BOMBAY-KARNATAKA
INSCRIPTIONS
VOLUME
XI - Part I
THE
RASHTRAKUTAS
Krishna
III | Krishna
II | Govinda
IV | Kottigadeva
No.
36
(B.K.
No. 175 of 1926-27)
Ron,
Ron Taluk, Dharwar District
On
A Hero-Stone Lying In The Taluk Office
The
record refers itself to the reign of Kannaradeva (i.e., Krishna
III), and introduces his brother-in-law (bhava) Mahamandalika
Permadi Butarya as governing the Gangavadi Ninety-six Thousand,
Belvola Three Hundred and Puligere Three Hundred provinces in Saka
864 corresponding to the cyclic year Subhakrit.
It commemorates the death of one Pampayya of the Vaji family
and the [K]aundilya (Kaundinya)-gotra in a fight with
Butayya-Permadi who had attacked Rona on Sunday the 6th
day of the bright half of Vaisakha (=24th April A.D.
942).
It
is worth noting that Butarya, i.e., the Western Ganga prince Butuga
II was already in possession of Belvola Three Hundred and Purigere
Three Hundred in A.D. 942, althought it is stated in the Atakur
inscription (Ep. Ind.Vol. VI, p. 50) that these privinces
were given to him by Krishna II in A.D. 949-50 in recognit9on of his
having killed the Chola prince Rajaditya.
No.
37
(B.K.
No. 126 of 1926-27)
Kurtakoti,
Gadag Taluk, Dharwar District
On
A Slab Set Up In The Virabhadra Temple
The
inscription belongs to the reign of Akalavarsha kannaradeva (i.e.,
Krishna III). and
registers gifts of land made to the temple of Mulasthadnadeva and
Adityadeva of Kuritakunte by Lokayya while Nanniya-Ganga Butuga (II)
was governing the Belvola Three Hundred and Purigere Three Hundred
provinces. The epigraph
is dated Saka 868, Parabhava, Karttika, su. 5, Sunday.
The tithi quoted fell, according to L.D.S. Pillai’s Ephemeris,
on Saturday, 3rd October, A.D. 946.
We have seen above (No 36) that this Ganga prince was ruling
over the two provinces in A.D. 942.
No.
38
(B.K.
No. 182 of 1926-27)
Naregal,
Ron Taluk, Dharwar District
On
A Stone Set Up In Front Of The Village-Chavadi
The
inscription refers itself to the reign of Akalavarsha
Krishnarajadeva (i.e., Krishna III) and introduces his Ganga
subordinate Butayya-Permadi who was governing the Gangavadi
Ninety-six Thousand extending as fas as Peldore (i.e., ‘the great
river’). It registers
the gift of a tank made to the dana-sale (charity house)
attached to the basadi constructed by Padmabbarasi, a qeen of
Butayya, by Na[ma]-yara Marasinghayya, on Sunday, Pausha, su. 10,
Uttarayana-sankranti of the cyclic year Sadharana failing in Saka
873. The gift was
entrusted to Gunachandra-Pandita, a pupil of Viranandi-Pandita who
was a disciple of Mahendra-Pandita of the Kondakundanvaya and
Desiga-gana. The (Body
of the) Eighteen Members (Padinenbaru) and the (Body of the) Sixteen
Members (Padinaruvaru) were to protect the gift.
The
record reveals for the first time that Butuga II had a queen named
Padmabarasi besides the Rashtrakuta princess Revakanimmadi.
By
the sankranti, the date of the record would correspond to Monday,
December 23, A.D. 950.
No.
39
(B.K.
No. 72 of 1926-27)
Soratur,
Gadag Taluk, Dharwar District
On
A Slab Set Up In Front Of The Virabhadra Temple
This
is an inscription of Akalavarsha Kannaradeva who bears the birudas
Anevedanga, Madagajmalla and Chalakenallata.
It states that while his body-guard (amgaraka)
Ruddapayya was administering Saratavura, Ruddapayya’s Perggade Achapayya
and Gamunda Sami Kalteyamma granted in the presence of the
Fifty Mahajanas and the Urodeya Pittayya, land and
money for vidya-dana and for the expense of the matha attached
to the temple there.
The
gift was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, on Sunday,
Margasira, su. 15 of Saka 873 corresponding to the cyclic year
Virodhi[krit*] (=16th November A.D. 951) and entrusted to
the care of Bhimarasi-Bhatara.
No.
40
(B.K.
No. 113 of 1929-30)
Narsalgi,
Bagevadi Taluk, Bijapur District
On
A Slab Built Into The Front Wall Of The Hanuman Temple
This
damaged inscription refers itself to the reign of Akalavarshadeva
(i.e., Krishna III) and is dated in Saka 886, Raktakshin, halguna,
solar eclipse (=Monday, 6th March, A.D. 965).
It mentions the Mahasamantadhipati Ahavamalla Tailaparasa of
the Satyasraya family as a subordinate of the king, governing
Tarddavadi One Thousand as anumgajivita.
He is also given the biruda Chalukya-Rama.
A subordinate of his, claiming descent from the Khachara-kula is mentioned but
his name is unfortunately lost.
The record seems to register a gift of taxes to some god at
Narasalage included in the Murttage Thirty division.
This
is the first known inscrption that establishes the political
relationship of the Rashtrakutas and the Western Chalukyas of
kalyani before the latter obtained sovereigny in A.D. 973.
