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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA As noted above, Gōvindarāja had married Vinayavatī, whose father, Vikramāditya, is described in ll. 42-3 as chatar-ddig-addhipa ‘lord of the four directions’. This suggests that Vikramāditya was a powerful king. And the only renowned king of this name at that period, that is to say, about the middle of the 8thcentury A.D., could be Vikramādiya II of the Western Chālukyas of Bādāmi, whose reign is placed between A. D. 733-34 and A. D. 746-47.[1] It is, therefore, plausible to identify Vinayavatī’s father with Vikramāditya II. The object of the inscription is to register some gifts of land near the village Komāramaṅgala in the Pudukanda vishaya to one Nīlakaṇṭha, the youngest of the five sons of Nīlakaṇṭha of the Harita gōtra and the Prāvachana charaṇa. It is not clear who the donor of the grant was. The reading vijñāpitāya putrāya Duggamārāya, etc., in ll. 47-8, has to be construed with Śrīpurusha-prathama-nāmadhēyēna Pṛithuvī-koṅgaṇi-mahārājēna in ll. 37-8. The engraver seems to have omitted something here and hence the difficulty about the anvaya. We may, however, interpret the whole passage as follows : At the request of his queen Kāñchiyabbā, Dugggamāra obtained the grant from his father Śrīpurusha and in turn made it over to a Brāhmaṇa. The name of this Brāhmaṇa and the details of the grant have been given subsequently in the text. The grant seems to have been made for the benefit of Kañchiyabbā’s brother Indarāja, whose death is referred to just before the grant-portion in the text.
The date of the inscription is given in ll. 50-1 as Śaka 693, Chandra(Bhādra)pada Śukla [2], Uttara-Phalgunī nakshatra, Śukravāra, which regularly corresponds to Friday, 16th August A. D. 771, when the nakshatra was Uttara-Phalgunī. The way in which the number 93 is expressed, viz., navati-tri-saṁvatsara is not correct Sanskrit. It may, however, be due to the influence of the Dravidian style. As regards the places mentioned in the record, the village Komaramaṅgala is to be identified with Komāramaṅgalam in the Tiruchengode taluk of the Salem District. It lies at a distance of about 30 miles from Salem where the plates were found. The List of Villages in the Madras Presidency gives a number of places in the Salem District, which go by the name of Pudur. One of them may be identified with the Pudukanda of the inscription.2 TEXT3 First Plate
1 Ōṁ4 Svasti jitam=bhagavatā gata-ghana-gagan-ābhēna Padmanābhēna [|*] Śrīmat-Jāhna- _____________________
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