Someshvara III

Someshvara III
Reign1126–1138
PredecessorVikramaditya VI
SuccessorJagadhekamalla II
Died1138
Old Kannada inscription dated 1129 CE of King Someshvara III at Balligavi, Karnataka state

Someshvara III (IAST: Someśvara; r. 1126 – 1138 CE) was a Western Chalukya king (also known as the Kalyani Chalukyas), the son and successor of Vikramaditya VI.[1] He ascended the throne of the Western Chalukya Kingdom in 1126 CE,[2] or 1127 CE.[1]

Someshvara III, the third king in this dynasty named after the Hindu god Shiva made numerous land grants to cause of Shaivism and its monastic scholarship.[3][4] These monasteries in the Indian peninsula became centers of the study of the Vedas and Hindu philosophies such as the Nyaya school.[3] Someshvara III died in 1138 CE, and succeeded by his son Jagadekamalla.[5]

Someshvara was a noted historian, scholar, and poet.[1] He authored the Sanskrit encyclopedic text Manasollasa touching upon such topics as polity, governance, astronomy, astrology, rhetoric, medicine, food, architecture, painting, poetry, dance and music – making his work a valuable modern source of socio-cultural information of the 11th- and 12th-century India.[5][6] He also authored, in Sanskrit, an incomplete biography of his father Vikramaditya VI, called Vikramankabhyudaya.[1] His scholarly pursuits was the reason he held such titles as Sarvadnya-bhupa (lit, "the king who knows everything") and Bhulokamala ("the king who is lord of all living beings").[5]

  1. ^ a b c d A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 by E. Sreedharan, p.328-329, Orient Blackswan, (2004) ISBN 81-250-2657-6
  2. ^ Snodgrass 2004, p. 452.
  3. ^ a b Prabhavati C. Reddy 2014, pp. 99–101.
  4. ^ "नऊशे वर्षांपूर्वीचा शिलालेख जत तालुक्यात प्रकाशात". Loksatta (in Marathi). 13 February 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Kincaid & Parasanisa 1918, pp. 32–33.
  6. ^ Banerji 1989, p. 238.