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CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
VOL. VI
INSCRIPTIONS
OF
THE SILÀHÀRAS
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
VOL, VI
INSCRIPTIONS
OF
THE SILÀHÀRAS
EDITED BY
Vasiidev Vishnii MlrasM,
.^
,
MA
,
D Litt
(Bom
),
D Litt
{Honoris Causa)
(Saugar and Nagpur)
Former Principal and Piofessor of Sanskrit, Morns Collège, Nagpur, and Vidarbha
Mahavidyalaya, Amiaoti, formel
Hon
Professer of Ancient Indian History
and Culture,
Nagpur University, Fellow, Sahitya Akademi, Hon
logical
Goiiespondent to the ArchaecIndia,
Survey of India, Fellow, Numismatic
Society of
and Epigraphical
Society of India
With
3
Maps and
143 Plates
TïFP^rtTf»TRnrg^
PUBLISHED BY THE DIREGTOR GENERAL,
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
JANPATH,
NEW DELHI
Pnce
Rs. 170.00
© AE.GHAEOLOGIGAL SURVEY
1977
OF
INDIA
PRINTED AT SREE SARASWATY PRESS LTD
,
CALCUTTA
Dedicated to the
of
Memory
Rao
Balladur Kashmath Narayan Dikshit, MA, F A S B Former Director General of Archaeology India
m
by
The Editor
PREFACE
centuries ago, TILL about twowas completeîy ancient India,
inscriptions
tlie
Silâhâra family, like most other royal families of
noticed or cared
unknown to history There were mdeed several stone scattered about m North Konkan and the région round Kolhàpur, but none for them In 1 784, durmg the time of ...

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V'INDICARUMCORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM
VOL. VI
INSCRIPTIONS
OF
SILÀHÀRASTHE
^'-'-i'.^ïSURVEY OF INDIAARCHAEOLOGICAL
INDICARUMINSCRIPTIONUMCORPUS
VOL, VI
INSCRIPTIONS
OF
THE SILÀHÀRAS .^ ,
EDITED BY
Vasiidev Vishnii MlrasM,MA (Bom D Litt {Honoris Causa), D Litt ),
(Saugar and Nagpur)
Former Principal and Piofessor of Sanskrit, Morns Collège, Nagpur, and Vidarbha
Mahavidyalaya, Amiaoti, formel Hon Professer ofAncient Indian History and Culture,
Nagpur University, Fellow, Sahitya Akademi, Hon Goiiespondent to the
Archaeclogical Survey of India, Fellow, Numismatic Society of India, and Epigraphical
Society ofIndia
With 3 Maps and 143 Plates
TïFP^rtTf»TRnrg^
PUBLISHED BY THE DIREGTOR GENERAL,
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
JANPATH, NEWDELHIPnce Rs. 170.00
©
OF INDIAAE.GHAEOLOGIGAL SURVEY
1977
PRINTED AT SREE SARASWATY PRESS LTD , CALCUTTADedicated to the Memory
of
Rao Balladur Kashmath Narayan Dikshit, MA, FA S B
Former Director General of Archaeology m India
by
The EditorPREFACE
royal families ofcenturies ago, tlie Silâhâra family, like most otherabout twoTILL
were mdeed several stoneancient India, was completeîy unknown to history There
round Kolhàpur, butnoneinscriptions scattered aboutm North Konkan and the région
Governor-General Warren Hastmgs,noticed or cared for them In 1 784, durmg the time of
gave a fiHip to the study of Indian anti-the Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded, which
first Volume of its journal, the Asiate Researches, wasquities Four years îater, m 1 788, the
Carnac's English translation of the Thânâ plates of thepublished It contamed General
the âaka year 939 (AD It was prepared by theSilâhâra kmg Arikësarm, dated m 1017)
General with the heip of Pandit Ramalochan of Calcutta, and was quite hteral, English
words bemg used for Sanskrit ones exactly as m Sanskrit compounds Tins volume of the
ofjournal was so enthusiastically hailed that it went through as many as five reprmts In one
publishedthèse, the facsimile ofthe first plate ofthegrant, and, m another, its transcript were
Thèse plates are not piocurable now, but their Sanskrit text conjecturally restored with the
help of other âilâhâra records lias been mcluded m the présent Volume Smce then several
been publishedm Indian and foreign periodicals But theyinscriptions of the Silâhâras hâve
they were discoveied, and hâve not been arranged systematically Inhâve been edited as
Prinsep mdicated the necessity of arrangmg systematically the available mscrip-1837James
tional material bearing on ancient Indian history, and also suggested the name Corpus
Inscriptionum Indicarum for the Séries of its volumes The first volume of tins Seiies was published
exactly a hundred years ago, m 1877, by Sir Alexander Cunmngham Smce then it has been
re-edited by Dr Hultzsch Two more volumes of the Séries hâve also been edited—Vol II
Part 1 (Kharoshthi Inscriptions) by Sten Konow, and Part ii (Bhârhut Inscriptions) by
Luders, Waldschmidt and Mehendale, and Vol III (Gupta Inscriptions) by Fleet
In 1935 I was mvited by the then Director General ofArchaeology to edit a Volume of
arduous task, thoughthe inscriptions ofthe Kalachuri-Chedi Eram the Séries I accepted the
discoveredm the Hmdi-with considérable diffidence, as several records of the era had been
the Provinces and Berar, where I had been livmg for a longspeakmg paît of then Central
The Volume was published ultimately about that time I had preparedtime m 1955 Just
collection of inscriptions, that of the records of the Vâkâtakas, who, m ancientanother viz ,
were ruhng over the Marathi-speakmg part of the province On commg to know of it,times,
