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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
MISCELLANEOUS to three pattikās. The donees were all residents of Jambūsara and students of the Kāņva śākhā of the Vājasanēya or White Yajurvēda. The purpose of the grant was to provide for the maintenance of bali, charu,vaiśvadēva, agnihōtra and other rites. The grant was made on the full-moon day of Vaiśākha in the year 394 of an unspecified era. Both the tithi and the year are expressed in words as well as numerical symbols. The Dūtaka was the Vāsāpaka Nanna. The character was written by the Mahāsandhivigrahādhikŗita Khuddasvāmin and incised by the Kshatriya Matrisimha. Most of the places mentioned in the present grant were identified by Dr. Būhler.1 Pariyaya, the granted village, is the modern Pariyā, seven miles east of Olpād, the headquarters of the Olpād tālukā of the Surat District. Sandhiyara, which lay to its west, is identical with Sandhiyar, two miles to the west of Pariyā. The vishaya of Kāśākula, in which these places were situated, must have comprised the country on the northern bank of the Tāpti. The same vishaya is mentioned in the Antrōli-Chhārōli plates, dated Śaka 679, of the Gujarat Rāshţrakūta prince Karkarāja.2 I identify Kāśākula with the modern Kachchōl, 4 miles to the south-west of Olpād. All these places are situated to the south of the Kīm which formed the northern boundary of the Chālukyan dominion in South Gujarat. Jambūsara still retains its ancient name unchanged, and lies about 30 m. to the north of Broach. Vijayapura, from which the plates purport to have been issued cannot be definitely identified. It may be either Vijāpur of the Panch Mahals, or the headquarters of the Vijāpur sub-division in the Baroda District.3 In either case it lies to the north of the Kīm and, therefore, outside the Chālukyan territory. We shall, therefore, have to suppose that Vijayarāja made the present grant in the course of a military campaign in the Gurjara kingdom
The date of the present inscription does not admit of verification in the absence
of the necessary details. The era to which it appertains has long been a matter of
controversy. Fleet at first referred the date to the Śaka era and took it as equivalent
to 472-3 A.C.4 He was inclined to identify Jayasimha who heads the genealogical
list in the present grant with Jayasimha I of the Early Chālukya Dynasty, and as the
Chālukyas in some of their later records represent themselves as having originally
come from the north, he came to the conclusion that Vijayarāja and his ancestors were
ruling in Gujarat until their power was subverted and their family expelled by the
Gurjara kings or by the kings of Valabhī. Later on, Fleet abandoned this theory and
proposed to identify5 the grandfather of Vijayarāja with Dharāśraya-Jayasimhavarman,
who is represented in the Nirpan plates6 as a younger brother of Pulakeśin II, or with
Dharāśraya-Jayasimhavarman who appears in the Navsāri7 and Balsār8 plates as a
younger brother of Vikramāditya I. Consequently, he referred the date of the present
grant to the Chēdi era and took it to correspond to 643 A.C. These identifications also
are not free from difficulties. For, as regards the first, Fleet himself has doubted
the genuineness of the Nirpan plates,9 from which alone we know of a brother of
Pulakeśin II, named Dharāśraya-Jayasimha. As regards the second, Pandit Bhagvanlal 1 Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 197.
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