North Indian Inscriptions

BITRAGUNTA GRANT OF SAMGAMA II.

Professor Aurfect,¹ he died in died in A.D. 1387. All that we can at present gather regarding the genealogy of Mâdhava and Sâyaṇa, is as follows :—

......According to Mr. Sewell’s Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 142, Biṭraguṇṭa, the first of the villages granted, is situated 7 miles south by west of Kâvali, which is 32 miles from Nellûr (Nellore) and is the head-quarters of the Kâvali tâlûka in the Nellore district. Its situation is described in the inscription as being 3 yôjanas north of the town of Vikramasiṁhapura in the district called Pâkavishaya, which was situated on the shore of the Eastern ocean, i.e. the Bay of Bengal (verse 19). I do not know if the name Vikramasiṁhapura still exists ; but the name Pâka survives in the name of a certain sect of Telugu-speaking Śûdras in the Mysore territory, who profess to come from Pâkanâḍu, the country of Pâka, and are as such called Pâkanâṭis. The other village, Siṁkêśari, is said to be situated in the district called Mulikidêśa on the northern bank of Pennâ, i.e. the well-known Pennêr river, and to the north of the Śaiva temple at Pushpâchala (verse 24), which is identical with Pushpagiri, 8 miles north of Kaḍapa (Cuddapah). A native of Pushpagiri informed me that close to Pushpagiri is a village named Suṅkêsaru, which appears to be the same as the Siṁkêśari of the grant. It may be also remarked that a certain class of Smârta Brâhmaṇas, who call themselves Mulikinâḍuvâru, profess to have emigrated from the Muliki country. The other places mentioned in the inscription as the boundaries of the two villages (verses 22 and 25) I am unable to identify. But so much is certain that Saṁgama II. held portions of the present Nellore and Cuddapah districts, while his uncle Bukka I. was reigning at Vijayanagara. Saṁgama II. can scarcely have been dependent on Bukka I., as he would have otherwise referred to the latter as his overlord in his inscription. The fact that he represents his own father Kampa as the actual successor of Harihara I. also suggests that he considered himself entirely independent of Bukka I.

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First Plate ; First Side.

......¹ Catalogue Catalogorum, p. 711.
......² From the original copper-palates and ink-impressions of them.
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