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Uifidu Inscriptions* 



[Jan. 



red in 515* In another place he is called "the disturber of the Rajahs 

 of Pandya, Chola, and Kerala, and of the Kadamba Kula," and is de- 

 scribed as making the Kanchipati (or lord of Kanchi, the capital of the 

 Cholas), kiss his lotos feet.f 



Yudha Malla, a title equivalent to that used by some of the later 

 princes, of Ahawa Malla, succeeded his father Vikram. His name oc- 

 curs in one of the Lakmeswara inscriptions, and appears to have been 

 Vinayaditya Satya Sri, " who churned the lords of Kanchi, and of Sin- 

 gala Dvvipa, as the son of Siva destroyed Taraka." J 



The sera of his son Vijayaditya is fixed by the inscription just quoted, 

 which is dated Saka 651, in the thirty-fourth of his reign, thus deter- 

 mining the year of his accession to be Saka 618. § 



A second inscription in the same Jain temple was made in the time 

 of the son and successor of Vijayaditya, named Vikramadity a. In it 

 Saka 656 is stated to be the second of his reign ; thus giving Saka 

 655 as the year of his accession, and ascertaining the duration of his 

 father's reign to have been thirty-eight years.|l 



No records have been obtained of any of the succeeding names 

 in the list, till the time of Teila, It appears indeed, that previous 

 to the sera of that prince the power of the Chalukyas was alienated 

 for a time, or had suffered a partial obscuration ; for he is described 

 as having recovered his hereditary dominions, by again subduing 



* Copper Sasana. Deducing his genealogy from Pulakesi, it continues :— " In trinsutar 

 pancha sateshu, Saka varsha (or 530), on the eighth day of the sixteenth royal victorious 

 year (Tijaya raj Samvatsara), on occasion of a solar eclipse, the king Vikramaditya and 

 his queen having bestowed certain gifts, the chief Senipati, or general, son of the Sa- 

 chiva, or minister, at the same time being in presence of the king, washed the feet of Ra- 

 va Sarmana, son of Madhuva Sarmana, and bestowed on him the village of Kurt-Kotah, 

 &c." The grant was found in digging the foundations of the Kulkurni's (or village record 

 keeper's) house, of this place. The titles of the priests, Sarmana, are remarkable, «3 

 indicating sectaries of the Buddha faith. 



•t Ins. at p. 1 of the MS. % Ibid. 



\ Ibid. The genealogy is given thus : " Vijayaditya, son of Vinayaditya, son of Vi- 

 kramaditya, Satya Sri." The date is, eka pancha shat utra shatashateshu, Vijaya raj 

 Samvatsara chatur trimshetu. The rajah, having taken instruction from his Guru (Swa- 

 guru) Niravidya Pundit Yatipati, the disciple of Udaya Deva Pundit, &c., the " de- 

 stroyer of other creeds," (para matha), gave one-eighth of the village to the Jinendra 

 of the Shenkh vasti of Pulikara Nagara. Pulikara Nagara is the ancient name of Lakmeswar. 



II Ins. p. 7. It records a grant of lOO Gaviyotis (an obsolete measure of land), to the Jina 

 Deva of Ramacharya, in the Shenkh vasti, a white Jinalaya of Pulikara Nagara. The date 

 is, pancha shat'utra shatashiteshu saka varsheshu vetiteshuVigaya raja Samvatsara pravar- 

 ' tamana dwitya. 



