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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI The object of the inscription is to record that during the victorious reign of the illustrious Gayākarnadēva, while the Mahāsāmatādhipati Gōlhandēva of the Rāshtrakūta family was flourishing, one Mahābhōja (?), the son of Sādhu Sarvadhara, who had been favoured by the illustrious Māghavanandi, the foremost of logicians, erected the temple of Śāntinātha. We are further told that the white canopy over it was built by a Sūtradhāra.1 The image of Śāntinātha was consecrated by the Āchārya Subhadra, who belonged to the line of the Dēśī gana2 in the Āmnāya of the Chandrakara Āchācrya.3 Cunningham read the date in the first line, as samvat 10.. Phālguna badi 9 sōmē. Dr. Bhandarkar has, on the other hand, remarked that ‘the date of the inscription is too indistinct to be read.’ Many of the signs in the first line, where Cunningham read the date are now broken away. It is not, therefore, possible to verify his reading completely. But the extant aksharas seem to read [va] di 9 Bhaumē (not Sōmē). Even in Cunningham’s time all the figures of the year were not preserved. What he took to be the figure I appears to be the remnant of some akshara like pa or sa. Again, Cunningham’s reading of the first two figures, if correct, would relegate the present record to the end of the tenth or the first half of the eleventh century A.C.; for samvat 10. . would have to be referred to the Vikrama era. But from the Tewar inscription4 dated K. 902 we know that Gayākarna flourished in the first half of the twelfth century A.C. The first two figures of the date, if it was recorded in the Vikrama era, must, therefore, have been either 11 or 12.
1 His name appears to be Śresţhī. CORPUS INCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM BAHURIBAND STATUE INCRIPTION OF GAYAKARNA
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