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South Indian Inscriptions

 

 

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Index

Introduction

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Dr. Bhandarkar

J.F. Fleet

Prof. E. Hultzsch

Prof. F. Kielhorn

Prof. H. Luders

J. Ramayya

E. Senart

J. PH. Vogel

Index-By V. Venkayya

Appendix

List of Plates

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

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Tiruvarur

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Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

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Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

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Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

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Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

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Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

TEXT.[1]
1 Kô Viśaiya-Î[ch]chuvara-
2 parumarki pannira-
3 ṇḍâvadu Kârôniri
4 Vâṇarâśar=ppôe[ir]=
5 [2]Chiraiû[r=e]riya Vâṇa-

6 râśar=[ariya] paṭṭâr=Aḍ[i]y[â][r ||*]

TRANSLATION.

In the twelfth (year of the reign) of the king Vijaya-Îśvaravarman, when Kârôniri Bâṇarâja seized Śiraiyûr in battle, Aḍiyâr fell, cut down by Bâṇarâja.[3]

No. 5.- A ROCK-INSCRIPTION AT TANDALAM.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.

The existence of this inscription (No. 1 of 1892) was brought to my notice by Mr. E. Srinivasachari, Deputy Collector, Madras. It is engraved on a rock near the tank at Taṇḍalam, a village in the Kârvêṭinagar Zamîndârî, 4½ miles west by north of Arkôṇam Junction. With the exception of the two Grantha words svasti śrî in the beginning, the alphabet is Tamil, and resembles that of the Vêlûr rock-inscription of Kannaradêva.[4]

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The inscription is dated in the 10th year of Śatti, the king of the Kâḍavas, i.e. Pallavas.[5] It consists of two Tamil verses, each of which states that Pallavamahârâja built a sluice for the tank at Taṇḍalam. The donor may have been either a relative of, or identical with, Śatti, who, as his title implies, claimed descent from the ancient Pallava dynasty. Pôḷiyûr-nâḍu, to which Taṇḍalam belonged, was perhaps named after the present Pôḷûr, a village 3 miles north-north- west of Arkôṇam Junction.

The Veṅkaṭêśa-Perumâḷ temple on the Tirupati hill bears on the north wall of its first prâkâra four Chôḷa inscriptions, which were copied from their (now lost) originals when the temple was rebuilt in the fortnight year of Vîra-Nârasiṁhadêva-Yâdavarâya. The second and third of these four copies (Nos. 62 and 63 of 1888-89) are dated in the 14th year of “Paratrama- hêndravarman” and “ Paratravarman”─ evidently misreading of the copyist for Parakêsari- varman. These two inscriptions record gifts by Śâmavai alias Kâḍavan-Perundêvi, the daughter of Pallava-Perkaḍaiyâr,[6] (and) the queen of Śattiviḍaṅgan alias Śrî-Kâḍapaṭṭigaḷ.”[7] It is not improbable that this Pallava king Śattiviḍaṅgan (i.e. Śakti-Viṭaṅka),[8] who was a contemporary of the early Chôḷa king Parakêsarivarman,[9] is the same person as the Pallava king Śatti (i.e. Śakti). In this case the subjoined inscription would belong roughly to the second half of the ninth century of the Christian era.
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[1] From two inked estampages.
[2] Read Chiraiyûr=.
[3] Literally, ‘while Bâṇarâja cut (him) down.’
[4 ] Above, Vol. IV. No. 9.
[5] See above, p. 23 f.
[6] Perkaḍai seems to be a Tamil form of the Kanarese pergaḍe and the Telugu preggaḍa, ‘a minister.’
[7] Compare Mr. Venkayya’s paper in the Madras Christian College Magazine for August 1890. Kâḍapaṭṭi seems to be a mistake of the copyist for Kâḍupaṭṭi, which occurs in a Pallava inscription at Conjeeveram (loc. cit.) and in two Gaṅga-Pallava inscriptions (South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. p. 92 f.). Compare also Kâḍuvaṭṭi (above, Vol. V. p. 171 and note 1) and Kâḍuviṭṭêśvara (ibid. p. 143).
[8] Dantiśakti-Viṭaṅkî alias Lôkamahâdêvî, a queen of the Chôḷa king Râjarâja I., built a shrine in the Pañchanadêśvara temple at Tiruvaiyâru ; see my Annual Report for 1894-95, p. 4.
[9 ] See above, Vol. V. p. 42 and note 7.

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