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Decipherment of an Inscription from Chedi. [No. 4t, 
Bharadwaja, becoming, on one occasion, incensed at Drapada, took 
water in his hand,* in act to curse him. Some of it fell to the 
ground ; and from it the Chaulukyas derived their origin.f 
Queen Nohala erected a temple to S'iva, and gave it in charge to 
I's'waras'iva, disciple of S'abdas'iva, who came after Pavanas'iva, son 
of Madhumati. On Fs'waras'iva she bestowed two villages, Nipanlya 
and Vipataka ; and she likewise set apart, for the behoof of the 
temple, Dhangata, Pataka, Pondi, Nagabala, Khailapiitaka, Vida, 
Sajjakali, and Goshthapali.J 
Lakshmana was son of Keyuravarsha, by Nohala. Like his grand- 
sire, Lakhsmana waged hostilities against Kosala, and overcame its 
chief; if the words of an Indian eulogist may be taken literally. 
Odra, or Orissa, he is also reported to have invaded, and to have 
despoiled its king of an effigy of Kaliya, § wrought in gold and pre- 
cious stones. This effigy he consecrated to S'iva, at the famous 
temple of Somes'wara, or Somanatha, in Gujerat, where he had before 
’ dedicated a car. || 
Nohala’s temple, from which doubtless our inscription came, is 
again spoken of, with its incumbents, and their spiritual precursors. 
“ In one of tlie inscriptions, the origin of the family is deduced from ‘ Brahm, 
Manusputra (or Atri), Mandavi or Mandarvya, Hariti, Hariti Panclia Sikha, 
■who was making a libation to the sun, at the Sri Sauddbya, when the Chalukyas 
sprang from the spray of the water poured out. In this race were born Vishnu 
Yerddhana, Yijayaditya, and Satrya Sri, lord of Ayodya, &c.’ 
“ In another, the descent is brought from Brahma, through Budha and Ila, 
to Paruravas, ‘ from whom came Hariti the fire-tufted, making illustrious the 
Somuransa, and progenitor of many royal races, conspicuous among which was 
the Chalukya vansa, in which was born Satya Sri, the lord of Ayodhya, from 
whom the race was denominated the Satya Sri Kula.’” Journal of the Royal 
Asiatic Society , Yol. IV., p. 8, foot-note. 
This extract abounds with errors. I have not undertaken to set them right. 
* Cliaulukya is here referred to chululca , a word incorrectly defined, as to one 
of its senses, by Professor Wilson, “the hand hollowed to hold water.” It 
moans a handful of water. 
If Cliaulukya be the right word, it. is often found misspelt. 
Chullu denotes, in Hindi, what Professor Wilson understood by chululca. But 
chungal is not, as has been asserted, “a handful of anything dry, as chullu is of 
anything liquid.” It means as much as can be grasped between the contracted 
fingers and thumb. See Sir H. M. Elliot’s Supplemental Glossary , Vol. I., 
pp. 143, 144. 
+ See from the thirtieth stanza to the thirty-eighth, both inclusive. 
J See stanzas 40—45. 
§ Kaliya or Kaliya is the name of a huge serpent which Krishna, the divinity, 
is reputed to have subdued. It is the custom to make fancied representations, 
in miniature, of this monster, and to hang them about the neck of images of 
S'iva. See the Rhdyaxiata-purdna, Book X., chapters 16, &c. 
|| See stanzas 46 and 50— 62. 
