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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH Tiruvuḷa, probably the place to which the Brāhmaṇa belonged, may well be the same as Tiruvura, the scene of a battle mentioned in an inscription of Dhanañjaya II of Erigalvāḍi.[1] The same place appears to have been the scene of another battle in which a general of the Vaiduṁba Mahārāja (c. 9th century A.D.) is stated to have lost his life [2]; but its exact situation in not known. C. TEXT
1 ..[Chō]la-Mahārāju[rla]
D. Indukuru Inscription of Chola-Maharaja This record[5] is engraved on a stone at the entrance to the village of Indukūru, Kamalapuram taluk. The record is engraved in bold square characters in a style which differes form that of ins. C although both may belong to the same period. The orthography of the inscription reveals a few interesting points. A clear distinction is noticeable in the forms of the full consonant and the final consonant in that the latter is written in a slightly dimunitive form without the top stroke, e.g., n, final, in ll. 2 and 5 and l final, in ll. 2 and 3. The phrase, [Rē*]vaśarmmārikin (l. 5) perhaps shows that in popular pronunciation of the time Śarmavāru or Śarmayāru became Sarmāra. The n ending, of the word, as in poetry, is also noteworthy. Similarly, in l.7 in the compound word Saṁyyuktunrugu which is made up of two words Saṁyyuktunru+agu either the letter a is elided or possibly we have an antique form of the sandhi, u+a. We may note here that in a similar sandhi (u+a) in the compound Uttamōttamunr=ayinavānru in the Tippalūru inscription of Puṇyakumāra (ins. F below l. 4), the letter u is elided in the more usual way. The consonant is found doubled after the rēpha in Rēvaśarmamā of l. 5. In saṁyyuktunru (l. 7) we have an instance of the doubling of the consonant after the anusvāra. The distinction between t and d is not observed in the word tēni in l. 5 which stands for dēni. The inscription registers the gift of a pannasa to [Rē*]vaśarman, a Brāhmṇa (pāra) of Kochchiya, i.e., of the Kauśika-gōtra, by Erigal-Dugarāju while Chōla-Mahārājulu was ruling. The record is stated to have been composed or engraved (likhitaṁ) by Asivairuvu. The inscription belongs to the same king Chōlamahārāju of the Uruṭūru inscription (inscription C above) and hence he may be Mahēndravikrama Chōla-Mahārāju and the donor Erigal-Dugarāju may likewise be Guṇamudita. ______________________________
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