Epigraphia Indica Vol 18

SR No.: 032572
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H Krishna Shastri, Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1925
Total Pages: 494
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 26 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XVII.
The inscription supplies us with the following genealogy of Bluka.
Harichandra Rohilladdhi,
Brabrana. By his unnamed Brahmapa
By Bhadra, his wife
Kshatriya wife
The Pratihära Brahmaņas
Bhogabbats Kakka Rajjila Dadda
Narabhata. otherwise called Pellapelli.
Nagabhata m. Jajjikádėvi.
Bhoja
Tata Yasovardhana
Chanduka silaka
Jhota
Bhilladitya
Kakks
By queen Padmint
By queen Durlabhadevit
Banks
Kakkuka
The Gativ&lk Inscriptions of the Pratthara Kakkuka, dated in the Vikrams year 918,9 confirm the above genealogy, although in two cases the names are slightly modified such as Silluka for Siluka, and Bhilluks for Bhilladitya. As these inscriptions trace only the direct line of descent, they omit the names of the three brother of Rajjila and of the brother of Täta bat add a new name to the dynastic list, vie., that of Kakkaks, the son of Kakks and Durlabhadēvi. Kakkuks was thus a step-brother of Blaka.
The foundation of the dynasty is thus ascribed to a Brahmapa who married two wives from two different castes. This is very interesting from & social point of view. His sons are credited with the conquest of Mandavyapura (modern Mandor) where, as already observed the stone must have been originally put up. The grandson of one of them fized his capital at the city of Medantaka, which, a Munshi Deviprasad remarks, is possibly represented by the town Morta in Mürwärt. Shortly after this the military ardour of the family gives way to a
1 Tho wames Durlabhadôvi and Bakkaks are taken from the Chatiyald ingeriptione. • J. R. A. B. 1895, p. 618 f Bp. Ind. Vol. IX, pp. 977 4.
. (Hawwwpiti (III. 18) allows a Brihmapa to marry non-Brilmapa women--KA.] ..J. B. 4. 8. 1894, p. 8.