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Index
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Introduction
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List of Plates
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Additions and Corrections
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Altekar, A. S
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Bhattasali, N. K
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Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari
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Chakravarti, S. N
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Chhabra, B. CH
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Das Gupta
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Desai, P. B
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Gai, G. S
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Garde, M. B
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Ghoshal, R. K
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Gupte, Y. R
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Kedar Nath Sastri
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Khare, G. H
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Krishnamacharlu, C. R
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Konow, Sten
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Lakshminarayan Rao, N
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Majumdar, R. C
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Master, Alfred
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Mirashi, V. V
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Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R
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Narasimhaswami, H. K
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Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M
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Panchamukhi, R. S
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Pandeya, L. P
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Raghavan, V
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Ramadas, G
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Sircar, Dines Chandra
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Somasekhara Sarma
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Subrahmanya Aiyar
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Vats, Madho Sarup
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Venkataramayya, M
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Venkatasubba Ayyar
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Vaidyanathan, K. S
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Vogel, J. Ph
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Index.- By M. Venkataramayya
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Other
South-Indian Inscriptions
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Volume
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Volume
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Volume
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Vol.
4 - 8
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Volume 9
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Volume 10
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Volume 11
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Volume 12
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Volume 13
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Volume
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Volume 15
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Volume 16
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Volume 17
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Volume 18
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Volume
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Volume
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Volume 22
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Volume
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Part 2
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Volume
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Tiruvarur
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Darasuram
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Konerirajapuram
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Tanjavur |
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Annual Reports 1935-1944
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Annual Reports 1945- 1947
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
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Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1
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Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
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Epigraphica Indica
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
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Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 7
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 27
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 30
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 32
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Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
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Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2
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Vākāṭakas Volume 5
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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Archaeological
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Archaeological-Survey
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Pudukkottai
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
The alphabet is Kannaḍa of the 13th century and agrees with the general formation of the
period. The medial ē sign is shown independently above the letter ya in patayē, l. [1]. Attention
may be drawn to the cursive form of ma which is used occasionally, e.g., Madhukēśvara, l. 14. A
few instances of orthographical peculiarities and faulty spelling may be noticed. Gōkarṇa
is written as Gōkaṁrṇna, ll. 16 and 28. The form Chandā-ura of the place-name (l. 25) isnote-worthy. La is written for ḷa in kaligala, l. 19 ; Rādēya is a mistake for Rādhēya l. 20 ; Iṁdhyāṭavī for Viṁdhyāṭavī, l. 78.
The language of ll. 1-12 and 75-80, containing invocation, description of Kāmadēva’s
genealogy and imprecation, is Sanskrit ; all the remaining lines are in Old Kannaḍa.
A post-script in late characters of about the 17thcentury is engraved in the space remaining
after the end of the main record. It runs from l. 80 to l. 88 and records in modern Kannaḍa,
the grant of several privileges to certain Brāhmaṇas for the worship of the god Mahābaḷēśvara,
with the alleged authority of the chief Vīra-Kāvadēvarasa of the early record.
The object of the record is to register a sarvamānya gift of lands by Kādaṁba-chakravarti
Vīra-Kāvadēvarasa to Āhitāgni Mahēśvara-Bhaṭṭa of the Viśvāmitra gōtra and others at the
agrahāra village of Mūrūr (ll. 24-68). The gift was made in the presence of the god Mahābaḷēśvara
of Gōkarṇa in the Śaka year 1177, the cyclic year being Rākshasa, on Māgha śuddha 15,
Guruvāra, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse (ll. 26-28). The details of the date regularly
correspond to A.D. 1256, January 13, Thursday.
The record happens to be a royal grant and the donor chief Kāmadēva is described with a
long string of epithets and titles (ll. 12-24), some of which are significant. That the chief, notwithstanding his assumption of the high-sounding title of Chakravartin (l. 23), was only a petty
ruler is partly disclosed by the epithet Samadhigatapañchamahāśabda (l. 12), indicative of his
subordinate status. The epithets, Banavāsipuravarādhīśvara and Jayantī-Madhukēśvaradēva-labdha-varaprasāda, in conjunction with Kādaṁba, prove his connection with the later
branches of the Kadamba lineage. The earlier stock of the Kadambas split up subsequently
into a number of families that are known to have ruled in the western and southern parts of ancient
Karṇāṭaka from the 10th century onwards.[1] The better known of these are the Kadambas of
Hānagal,[2] of Goa,[3] of Bayalnāḍ,[4] of Bēlūr.[5] of Bankāpur[6] and of Nāgarakhaṇḍa.[7] But the family
to which Kāmadēva of the present record belonged, seems to be different from any of those hitherto
known. His genealogy as given in this record (ll. 7-12) consists of the following three names :
Vīra
Taila
Kāmadēva
A chief named Mahāmaṇḍaḷēśvara Kāmadēva, who is called Tailamana-aṅkakāra was a scion
of the Hānagal branch of the Kadambas, who governed Banavāsi and other districts.8 The
latest date available for him is A.D. 1211.9 This precludes the possibility of identifying him
with the Kāmadēva of the present record. Another Kāmadēva, who is almost contemporaneous
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[1] Rice : Mysore and Coorg from inscriptions, p. 27.
[2]Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, pt. II, p. 558.
[3]Ibid., p. 564.
[4]Ep. Carn., Vol. IV, Intro. p. 3.
[5]Ibid., Vol. V, Intro. p. iv.
[6] Above, Vol. XIII, p. 169.
[7]Ep. Carn., Vol. VII, Intro. p. 11.
[8]Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, pt. II. p. 563.
[9]Ep. Carn., Vol. VIII, Sb. 59.
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