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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA This extract furnishes us with an account of Rawoot Row who may be identical with the Mahāpātra Soṭrāvu of our inscription. The dates of the several events narrated above, which would have helped us to confirm the identity are not given. Nevertheless it is possible to work out these dates. Quli Kootb Shah determined to remove his seat of government to a newly built town in A. D. 1589. Many years elapsed without any war taking place. The king thereafter extended his conquests south of the Kṛishṇā. His was with an impostor who claimed to be the eldest son of Ibrahim Kootb Shah, and the wars with the younger Mukunda Bhay-bulundar as well as with the king of Beejanagar[1] must have occupied him some eight years, i.e., up to 1597 A. D. An inscription at Śrīkūrmam[2] records the subjugation of Bhay-bulundar and other Hindu rājas. It says : “ Commanded by Hazarat Mahomad Quli Padshah, Motab Daulat, etc., Ameen-ool-mulk defeated Mukunda Bāhubalēndra and Vidyādhara, as they refused to pay tribute to the king, and killed Sarvarāja and other great men in the battle fought near Chintapalli ghāṭ.[3] Mukunda Bāhubalēndra and Vidyādhara ran away leaving their territories and he pursued them as far as Bāṇapuram (Bānpūr). While returning he halted at Śrīkūrmam in the Śaka year 1521, Vikāri, Chaitra ba.10, Tuesday.”[4] The details of the date correspond to A. D. 1599, April 10, Tuesday. Allowing about a year for the Mahomedan leader to pursue the fugitives as far as Bānpūr and return to Śrīkūrmam, we may consider that the battle of Chintapalli, which is not mentioned by Briggs, was fought in about A. D. 1598. Our Uddaṇḍa-Rāya Mahāpātra may have been one of those that fell in the battle or after it.
The record under review says that a piece of land, eight garises in extent, in the village of Bāṇaṅgi located in the Tālru-maṇḍala of the mokhāsa-samatu Dēvupalli ’ was given away. The village Bōṇaṅgi is about 6 miles from Śriṅgavarapukōṭa, the headquarters of a Revenue Taluk in the Vizagapatam District. Tālru that gave its name to the maṇḍala, is not found in the map. It may be a contraction of Taṇḍraṅgi, a village which is mentioned in a few inscriptions of Siṁhāchalam and which is 6 miles S. E. of Bōṇaṅgi. Dēvupalli is 18º15′ N. Lat. and 82º50′ E. Long. and is about 5 miles S. W. of Gajapatinagaram. The mokhāsa of this chief extended from Dēvupalli in the north along the foot of the ghāṭs to the upper course of the river Śāradā. In this region lie Dēvupalli, Gōpālapalli, Śriṅgavarapukōṭa, Lakkavarapukōṭa and other places, all of which were fastnesses indicative of the military strength of the country. This hilly region is full of Śiva temples and waterfalls. Near Śṛiṅgavarapukōṭa is Puṇyagiri, a place of pilgrimage especially on the Śivarātri day. A perennial stream of water falls from a rock about 20 ft. high on a thousand liṅgas below. Four miles to the South-East of Śṛiṅgavarapukōṭa is Dharmavaram where a Jaina image5 in Kāyōtsarga posture is worshipped as Sanyāsi-ayya. Up to the loins the whole of the lower part of the image is buried under ground. The portion above ground is about 3 ft. high. The whole image, when taken out stands about 6 feet. Women desirous of progeny make offerings to the Sanyāsayya and if they are blessed with offspring, the child is named Sanyāsi or Sanyāsi-amma according to its sex. ______________
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