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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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. 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]
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.
[1] From two inked estampages. |
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