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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
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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 16
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Volume 18
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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
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
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Archaeological-Survey
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Pudukkottai
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
8 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA [ VOL. XXVII
villages named “Oontiya” in the same neighbourhood, it is not unlikely that the fort of Harivatsakōṭṭa, whose commander Jayasiṅgha was a witness to the grant, was situated somewhere in
the same province. It is, however, possible to think that the expression Harivatsakōṭṭanigraha
means “ the reducer (nigraha) of the fort of Harivatsakōṭṭa” and that, wherever the fort might
have been situated, the person who reduced it, namely Jayasiṅgha, might have belonged to the
region near about Pāṇḍaraṅgapalli, i.e., to the kingdom of Avidhēya, which closely adjoined the
Kadamba territory. On this supposition, the two homonymous persons might be identical with
each other. This is also in agreement with the description of Jayasiṁha given in the Aihoḷe inscription[1] of Pulikēśin II in the words :─
…..raṇē Lakshmīr=bhāvita-chāpal=api cha kṛitā śauryyēṇa yēn=ātmasāt(d)=rāj=āsīj=Jayasiṅhavallabha iti khyātaś=Chaluky-ānvayaḥ. (“ There was, of the Chalukya lineage, the king named
Jayasiṁha-vallabha who in battle…..by his bravery made Fortune his own, even though she
is suspected of fickleness”.)
If this identification is correct, it would follow that the Chālukyas of Bādāmi held a subordinate position under an earlier branch of the Rāshṭrakūṭas and when a suitable opportunity offered
itself, they carved out an independent principality on the wreck of the kingdom of their overlords
and of the Kadambas of Vaijantī.
Fleet assigns the Uṇḍikavāṭikā grants to “ approximately the seventh century A. D.” (Dyn.
Kan. Dist., p. 386). In the matter of assigning dates to records merely on grounds of palæography,
the approximation has been often too wide of the mark. For example, the Tālagunda pillar inscription[2] has been placed by Kielhorn in the 6th century A.D., whereas the latest researches have
proved an earlier date, i.e., 5th century A. D., for it. Similarly, the Mālepāḍu plates of Puṇyakumāra which are considered to belong to circa A.D. 800 have to be relegated to an earlier period.
Accordingly, the Uṇḍikavāṭikā grant, whose alphabet resembles closely the characters of the
characters of Kadamba Kṛishṇavarman II, the Polamūru plates of Vishṇukuṇḍin Mādhavavarman
Janāśraya, and the Rāmatīrtham plates of Vishṇukuṇḍin Indravarman, may reasonably be pushed
back to the 6th century A.D. which agrees with the period of Abhimanyu, the grandson of
Dēvarāja, father of Avidhēya (516 A.D.) of the Pāṇḍaraṅgapalli grant.
Thus, Jayasiṁha could possibly have waged war with the Kadambas in the first half of the
6th century A.D. and with the decline of the Rāshṭrakūṭas in the north of the Bhīmā and the defeat,
and destruction of the Kadambas in the South, he himself or Pulikēśin I, in all probability the
latter,[3] might have occupied the Kadamba territory making Bādāmi his capital. Bādāmi as
already observed, was a place of some importance in the period before Jayasiṁha, since it finds mention by Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.) under the name Badiamaioi.[4]
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1 Svasti [||*] Śaka-varshēshu chatuś-śatēshu pañcha-shashṭi-yutēshu
2 Aśvamēdh-ādi-yajñānāṁ yajvā śrauta-vidhānataḥ [ |*]
3 Hiraṇyagarbha-sambhūtaś=Chalikyō Vallabhēśvaraḥ [||1||*]
4 Dharādharēndra6-Vātāpim=ajēyam=bhūtayē bhuvaḥ [|*]
5 adhastād=uparishṭāch=cha durggam=ētad=achīkarat [||2||*]
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[1] Above, Vol. VI, pp. 1 ff.
[2] Above, Vol. VIII, p. 31.
[3] See foot-note 1 on page 5 above.
[4] McCrindle, Ancient India as described by Ptolemy, edited by S. N. Majumdar, p. 171.
[5] From the ink impression and photograph.
[6] [The reading Dharādharēndraṁ is also possible.─C.R.K.]
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