Kukada Bilaspur

Author: Laxman Burdak IFS (R)

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Masturi on Map of Bilaspur district

Shivrinarayan-Kukda Location Map

Kukada (कुकड़ा) is a village in Masturi tahail of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh.

Variants

• Kukda (कुकड़ा)
• Kugda (कुगड़ा)
• Kugdâ (कुगड़ा)

Jat Gotras Namesake

• Kukada (Jat clan) = Kukada is a village in Masturi tahail of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh. Mentioned as Kugda in Kugda Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - Kalachuri Year 893 (=1141 AD).

Location

It is located 17 KM towards East from District head quarters Bilaspur. Kukda is a Village in Masturi Tehsil in Bilaspur District of Chattisgarh State, India. Kukda is surrounded by Belha Tehsil towards west , Bilaspur Tehsil towards west , Akaltara Tehsil towards East , Pamgarh Tehsil towards East. Akaltara , Bilaspur , Bilaspur , Naila Janjgir are the near by Cities to Kukda. This Place is in the border of the Bilaspur District and Janjgir-Champa District. Janjgir-champa District Akaltara is East towards this place .

Kugda Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - Kalachuri Year 893 (=1141 AD)

No 87, (No Plate) Kugda Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - Kalachuri Year 893 (=1141 AD)

Source - Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1955, p.446-449

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[p.446: This inscription was first brought to notice by Sir A Cunningham's Assistant, Mr Beglar, in the Archaeological Survey of India Reports, Vol VII, p 211. It was subsequently noticed by Dr. Kielhorn who drew attention to a few historical names mentioned in it and especially to its date in the Indian Antiquary, Vol XX, p 84. It is edited here from inked estampages¹ kindly furnished by Mr MA. Suboor of the Central Muséum, Nagpur.

The inscription is incised on a stone lying detached at Kugdâ (कुगड़ा) near Bachhaudgadh in Janjgir tahsil of the Bilaspur District. It is fragmentary. The extant portion covers a space about 2' broad by 1' 11" high and contains twenty-five lines. Nothing is lost at the top and the bottom. .....The characters are Nâgarï and the language Sanskrit except perhaps the opening obeisance to some deity and the date at the end, the whole record was metrically composed. There were about twenty-nine verses, all of which were numbered². The orthography shows the same peculiarities as the Akaltarâ stone inscription of Prithvïdêva II.

The inscription, being fragmentary, does not admit of a connected and complete account of its contents. It seems to have several verses in common, with two other inscriptions³ found at Kôtgadh and another discovered at Ratanpur⁴ These inscriptions also are unfortunately very much damaged. The present record was apparently put up by Vallabharâja, a feudatory chieftain of the Kalachuri king Prithvïdêva II. It mentions the Kalachuri dynasty in line 1 and Lâchchhalladêvï in line 2. The latter we

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1. The estampages are not suitable for plating

2. The impressions show the number 28 towards the end of line 24

3. Nos 84 and 85 above

4. No 95, below.

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[p.447]: know from other records to be the queen of Jajalladeva I. The name of Ratnadëva (II), the son and successor of Jâjalladëva I, is partially preserved at the end of line 3. Vallabhatâja is mentioned in line 7. His exploits and charity, the town he settled and the lake he excavated appear to have been described in lines 8-19. The next four lines are completely effaced. It is not, therefore, possible to say what the present inscription was intended to record.

The inscription is dated in the year 893 (expressed in decimal figures only) without further specification of the month, fortnight or tithi. The date does not, there-fore, admit of verification. But the chief interest of it lies in this that it expressly refers itself to the Kalachuri era and to the reign of the illustrious king Prithvïdëva. The year 893, if expired, would correspond to 1141-42 A C Prithvïdëva, during whose reign the inscription was put up, was evidenly Prithvïdëva II of the Kalachuri Dynasty of Ratanpur.

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Wiki Editor Note:

• Kukada (Jat clan) = Kukada is a village in Masturi tahail of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh. Mentioned as Kugda in Kugda Stone Inscription Of Prithvideva II - Kalachuri Year 893 (=1141 AD).

• Bachhaudgadh - At Bachhaud, 5 miles to the west of Baluda, and about 14 miles north-west of Janjgir, is a fort said to be of stone and bricks with an arched gateway still in existence, the arched gateway is sufficient to mark the superior limit of its age, and there being nothing interesting in it was not visited. But since this was written, a fragment of inscription of great interest has been discovered by me when passing through in 1875-76, vide report 1875-76.

Kukda village in Durg stone inscription

Source - Hira Lal: Descriptive lists of inscriptions in the Central provinces and Berar,p.122

(166) Durg stone inscription.

(Deposited in the Raipur Museum)

There are two different inscriptions on this stone. The first one speaks of a Vaishnava temple and refers to a king Sivadeva, and the second mentions the names Sivapura and Sivadurga associated together, indicating that the town and the fort were separate in the times of Sivadeva and that he gave his name to both of them. The present name of Durg appears to be a contraction of the old Sivadurga. It may be noted that the river flowing close to Durg is also named Siva. The second record refers to a grant of a village Jalakoika made for the repairs of a temple, and another Mandhyata in the Kikkida abhoga (sub-division) for its maintenance. The village Jalakoika may be Kohaka (कोहका), 6 miles north-east of Durg, Jala being added to show its comparative wetness. Mandhyata and Kikkida remain unidentified, unless the latter is represented by Kikirda in the Bilaspur District. It is rather too far away from Durg, and the probability is that Kukda (कुकड़ा), 18 miles east of Durg, represents the old Kikkida,

(Cousens' Pt ogress Repirt, 1904, page 48, and Cunningham's Archaeological Reports, Volume XVII, pages 3 and 4.)

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