Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy

Contents
Index
Introduction
Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction
A-Copper plates
B-Stone inscriptions
Topographical index of stone inscriptions
List of inscriptions arranged according to dynasties
Plates
Images
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
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
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

INTRODUCTION

The epigraphical survey of the Bombay-Karnatak was continued. This embodies mainly the results of the survey of the Bankapur taluk of the Dharwar District.

In these records are represented the main dynasties of the Karnatak, viz. Western Chāḷukyas, Rāshṭrakūṭas, Kalachuris, Yādavas, Hoysaḷas and Vijayanagara kings. The earliest record of the collection comes from Beḷgali in Bankapur taluk and is a fragmentary inscription of the time of the Western Chāḷukya king Kīrtivarman, probably Kīrtivarman II (No. 277). An inscription found at Arshinaguppi in Hangal taluk, belonging to the

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time of the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Amōghavarsha I and dated Śaka 781, Pramāthin, registers a grant made by the king’s subordinate Baṅkeya to the god of the place Kiruguppudūr (No 207). We learn from the copper plate record of Kadamba Kṛishṇavarman II (published in the Digest of Annual Report on Kannada Research in Bombay Province for the year 1940-41, pp. 3-5) that he granted the village of Kirukuppaṭūr situated in Pāntipura-vishaya. According to the editor of these plates, Kirukuppaṭūr has to be located near Kubṭūr in Shimoga taluk of the Mysore Province which adjoins Hangal taluk. But the correct reading of the place-name appears to be Kirukuppudūr. Thus the Rāshṭrakūṭa inscription at Arshinaguppi, whose ancient name was Kiruguppudūr, enables us to identify Kirukuppudūr of the Kadamba plates with the modern Arshinaguppi, about 10 miles from Hangal. Pāntipura or Pāṅktipura-vishaya comprised roughly the modern Hangal taluk.

As many as 25 inscriptions were copied at the village Tiḷiwaḷḷi in the Hangal taluk. The records mention the names of a number of learned Brāhmaṇas indicating that Tiḷiwaḷḷi, which is called an agrahāra, must have been an important seat of learning.

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