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Index
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Introduction
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Contents
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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.
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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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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
Links
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Archaeological-Survey
of India
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Pudukkottai
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH
not be satisfactorily identified with any modern village. Bi(Vi)ripāru is referred to in several
other records, viz., the Mālēpāḍu plates of Puṇyakumāra [1] and the Mālēpāḍu stone inscription of
Rāshṭrakūṭa Nityavarsha (Indra III).[2] In the former record the place is said to lie on the south
bank of the river Suprayōgā in Hiraṇyarāshṭra. The Suprayōgā may be identified with the
river Pennār white Hiraṇyarāshṭra may be taken to be identical with the region around the present
Kamalapuram and Cuddapah taluks. [3] Besides the above records in and around Mālēpāḍu, two
more inscriptions refer to Viripāru. One is the Kopparam plates of Pulakēśin II[4] and the other
the Mayidavōlu plates of Pallava Śivaskandavarman.[5] In the former it is stated that the ‘ road
leadings to Virparu ’ (Virparu-patha) constituted one of the boundaries of the village granted,
viz., Irbuli in Karmarāshṭra (Guntur Dt.). In the second, Viripara is described as belonging to
Āndhrāpatha. It is doubtful if the same village is referred to in all these records. The Viripāru
(Viriparu) mentioned in inscriptions in and around Mālēpāḍu may be different from the Virparu
or the Viripara of the Āndhrāpatha mentioned in the aforesaid Kopparam and Mayidavōlu plates
and which has been identified with Vipparla, Narasaraopet taluk, Guntur Dt.[6]
Therefore, the Viriparu of our record has to be looked for in the region around Rāmēśvaram
and Mālēpāḍu as stone inscriptions at the latter place also mention it. The importance of the
place and its situation south of the river Pennār make its identification with Mālēpāḍu itself not
unlikely, as both have their location on the south bank of the Pennār and their very names also
appear to have a common import.[7] The village Tārumunru cannot be located.
G. TEXT
1 Svasti śrī [||*] Pō-
2 rmukharāma Puṇyaku-
3 māra Prithivīvallabha
4 Chōla Mahārājulaku
5 pravarddhamāna vijaya rā-[8]
6 rājya samvatsarambuḷ yē
7 nagu nāṇḍu Vasantipōri
8 Chōlamahādēvaḷu Tāru-
9 munri Vasa[9]ntīśvaraṁbuna Pūlla-
10 vaṭṭambuna-vāriki Viripari-
11 [ti]-puloṁbuna reṇḍu tōṭaḷu
12 [ri]hitaṁba[10] rāchamānaṁbuna
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[1] Above, Vol. XI, p. 345, l.20 ; H. K. Sastri’s reading as Birapāru is to be corrected as Biripāru.
[2] No. 391 of 1904 of the Mad. Ep. Coll.
[3] JOR. Vol. XII, p. 363 ; Mr. M. S. Sarma, however, identified the rāshṭra with Arurornai of Ptolemy
and locates it in the Nellore district between the rivers Pennār and Suvarṇamukhī, Mad. Uni. Journal,
Vol. XII, p. 153. In the An. Rep. on S.I. Ep. for 1936, para. 7, pp. 56-7, the region is located in the Atmakur
taluk of the Nellore district.
[4] JTA. XI, p. 201 ; A. Bh. O. I. IV, p. 49 ; above, Vol. XVIII, p. 257.
[5] Above, Vol. VI, p. 87, text l. 12.
[6] Above, Vol. XXV, pp. 48-9.
[7] Mālēpāḍu, a probable corruption of Mallepāḍu, means the ‘ place of jasmines ’ (malle) and more or less the
same meaning is conveyed by the name Biriparu or Viriparu which means literally the ‘place of flowers’. The
Virijāji is a variety of the malle or jasmine and the term viripuvvu is the colloquial name of this flower. Cf.
also māle, garland. It has been suggested (An. Rep. on S. I. Ep. for 1936, para. 7, pp. 56-7) that Billupāḍu in the
Atmakur taluk, Nellore district, must have been the ancient Biriparu ; but there a.. not vestiges of Telugu
Chōla rule in that region in this period.
[8] Cancel this rā as the letter is repeated at the beginning of the next line.
[9] First written as śa and then corrected into sa.
[10] This may be read as [sa]hitaṁba.
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