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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
NALLUR GRANT OF HARIHARA II. ......This verse is addressed to Sâyaṇa and states that he belonged to the Bhâradvâja gôtra and followed the Bôdhâyana sûtra, and that his mother was Śrîmâyî,1 his father Mâyaṇa, his younger brother the poet Bhôganâtha, his master king Saṁgama (II.), and his preceptor Śrîkaṇṭhanâtha.2 His elder brother is also mentioned, but the name, instead of being Mâdhava, as may be expected, seems to begin with Mâyaṇa. ......The date of the subjoined inscription (verse 18) is not quite intelligible. The meaning of the syllables gôtradhacha (l. 51) is not apparent; nor can the occurrence of the word tidhau (i.e. tithau) in the same line after Pramâdini be explained, as the word occurs afterwards (l. 52) in its proper place. Leaving these two obscure words aside, the date is Wednesday, the day of a lunar eclipse in the month of Kârttika of the cyclic year Pramâdin, which was current after the Śâlivâha Śaka year 1321. Mr. Dikshit, to whom I submitted this date for calculation, has favoured me with the following remarks :— “The pûrṇimâ of adhika (intercalary) Kârttika of Śaka-Saṁvat 1321 expired, ended on a Wednesday at 27 gh. 20 p. Ujjain mean-time. Its European equivalent is the 15th October, 1399 A.D. There was a lunar eclipse on this day, as mentioned in the inscription, and, consequently, the above date must be intended in it, though the word adhika (intercalary) does not occur. There is a method by the application of which and by making calculations from the First Ârya-Siddhânta, this month is likely to prove an ordinary (not intercalary) month. The eclipse mentioned was visible for a short time after sunset over almost the whole of India.” ......According to verse 19, the place at which the grant was made by the king, was the shrine of the god Virûpâksha on the Bhâskara-kshêtra at Pampâ, a quarter of the city of Vijayanagara. Pampâ is the Sanskṛit equivalent of Hampe, the Kanarese name of one of the villages which now occupy the site of the ruins of Vijayanagara. The shrine of Virûpâksha, or Pampâpati, is even now situated in the center of the village of Hampe.3 From the present inscription we learn that that portion of Pampâ or Hampe, on which the temple of Virûpâksha is built, bore the name Bhâskara-kshêtra.
......The donees of the subjoined inscription were two Brâhmaṇa brothers, [Au]bhaḷa and
Nṛisiṁha, who belonged to the Bharadvâja gôtra and appear to have studied the Yajurvêda.
The object of the grant was the village of Nallûri (v. 23) or Śrînallûr (v. 29), which
was also called Sâvaṇarâjiyapuram (v. 25). The village was situated in Meguṇâ-vaḷanâḍu, which was also called Nalaṭuripâḷem-sîmâ and formed part of Paiyûri-kôṭṭa, a district of the
Chandragiri-mahârâjya. Chandragiri is now the head-quarters of a tâlukâ in the North Arcot
district. According to Mr. Crole’s Chingleput Manual (p. 438), “Peiyur-kottam” formed part
of the modern Ponnêri tâlukâ. Meguṇâ-vaḷanâḍu is probably a corruption of the Tamil name
Meykunra-vaḷanâḍu, which occurs in two of the copper-plate inscriptions preserved in the
Madras Museum. According to these two grants Meykunra-vaḷanâḍu was another name of
Paiyûr-kôṭṭam.4 Nalaṭuripâḷem may be connected with Nellaṭuri, which is mentioned in a
copper-plate grant of the third Vijayanagara dynasty.5 Toṇḍîra-maṇḍala,6 which occurs in
verse 20 of the subjoined inscription immediately before the boundaries of the granted village, ......1 In the introduction to his commentary on the Parâśarasmṛiti, Mâdhava calls his mother Śrîmatî ; see ante, p. 23, note 4.
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