Lokananayaka, Lokaṇanāyaka, Lokana-nayaka: 1 definition



India history and geogprahy

Source: What is India: Inscriptions of the Śilāhāras

Lokaṇa Nāyaka (fl. 1182 A.D.) is the name of a brāhmaṇa mentioned in the “Kolhāpur stone inscriptions of Bhoja II”. Accordingly, “... a house measuring twelve cubits in the south-western direction of and within the enclosure of the maṭha caused to be constructed by the Sahavāsī (Brāhmaṇa) Lokaṇa Nāyaka within the enclosure of and to the north of the western gate of the famous temple of Mahālakṣmī at Kollāpura”.

This stone inscription (mentioning Lokaṇa Nāyaka) is said to have been found in the enclosure of the temple of Mahalakṣmī at Kolhāpur. It records the grants made by Bhoja II at his camp at Valavāḍa for the augmentation of his own kingdom. It is dated on the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti, on Tuesday, the fourth tithi of the bright fortnight of Puṣya (i.e. Pauṣa) in the expired Śaka year 1104, when the cyclic year Śubhakṛt was current.

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