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Altekar, A. S

Bhattasali, N. K

Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari

Chakravarti, S. N

Chhabra, B. CH

Das Gupta

Desai, P. B

Gai, G. S

Garde, M. B

Ghoshal, R. K

Gupte, Y. R

Kedar Nath Sastri

Khare, G. H

Krishnamacharlu, C. R

Konow, Sten

Lakshminarayan Rao, N

Majumdar, R. C

Master, Alfred

Mirashi, V. V

Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R

Narasimhaswami, H. K

Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M

Panchamukhi, R. S

Pandeya, L. P

Raghavan, V

Ramadas, G

Sircar, Dines Chandra

Somasekhara Sarma

Subrahmanya Aiyar

Vats, Madho Sarup

Venkataramayya, M

Venkatasubba Ayyar

Vaidyanathan, K. S

Vogel, J. Ph

Index.- By M. Venkataramayya

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

king which is given in the second verse of the record as Narasiṁhavishṇu. Among the rulers who claim Pallava descent, Chāru-Ponnēra, who was also known as Pallavādhirāja, bore the title of Paramēśvara.1 Vīra-Nombādhirāja (apparently Polalchōra, son of Chāru-Ponnēra) had assumed the title Rājaparamēśvara.2 Several inscriptions of the later Pallava chiefs of the Telugu country apply this title to their ancestor Kāḍuveṭṭi or Mukkaṇṭi Kāḍuveṭṭi.3 Of the other dynasties mentioned by Mr. Master, epigraphical evidence shows that the Western Gaṅga king Śrīpurusha (A.D. 725 to 788) used Paramēśvara as a birudas ;4 his son Śivamāra also bore it ;5 and a record of Nanniya-Gaṅga, a later scion of the same family, seems to give him the title.6 That the Chōḷa king Vīrarājēndra who ruled from A.D. 1063 to 1070 was given the title Paramēśvara can be seen from his Chārāla plates7 of Śaka 991 and from the stone inscription of the 6th year of his reign at Poṭṭapalli.8 The biruda of Rājaparamēśvara is known to have been borne by Kulōttuṅga I.9 It is thus difficult to maintain that the word Paramēśvara used in the inscription is not a biruda of a Pallava chief.

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Another reason adduced in support of the contention that the title could not be that of Bādirāja, who was a small Pallava chief, is the blessing of the aśvamēdha which would be ridiculous in a record of a petty chief and the mention of the rājamāna which implies a strong central administration. I shall give here a few instances from inscriptions which, though they do not refer themselves to the reigns of sovereign rulers, invoke the blessing of aśvamēdha and mention rājamāna. One of them is the inscription of Pṛithivīpati found in the Cuddapah District of the Madras Presidency.10 It is also written in the Telugu language and may be assigned on grounds of palæography to the 8th or 9th century A.D. During this period there was no independent ruler of the name of Pṛithvīpati in this part of the country. He could be only a minor chieftain. But his epigraph contains a reference to the rachchamāna (rājamāna) as well as to asvamēda (aśvamēdha). Another inscription11 of Śaka 894 which was issued during the administration of Śāntivarmmarasa, who was not a paramount king, invokes the fruit of eighteen aśvamēdhas on the person who protected the gift recorded in it. An early Telugu inscription of about the 7th century A.D. at Bōdanampāḍu in the Nellore District records a gift of land according to the rājamāna. It may be noted that this epigraph was not issued by a reigning king.12 Similarly an inscription at Kōḷālu in the Chitaldrug District of the Mysore State dated Śaka 953 which does not mention any ruling king registers an endowment of land measuring twelve mattar by rājamāna.13

Let me now proceed to the interpretation of the text of the record. After svasti, which can be regarded as a sentence in itself, the next sentence ends with ichche in line 13. If it is considered that there is another sentence ending with Pallavāditya of line 6, it would have no predicate. It would not, therefore, be natural to take the passage beginning with Bhagavad and concluding with Pallavāditya as a complete sentence, nor is there any justification for doing so. The whole passage preceding śrī-Bādirājula would thus govern Bādirājula.

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[1] Ep. Carn., Vol. XI, Chaḷḷakere 33 and 34.
[2] S. I. I., Vol. IX, No. 17.
[3] See S. I. I., Vol. IV, No. 1220 ; ibid., Vol. X, No. 362.
[4] Mys. Arch. Rep., 1927, No. 4.
[5] Ibid., 1924, Nos. 46 and 80 (l.65).
[6] Ibid., 1923, No. 113 (l.38). Some later chiefs of this family had this title ; see e.g. Ep. Carn., Vol. VII,
Shikarpur 109 and 130 and Shimoga 4 and 39.
[7] Above, Vol. XXV, page 262, text-line 156.
[8] Ep. Carn., Vol. X, Chintamani 161.
[9] S. I. I., Vol. VI, No. 200.
[10] Journal of the Telugu Academy, Vol. 24, p. 160.
[11] Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sorab 44.
[12] An. Rep. on S. I. E., 1934, part II, para. 40.
[13] Ep. Carn., Vol. XI, Hiriyur 77.

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