Kaliyananayaka, Kāliyaṇanāyaka, Kaliyana-nayaka: 1 definition

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Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Kāliyaṇanāyaka (fl. 1191 A.D.), son of Lokaṇanāyaka, is the name of a Brāhmaṇa mentioned in the “Kolhapur stone inscription of Bhoja II”. Accordingly, “... Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, son of the same Sahavāsī (Brāhmaṇa) Lokaṇa Nāyaka, gave to the aforementioned four Brāhmaṇas..”.

This stone inscription (mentioning Kāliyaṇanāyaka) was found built into the house of Annacarya Panditrao in the enclosure of the temple of Mahālakṣmī at Kolhāpur. It records certain grants made by the king and by a private individual to certain Brāhmaṇas evidently residing at Kolhāpur. It is dated on the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti on Tuesday, the twelfth tithi of the dark fortnight of the month Puṣya (i.e. Pauṣa) in the expired Śaka year 1112, when the cyclic years was Sādhāraṇa.

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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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