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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MAY 3, 1872.
THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES.
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referring to some local era. If these Kadambas charged into the inner cistern in the courtyard should prove to be of a different line from the de- through a spout carved to represent a cow's head. scendants of Elliot's Mayúravarma, they may be Here the visitors bathe and perform all the conreferred to the period before the commencement of nected cerernonies. This temple was built by a the 10th century when the Chalukya dynasty Sattara Brahman family named Anagala. But the emerged from a temporary obscuration. If they first hereditary officer connected with its manageare to be placed before Mayúravarma, we have the ment is a Koli or rather a Koli family, from inscription of Ye-ur, translated by Mr. Elliot, which their connection with it, known as Gang á-putra, speaks of Kadamba kings anterior to the first Cha-| and as soon as a visitor has bathed all offerings he lukya king Jayasimha, as "the inimical Kádambas makes belong to these Kolis. What is offered lofty, powerful heroes to conquer, but not to be before bathing only is retained by the Brahmans, overcome," &c. Jayasimha, according to in- who, of course, press visitors to make offerings bescriptions, flourished about Saka 400, though fore bathing. At the temple of Mahá balesMr. Elliot prefers the date Saka 572. All wara also, the Kolis hold a hereditary position, tradition, too, points to Kadambas amongst the and the Gurav &s, who worship the Linga very earliest dynasties.
there, appear more closely allied to the hill tribes (2.) “The shrine of the river Krishna at the than to the inhabitants of the plains; they have no village of Mah&bales'vara ;" by R&o S&heb Vis'va- | connection however with the shrine of Krishna, nath Narayan Mandlik. "A stone temple built where the Kolis alone are the principal officers about 125 years ago over the source of the river in charge." The serpent," says the writer," is conKrishna is annually resorted to from all parts of nected with both these temples; and from the the neighbouring country, and every twelfth year, Linga temples he seems to be quite inseparable. when the planet Jupiter enters the sign of Virgo, In the latter, he is represented as being coiled pilgrims from all parts assemble to bathe in the round the Linge, while in the temple of the sacred waters of the Ganges, which river is be- Krishna, a living one is supposed to be guardlieved to make her appearance at this shrine at the ing its sources." The priests at both these shrines beginning of that year and to stay there for a are primarily the wild or at least Non-Vedic tribes. twelvemonth on a visit to her younger sister Some wear the Linga, and these do not taste food Krishn." The Teinple stands at the foot of the prepared by a Brahman; and Brahmans are hill facing the east. It measures 365 feet in length prohibited from becoming officiating priests at by 16, in depth, having an open courtyard in front Saiva temples, and cannot partake of offerings 62 ft. 3 in. long and 32 ft. 6 in. wide, in which are made there." There is no doubt that the people two cisterns with steps down to them. Along three do consider that there is something awkward, if sides of the courtyard is an open cloister 9 feet not obscene, in Linga worship. Because, so far deep supported in front on pillars 2 ft. square and as I am aware, only young girls who have not arabout 7 ft. 3 in. from centre to centre. The whole rived at maturity, and old ladies who have passed is enclosed by a wall 4 ft. thick, with an entrance the period of child-bearing, are permitted to enter door to the east, 4 ft. 9 in. wide, leading into the a Saiva temple. Others have to perform their court. Opposite the entrance and projecting into worship by deputy." the outer cistern is a pavilion for Nandi. The (3.) "Some further Inscriptions relating to the te ple is formed of two bays separated by four Kádainba Kings of Goa," by J. F. Fleet, C.S. A pillars and two corresponding pilasters with a large stone tablet in the temple of Narasimha at portico in front. Each bay is thus divided into Halsi records two grants made by Sivachitta and five squares, separately roofed in by domes inside, Vishnuchitta in the 23rd and 25th years of their joint but outside finished off in steps running longitu- reign in K. Y. 4270, and 4272 respectively. The dinally. The cloisters are similarly roofed. At the other inscriptions enable us to add a few naines to back of the temple and behind an inner wall 4ft. the list of the Kadamba family. The father of thick is the main source of the river. Through this Shasthadeva was Gúhalladeva; and the wife of wall, five holes are made to represent the rivers Sivachitta was Kamaladevi, daughter of KámaKrishna, Venná, Koyan á, Gáyatri, and bhúpa of the Somnavans'a and Chattaládevi of the Sávitri. The priests say that two others-the Pandya race, according to Nos. 1 and 3, though Bhagirathi and Sarasvati-also flow from Nos. 4 and 7 say that Kámabhupa was of the the sides of the other Gangás or rivers-the Súryavans'a and Chattaladevi of the Somakula. former once in 12 years, and the latter once in “The expression Ban a vásípuravará diswara 60 years, the holes through which they issue would appear to be only a hereditary title and not being at the N. and S. ends of the teinple res- meant to denote the actual residence of the Kadamba pectively. The water from these five drains flows Kings, as their real capital seems to have been, not into a channel in front, and is thence dis- Halsi, as I had supposed, but Goa, which is
BADAVâsi is in N. Lat. 14°. 85, E. Long. 75o; Ptolemy mentions it as Banauasi.--ED.