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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 10
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Volume 11
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Volume 12
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Volume 22
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Tiruvarur
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Darasuram
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Konerirajapuram
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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
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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
A NOTE ON THE NALAJANAMPADU INSCRIPTION
N. LAKSHMINARAYAN RAO, OOTACAMUND
In his article on this inscription Mr. Alfred Master attributes the record, which the places in
the 7th-8th century of the Christian era on grounds of palæography and language, to the Pallava
king Paramēśvara I. His main argument for doing so is that the expression Paramēśvara occurring
in line 5 of the record is a personal name and not a biruda of Bādirāja (l.7) as has been hitherto
supposed ; for, according to him, it is not likely that a subordinate chief of Pallava descent could
have used the biruda as the earlier Pallavas used the word only as a personal name and the later members of the family had no need to assume it. Moreover this title which was adopted by the
Chālukyas and occasionally used by the Rāhsṭrakūṭas was not used by the Bāṇas, the Gaṅgas or
the Chōḷas. But I may point out that there is at least one inscription at Kāñchīpuram which
indicates that the early Pallava king Narasiṁhavishṇu had the title of Paramēśvara.[3] In
the context it is not possible to take the word used in double entendre as the proper name of the
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[1] Above, Vol. XI, pp. 224 and 225.
[2] In the preparation of this paper, I have profited by some useful suggestions kindly put forward by Dr. L. D.
Barnett. I also owe thanks to Mr. C. S. K. Pathy, D-ēs-L for his perusal of the rough draft.
[3] S. I. I., Vol. I, No. 29.
Bharttuḥ Pur-ōnmathana-dṛishṭa-dhanur-bbalasya
Śailādhirājatanay=ēva Vṛishadhvajasya [|*]
yā Kālakāla iti viśruta-puṇya-kīrttēḥ
kāntā nitānta-dayitā Paramēśvarasyaḥ(sya)||[1*]
Dēvē jagad-valaya-rakshaṇa-baddha-dīkshē
nirhhinna-śatru-hṛidayē Narasiṁhavishṇau [|*]
vāllabhyam=ūrjjitam=avāpya virājatē yā
nirjjitya garvvam=iva Pushkaradēvatāyāḥ ||[2*]
As Narasiṁhavishṇu was the name of the king, the expressions Kālakāla and Paramēśvara are to be taken as
his birudas.
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