Director General ofArchaeology offered to publish it as a Volume of the Corpus Inscrip-the
tionum Indicarum The offer was accepted, and the Volume was published eight years Iater,
1963 I hâve thusm away tried to pay, howevermadequately, the debt I owe to the provincem
where I hâve spent the best part ofmy life durmg the lastmore than fifty years
After the Vâkâtaka Volume was published, I thought of coUectmg and editmg the
available inscriptions of the Silâhâras, who were ruhng over Konkan where I was born, and
over the Kolhâpur région where I received my early éducation I hâve spent most ofmy
time durmg the last dozen yearsm coUectmg and editmg the inscriptions ofthat royal family,
andm solvmg the problems presented by its history I oflferedmywork to the Director General
of Archaeologym my letter dated the 31st May 1971, and requested him to supply me the
ofestampages some unpublished records of the Silâhâras Ultimately, I submitted the
typeof for publication byscript the Volume to him on the 30th January 1973 It was accepted
the 22nd itshim on February 1973 I am glad to see prmting completed nowPREFACE
(vin)
of ten knownail available inscriptions of three outThe présent Volume contams
Konkan, and overwere ruhng over North and Southof the Silâhâra family Theybranches
well-known.remaimng branches of the family are not sorégion round Kolhàpur Thethe
themselves Thethis work, several difficulties presentedWhen I thought of undertakmg
been lost Somehad not been published Some hâve nowestampages ofsome ofthe records
ignorant of that language But mylanguage, and I am whollyothers arem the Kannada
valuablehelpmovercommg ailEpigraphist for ïndia, renderedmefriendDr G S Gai, Chief
of his Department, supphedseveral records copied by an Officerthèse difficulties He got
inscriptions, and rendered meof about half a dozen Kannadatranscripts and translations
much help from some other friendsvarions other ways I hâve also receivedvaluable helpm
Mr S Balkundi Unfortunately,Lakshmmarayan Rao,Dr A N Upadhye and VhkeMr N
to ail thèse friends But for theirtwo are not now with us I am deeply mdebtedthe latter
help, this Volume could no^ hâve been preparedungrudgmg
âilâhâras of North Konkan wasThe first attempt to write the pohtical history of the
Vol I, part n In theRev Alexander Kyd Nairne m the Bombay Gazetteei, (1896)made by
history of Kolhàpur âilâhâras,Volume ofthe GazetteerDr R G Bhandarkargave the thesame
above Next Dr. A S Altekar alsoDr Fleet that of ail the three branches mentionedand
Inàan Culture, Vol II But ail thèsedealt with the history of ail the three branches in the
branches The other aspects of theirscholais hâve given only the pohtical history of thèse
mtended to write a comprehensive historyhistory hâve not been touched Dr M G Dikshit
it. It is a matter for regret that he did notofthe Silâhâras, andhad gathered much material for
live complète his workto
After I submitted my work to the Director General ofArchaeology, I thought
ofpubhshmg a short Marathi version of it as I had donc before m the case of my two previous
Volumesm the C 1 1 for I was not sure oflivmg to see the Enghsh Volume published I was
,
thenm my eightieth year, and had not been keepmg good health for some time I also knew
fiom past expérience that the prmtmg of the Enghsh Volume would take some years for
completion So I prepared an abridged Marathi version of it and, with the permission ofthe
Director General ofArchaeology, offered it to the Vidarbha Samshodhan Mandai, Nagpur,
for pubhcation The Mandai published it three years ago with a subsidyfrom the Maharashtra
State Board of Literature and Culture Smce then, some more inscriptions of the âilâhâras
hâve come to notice They hâve been mcludedm an Appendix
The présent Volume contams sixty-four inscriptions ofthe Silâhâras ofNorth and South
Konkan and the région round Kolhàpur, and one more of the Yâdava kmg Smghana, who
annexed the Kolhàpur kmgdom One of thèse, viz the aforementioned Thanâ plates of
,
Arikësarin, known only from its Enghshis translation, and another, viz the Bhoighar plates of
,
Chhittarâja, a formwas availablem mutilated as recited from memory by a Vedic scholar
The Sanskrit texts ofthèse two records hâve been restored conjecturally with the help ofother
âilâhâra inscriptions from North Konkan Ail other records hâve been edited either from
their origmals or from theirpublished facsimiles Besides, the présentVolume gives the pohtical
history ofthe three branches and describes the administration, religions, social and économie
condition, literature, architecture and sculpture of the âge For the account of the Kannada
work, the friend DrMêmmàthapuràna, given hère, I am mdebted to my late A N Upadhye of
Kolhàpur SilàhâraFor the illustrations ofsome sculptures which were first publishedm the
Bulletin of the Prince of Wales Muséum, Bombay, I am thankful to the Director of the Muséum,
who kmdly supphed their photographs Prof V N Rajaguru ofthe Polytechnic Institution,
Kolhàpur, has greatly obkged me by supplying the ground-plans of the Silàhâra temples m
Kolhàpur and Khidrâpur