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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH On palaeographical grounds the record has been assigned to about the latter half of the 8th century A. D. which may be accepted as correct, as the inscription shows, especially in the letters k, r, l and j later forms than the Veludurti inscription of Uttamāditya-Chōla (ins. J. above) which we have assigned to about the second quarter of the 8th century A.D. The letters are deeply engraved and are well-formed. While, as we have noted, a few letters are of later development than the Veludurti inscription of Uttamāditya, only the letter l (line 4) appears more archaic than the l of the Veludurti inscription. This need not be taken to militate against its date being later than that of the inscription of Uttamāditya. The persistence of old forms of certain letters in later inscriptions is not uncommon in South Indian Epigraphy. Attention may be drawn to the letter r in l.1 which is exactly in the form in which it is written as subscript in nru of lines 2 and 3. The absence of the serif in n final (lines 1 and 4) may be noted. The u, medial sign, attached to m in lines 2 and 3 presents a peculiar form. The inscription records that a certain Arivarajama fell after piercing Dantiyamma-Maṅgu while Kāpi-Bōḷa-Mutturāju, the ruler of Pudali (Pudali ēḷuvānru) and the son of Mahēndran surnamed Mānaravi and Mārurāpi[ḍugu], was looking on with wonder.
The title Mārurāpiḍu[gu], ‘ thunderbolt to enemy kings ’, of Mahēndra recalls a similar title of Puṇyakumāra, viz., Marunrapiḍugu (ins. F. Tippalūr inscription) meaning ‘ thunderbolt (piḍugu) to the enemies (marunru) ’. The meaning of the title Mānaravi is not clear but it seems to be identical with Mānāditya which was the name of a Telugu-Chōla subordinate of the Kaliṅga Gaṅga kings.[1] The place Pudali, which is stated to be under the rule of Kāpi-Bōḷa may be identified with Būdili, a hamlet of Būḍidigaḍḍapalle, where the present inscription has been found. The inscription[2] is important for the several personalities it mentions and for the useful information it provides in regard to the Telugu Chōla genealogy. Mahēndra, who bore the birudas, Mārurāpiḍugu and Mānaravi, father of Kāpi-Bōḷa Mutturāju, may be identified with Mahēndravarman II of the line of Sundarananda mentioned in the Madras Museum plates of Śrīkaṇṭha.[3] The Eḷañjōḷa (crown-prince or Yuvarāja) mentioned as the successor of Mahēndravarman in the record of Śrīkaṇṭha may have been another son of Mahēndra besides Kāpi-Bōḷa-Mutturāju of the present record. Kāpi-Bōḷa, being a Mutturāju, was probably the younger brother. Further, the Chōḷika Muttarasa figuring in several inscriptions at Śravaṇagudi[4] Miḍagēśi hobli, Tumkur District, (a place which is 30 miles west of Būdili and 10 miles south-east of Niḍugal or Erigal) and in another record at Nagaragere, Goribidnur taluk[5] (a place 10 miles south west of Būdili), wherein he is described as holding sway over Kandakoṭṭa and Rāmaḍi-nāḍu, may probable be identified with Kāpi-Bōḷa-Mutturāju. Probably he is the same prince mentioned in an inscription at Dānavulapāḍu[6] in the Jammalamadugu taluk of the Cuddapah District, as Kāpyaṇa, son of… Chōlamahārāja (name lost). Regarding Dantiyamma-Maṁgu, the opponent of Arivarajama, it may be stated that he is probably identical with Maṅgi, who seems to have renewed a grant of a Chōla-Mahādēvī at Chilamakūru.[7] His surname, Dantiyamma (i.e., Dantivarmma), would make him either a contemporary _________________________
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