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  • Brahmanical Perception of Delhi Sultans as Revealed in Sanskrit Inscriptions
  • サンスクリットコクブン ニ ミエル スルターン ニンシキ

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As the Sultanate established their state in Northern India in the 13th and 14th centuries, indigenous people there had, more or less, accepted their rule in any event. Since early times, Brahmans had accepted and legitimized foreign rulers who assimilated Sanskrit culture and ruled as Sanskritised kings in accordance with varṇa-dharma. However, the Delhi Sultans did not accept the Sanskrit political culture but ruled as Perso-Islamic rulers. Then, how had indigenous Indians perceived Delhi Sultans and accepted them as their rulers? This paper inquires into this issue by analysing how Sanskrit pūrta-dharma inscriptions, which were engraved at construction of wells for public use, praised Sultans, rulers at the meritorious time of the construction. Most of the Sanskrit inscriptions praised Sultans as traditional Sanskrit kings but perceived them as a single foreign royal family (‘Śakas’) which was actually composed of several royal lineages. And they produced a completely new style of praśastis (eulogies) of royal genealogies: mentioning the former royal families ruling Delhi as well as the present ‘Śaka family’, by which the latter was perceived as legitimate rulers succeeding to the former Sanskrit kingdoms of Delhi. However, the most striking record, Sarban inscription in the 14th century, does not praise the present Sultan and his ‘TuruSka family’, and clearly criticise them as ‘mlecchas’ (barbarians). Interestingly, the denial of the Sultans inevitably leads to the praise of the immediate predecessors, the Cāhamānas. Thus, the new style of genealogical praśastis created at the advent of the Delhi Sultanate, at every moment when indigenous people felt aversion to Sultans for some reason or other, unintentionally raised the political position of the Cāhamānas which were originally regarded as a mere royal clan of periphery Rajatshan. That was probably the first step towards their historical position of ‘the last Hindu Empire of Delhi’ attained in the Mughal period.

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