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RASHTRAKUTAS
interesting information that a stone set up in the time of Vaidumba-
Maharaja recording a gift of land yielding 80 khaṇḍugas (of paddy) made
to the temple of Samarthēśvara by Akālavarsha Chalake Nallāta Kannaradēva,
having been broken away, Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Bhima-Mahārāja of the Vaidumba
family, son of Ma[du[ka-Mahārāja renovated the temple and renewed the gift
by granting 200 matter of land on the old terms of tenure in Śaka 978, Durmati
(wrong for Durmukhi), corresponding to A.D. 1056, and had the gift now
engraved on stone. The chief Bhima-Mahārāja is stated to have belonged to
the lunar race (Somakula-tilaka). Akālavarsha Kannaradēva of the present
record who bore the biruda of Chalake-Nallāta was evidently Kṛishṇa III
(A.D. 939-967) whose Karhāḍ grant in A.D. 959 refer to his parcelling
out of his southern territory from his camp at Mēlpāḍi, among his subordinates
who had probably helped him in subjugating the Chōḷas in the South (Ep., Ind.,
Vol. IV, pp. 278 ff.). It is possible that Kṛishṇa III might have granted land
to the temple of Samarthēśvara on the eve of his expedition to the Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam i.e. about A.D. 948 after subduing the Vaidumbas on the way, or
about A.D. 959, when he repaired to the South to establish his rule in the Tamil
country. The Vaidumba relationship with the Rāshṭrakūtas prior to the time
of Kṛishṇa III is not disclosed by inscriptions, which only represent them as
the enemies of the Noḷambas and Gaṅgas. For an account of some earlier Vaidumba chiefs, attention may be drawn to Ep. Rep. for 1923, pp. 99-101.
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It is noteworthy that the present inscription does not refer to any suzera in
power. This is perhaps due to the unsettled political conditions of the time of
the record, i. e., Śaka 978, when the Chōḷas and the Chāḷukyas, the two
paramount powers of the south were engaged in constant warfare. We know
that on the decline of the Rāshtrakūtas, the Vaidumbas had been conquered
by the Chōḷa king Parāntaka I (S.I.I.,Vol. II, p. 3. 9) and were the feudatories
of Rājarāja I and Rājēndra-Chōḷa I(S.I.I., Vol. III, pp. 104 and 107) in Toṇḍai-
maṇḍalam. The chiefs Maduka-Mahārāja and his son Bhīma-Mahārāja are not
known hitherto from any other source.
TEXT (No. 323).
First side of slab.
Linga.
1 Svasti śrīy-Akālavarsha-
2 dēva prithvī-vallabha.
3 Mahārājādhirāja.
4 Paramēśvara Parama-
5 bhaṭṭārakam Chalako nallā
6 taṁ śrīmat-Kannaradēvaṁ
7 Samarthēśvarakke biṭṭe sthi-
8 ti Vaiduṁba-Mahā-
9 rājan-āḷuttire pū-
10 rvva-athitiy-eṇbhatta kha-
11 ṇḍuga malla[ḍi]koṇḍa-
12 n=appa[ḍe] pasuvaṁ
13 Brāhmaṇaran aḷida [pā]-
14 pam=eṁdilda pūrvva-
15 likhitada śilā-śasa-
16 naṁ bareda kall=oḍeye
17 Saka varsha 978-neya
18 Durmati-saṁvatsara-
37 purvva-sthitiyi-
38 n=nūru matter-ke-
39 yya dharmmamene-
40 thākramadim 2 pra-
41 tipāḷ sidaru
42 @ Bhīma-Mahā
43 ra(rā)jan=enisida Bhi
19 d=Āshāḍha śuddha 15 Bṛi-
20 haspativār d-aṁdu
21 su Ma[du]ka-Mahārā-
22 jana magma
23 @ samadhigata-paṁ-cha-
24 mahāśabda Mahā
25 maṇḍlēśvaran=anēka-sa-
26 mara-saṁghaṭṭaṇō-
27 palabdha vijayala-
28 kshmi samaliṁgita
29 viśāḷ – v k ha a haḷam Vai-
30 dumlā(ṁb-ā)bhā (bha)raṇan=aṇnana
31 baṁṭaṁ Kaliyuga Ramaṁ
32 chala[ma]tti-gaṇḍam Kaliga-
33 Triṇētraṁ śrimad-Bhima-
34 Mahārājaṁ Samarṭhi-
35 śvaradēvara dēvalāya
36 maṁ jirṇōddhāraṇe māḍi
44 ma-parākraman=i-
45 daṁ Samartthēśvaramaṁ
46 [Sō]makula-tila-
47 kan=ettisi bhūmi-
48 yan=ittalli sā-
49 sanaṁ barepis daṁ |
50 @ Ballahan=Akāḷava
Second side of slab.
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1 Bṛi is written wrongly with an i—sign and a ṛi—subscript as |
2 Read dharmmamaṁ yathakramadim.
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