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Altekar, A. S

Bhattasali, N. K

Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari

Chakravarti, S. N

Chhabra, B. CH

Das Gupta

Desai, P. B

Gai, G. S

Garde, M. B

Ghoshal, R. K

Gupte, Y. R

Kedar Nath Sastri

Khare, G. H

Krishnamacharlu, C. R

Konow, Sten

Lakshminarayan Rao, N

Majumdar, R. C

Master, Alfred

Mirashi, V. V

Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R

Narasimhaswami, H. K

Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M

Panchamukhi, R. S

Pandeya, L. P

Raghavan, V

Ramadas, G

Sircar, Dines Chandra

Somasekhara Sarma

Subrahmanya Aiyar

Vats, Madho Sarup

Venkataramayya, M

Venkatasubba Ayyar

Vaidyanathan, K. S

Vogel, J. Ph

Index.- By M. Venkataramayya

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

TIRUVORRIYUR INSCRIPTION OF CHATURANANA PANDITA

The suggestion Kumāra is based on the identification, which I am disposed to make, of this general of Rājāditya, with Vellaṅ-Kumāra or Vellaṅ-Kumāran, a Kēraḷa general of Rājāditya who figures in two inscriptions[1] of the Śiva temple at the village of Grāmam in the Tirukkōyilūr taluk of the South Arcot District. The date of one of these corresponds to A.D. 943 and it has been edited by Venkayya.[2]From this inscription, we learn that this Kēraḷa general was called Vellaṅ-Kumāran, that he hailed from Puttūr or Navāgrahāra, more fully Nandikkaraipputtūr, in Malai-nāḍu, that he was an eminent Malayāḷi (Uttmaḥ Kēraḷānāṁ), that he was the grand-general of Rājāditya (avichalita-chamūnāyaka and Perumpaḍai-nāyakar) and that he built the Śiva temple at Mauḷigrāma or Tirumuḍiyūr on the banks of the Pennār.[3] Earlier, in A.D. 935-6, the same Vellaṅ-Kumāra had made a gift of sheep for a lamp in the same temple, as can be seen from the other inscription in the same place,[4] and there he is described as the Mūla-bhṛitya of Rājāditya[5] which may mean that he was the general of the permanent and personal forces of that prince.

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Now, we can see that both Vaḷabha of our inscription and Vellaṅ-Kumāra of the two Grāmam inscriptions are described as very intimate generals of Rājāditya.[6] Secondly both are described as natives of Kēraḷa. In our record, he is described as the son of the chief of the Vallabharāshṭra in Kēraḷa, i.e. Vaḷḷuva-nāḍu in Malaināḍu ; and in the Grāmam inscriptions, he is said to have hailed from the village of Nandikkaraipputtūr in Malai-nāḍu, i.e. Kēraḷa. From an inscription of the 18th year of Rājarāja I,[7] at Nandikkarai we learn that Nandikkarai was taken as belonging to Vaḷḷuva-nāḍu. Thirdly, he is called Vaḷabha in our inscription after his Rāshṭra and I think, Vellan in the name of Vellaṅ Kumāran of the Grāmam inscriptions, is only a form of Vallabhan.[8] Fourthly, as I have already pointed out, the rhetorical implications of the first Sanskrit verse of our inscription require the assumption of a word meaning Subrahmaṇya or Guha as part of the

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[1] Nos. 735 and 739 of 1905 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection.
[2] An. Rep of the A.S.I. 1905-6, pp. 171 ff.
[3] An. Rep. of the A. S. I. 1905-6, p. 182.


[4] No. 739 of 1905 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection.
[5] [In the other record at the place (No. 735 of 1905 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection) edited by Mr. V. Venkayya, he is called the Mūla-bhṛitya of the Chōḷas (śōlargaḷ mūla-bhṛityar).─Ed.]
[6] The expression in our record Prakaṭa-tara-guru-snēha-sāmanta-bhāvaṁ compares with the Avichalita-chamū-sāyuka, Mūlabhṛitya and Perumpaḍaināyaka of the Grāmam inscriptions.
[7] Trav. Arch. Ser. Vol. I., pp. 291-2.
[8] Vaḷḷuva is a well-known Tamil form of Vallabha ; that in Malayalam, Vallabha becomes Vella can be seen from the old list of Sanskrit Malayalam equivalents in personal names published in the journal of the Travancore University Oriental Mss. Library, IV, iii. Oct.’ 48, p. 45, Mss. Notices and Studies, verse 15.

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