Epigraphia Indica Vol 22

SR No.: 032576
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1933
Total Pages: 408
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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JAINAD STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE PARAMARA JAGADDEVA.
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attack him, so that even the Mälava erkperor, Jagaddēva, whose proud elephant he made to scream out, said "Well done horseman'; to which he replied, 'I am not only a horseman, I am Vira-Ballāla', and by his slaughter excited the astonishment of the world." The SravanaBelgola scription.dated 1159 A.D., states that "Vishnu, powerful like Yama, striking with his hand, drank up all at once the rolling ocean, the army of the Malava king, Jagaddēva, and others sent by the emperor (i.e., Vikramaditya VI)". The Belur Taluk inscription, dated 1117 A.D., registers the fact that "in Dörasamudra-they (Vishnu, and Balläła) defeated the army of Jagaddēva, painted the goddess of Victory with the blood of his elephants for vermilion, and captured his treasury together with the central ornament of his necklace." The Hoysala Narasimha I's inscription, dated 1164 A.D., records that the three brothers, Ballala, Vishņu, and Udayaditya destroyed the army of Jagaddēva in Dorasamudra. The earliest known date of the records containing the report of Jagaddēva's defeat is 1100 A.D.
Jagaddēva seems to have later on entered into a quarrel with Vikramaditya, as the result of which the latter had to surrender the northern part of his dominion to the Paramāras. A pillar bearing an inscription", dated 1887 A D., of the reign of Vikraināditya VI, is lying in the village of Sitabaldi, 6 miles to the east of the city of Nagpur. Though there is gothing in the inscription to indicate that the kingdom of the Chālukyas extended up to Nāgpur in that period, the existence of the pillar there strongly suggests to that effect. If this proves to be true, Jainad, where the new inscription was discovered, was evidently within the dominion of the Chalukyas about that time. Jsinad is situated few miles south of the Penganga. As the stone, bearing the inscription, is an ordinary slab, there is less likelihood of its being carried there from a great distance. In all probability, it belonged to one of the temples in that locality. If my suggestion proves to be true, it is to be maintained that the Paramåra kingdom extended at least up to the Adilābād District in the latter part of the 11th century. The Nägpur stone inscription, dated 1104 A.D., likewise suggests that Vikramaditye VI lost his-hold over-that part of the country sometime before that time. This new acquisition of territories was, in all likelihood, made by Jagaddēva.
Jagaddēva was a handsome person. The Paramāra Arjunavarman, in his Rasikasamjivini," states that his predecessor, Jagaddēva, was very graceful, and that his beauty is described by Naohirāja. Samalavarman, the king of east Bengal, married Mālevyadere, the daughter of Jagaddēva.
The object of the inscription is to record that Padmavati, the wife of Lolārka, erected the temple of Nimbāditya, in the city, the name of which is not mentioned. Lõlārka was the minister of Jagaddēva, and appears to have been enjaying that position since the time of Udayāditya. His father was Gunataja, and his grund-father was Mdhēndu whose wife was Sungā. All of them belonged to the Dāhima family. The poet Asvatthama composed the verses of the inscription.
TEXT. Metres : v. 1, 20, Anushfubh; vv. 2, 3, 7-12, 14, 15, 18, Sārdülavikridita; vv. 4, 16, 17, 19, Sragdharā; vv. 5, 6, Upajati and v. 13, Mandākrāntā.] 1ों नमः सूर्याय । पकालथि रवबारे निम्बब)पुष्पीहमस्य । प्रत्ययं
पूरयन्भानुर्बिरत्यबमुफमस्वतां ॥१॥ तं वन्देमहि वारुणीजल* Tid., vol. II, Ina, at Sravana Betgols, No. 349, p. 168. • Ibid., Vol. V, BI., No. 58.
Ibid., Vol. IV, Ng., No. 30. * Ibid., Vol. V, Ak., No. 34. [In this inscription Jagaddēva is not described as the king of Malaya.-Ed.] Abovy, Vol. UI, P-304 Aboro Yol. II, p. 185.
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J. 4. 8. B., Vol. X, p. 127.