inscrip- importance. Palás'iká in No. 8 has been corrupted tion the name of Simhana's son is supplier as to Pulasika, and in the stone inscription has dwinJaitugi, and, the grant being made by Kanáradled to Palasi. Unfortunately we have no direct (his grandson) in Saka 1171. Mr. Elliot's conjecturo means of fixing the dates of these kings. Plate 1 as to the date of his aceession is thereby contirmed. tells us that Kákusthavarmá, Yuvaraja of the The remaining plates relate to the family of the Kadambas made a grant in the 80th year, possibly