{"id":19017,"date":"2024-01-06T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19017"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T09:14:04","slug":"kadamba-inscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kadamba-inscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Kadamba inscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kadamba inscription<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is written in\u00a0Kannada and Sanskrit.<\/li>\n<li>The inscription opens with an auspicious\u00a0word be it well (Swasthi Shri).<\/li>\n<li>It records that when\u00a0Talara Nevayya was administering the mandala, his son Gundayya having taken a vow to fulfil his father\u2019s desire of capturing a gopura of the port of Goa, fought and died after fulfilling his father\u2019s wish.<\/li>\n<li>Very interestingly, the record is composed as a vocal statement on the death of his son from the mouth of a lamenting father.<\/li>\n<li>It is in the\u00a0literary style of the Talangre inscription of Jayasimha I of the same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Kadambas of Goa<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Kadambas of Goa were the subordinates\u00a0of Chalukyas of Kalyana.<\/li>\n<li>Chalukya emperor\u00a0Tailapa II appointed\u00a0Kadamba Shasthadeva as mahamandaleshwara of Goa for his help in overthrowing the Rashtrakutas.<\/li>\n<li>Kadamba Shasthadeva conquered the city of Chandavara from the\u00a0Shilaharas in 960 A.D.<\/li>\n<li>Later, he conquered the port of\u00a0Gopakapattana (present Goa).<\/li>\n<li>Gundayya, the son of Talara Nevayya, may have participated in this battle, and won the port at the cost of his life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are inscriptions in history?<\/h3>\n<p>Inscriptions are the writings on stone, metal or some materials as an important historical source. These are valuable historical evidence of the existence and activities of early kings and empires. &#8230; Inscriptions are the information written on the stones, pillars and other metals<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Mangalore\/10th-century-kadamba-inscription-written-in-kannada-sanskrit-found-in-goa\/article67704655.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10th century Kadamba inscription written in Kannada; Sanskrit found in Goa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kadamba inscription is written in Kannada and Sanskrit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}