Collects every known record of the Kalachuris of Tripuri (Dahala) and of Ratnapura (south Kosala), with text, translation and a long historical introduction. For 1200 it gives the grants and titles of Vijayasimha of Tripuri (reigning from about 1188) and of the Ratnapura branch, and shows the Kalachuri hold on the Narmada valley and Chhattisgarh in the last decades before the Chandelas, Yadavas and the Delhi sultans ate into it. Mirashi's introduction is the standard reconstruction of the dynasty's chronology.
About this source
- Title
- Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 4: Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era
- Author
- Various, edited by V. V. Mirashi
- Author's dates
- Mirashi 1893 to 1985
- Written
- inscriptions of the 7th to 13th centuries; edited 1955
- Language
- Sanskrit, with English translations
- Covers
- about 550 to 1300
- Kind
- Inscriptions
An Archaeological Survey of India publication; the scans are from Indian government libraries. The Kalachuri records thin out after about 1210, so the dynasty's last years are poorly dated.
Where to read it
Editions
- V. V. Mirashi (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum vol. 4, part 1 (Ootacamund, 1955) (in copyright; not linked) (not freely online)
- V. V. Mirashi (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum vol. 4, part 2 (Ootacamund, 1955) (in copyright; not linked) (not freely online)
- Another scan of vol. 4, part 2