India history and geography

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Baddiga (बद्दिग) or Vaddiga of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa line of kings is mentioned in the Paṭṭaṇakuḍi plates of Avasara II.—“After Indrarāja (III) came his son Amoghavarṣa (II), who had a very handsome form. He had a younger brother (named) Govindarāja (IV), who, like Vasanta (spring), was an abode of the sentiment of love, and, like Kṛṣṇa, was (always) surrounded by a multitude of excellent women. There was his uncle, King Baddiga, son of Jagattuṅga, who was like a wishfulfilling tree to suppliants, the god of death to his enemies, a store of political wisdom, a veritable image, in the Kali-yuga, of the kings of the Kṛta-yuga, (and) who was of virtuous conduct and peaceful nature like a sage”.

These copper plates (mentioning Baddiga) were found by a Brāhmaṇa of Khārepāṭan, a town in the Devagaḍ tālukā of the Ratnāgiri District. The inscription refers itself to the reign of the Śilāra king, Māṇḍalika Raṭṭarāja. As his predecessors were loyal feudatories of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, it gives first the genealogy of that family from Dantidurga to Kakkala. The inscription is dated, in lines 41-42, on the full-moon tithi of Jyeṣṭha in the śaka year 930, the cyclic year being Kīlaka.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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Starts with: Baddigadeva.

Full-text: Amoghavarsha, Krishnaraja.

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