North Indian Inscriptions

UDAYENDIRAM PLATES OF VIKRAMADITYA II.

......dhirâja and many other Bâṇa princes had passed away, then there was born in this family―
1. Jayanandivarman (l. 20), who ruled the land west of the Andhra country. His son was―
2. Vijayâditya I. (l. 23) ; his son―
3. Malladêva, surnamed Jagadêkamalla (l. 28) ; his son―
4. Bâṇavidyâdhara (l. 31) ; his son―
5. Prabhumêrudêva (l. 34) ; his son―
6. Vikramâditya I. (l. 37) ; his son―
7. Vijayâditya II., also named Pugalvippavar-Gaṇḍa¹ (l. 39) ; and his son was the donor―
8. Vijayabâhu Vikramâditya II., who is stated to have been a friend of a certain Kṛishṇarâja (l. 43).

......The odd plate contains part of an inscription which a grant made by the same king in favour of some Brâhmaṇs ; and this existing portion of it gives the genealogy of the king commencing with Prabhumêrudêva.

......These inscription are not dated, but they may be assigned with some confidence to about the middle of the 12th century A.D. ; for Dr. Hultzsch has shown that the king Bâṇavidyâdhara of the above list probably lived during the first half of the 11th century of our era, because he married a grand-daughter of the Gaṅga king Śivamahârâja, whom Dr. Hultzsch has shown to have reigned between A.D. 1000 and 1016.²

......The place Udayêndumaṅgala, mentioned in the above, has already been identified by Mr. Le Fanu³ with Udayêndiram, where the plates are now preserved.

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First Plate.

1 Svasti śrî[ḥ*] || ⁵Yat-tat[t*]va-prakaṭîkṛitâv=atitarâṁ vêdô=pi n=âḷaṁ yata[ḥ]
2 sti(sthi)ty-utpatti-layâs=samasta-jagatâṁ yan(m)=manvatê yô
3 ginaḥ [|*] ⁶sâtsha-namra-surêndra-bṛinda-makuṭa-vyâlîna-rannâ(tnâ)va-
4 li-śôṇ-â[ṁ*]śu-vraja-rañjit-âṅghri-yugaḷô bhûtyai Śi-
5 vas=sô=stu vaḥ |(||)[1*] Kshi(kshî)rôdam mathitum-manôbhir=atulam⁷
6 dêv-âsurair=Mmandaraṁ hitv=âkshipta iv=Âñjanâdrir=iva ya-
7 s=tatr=âdhikam⁸ râjatê [|*] yô bhôgi(gî)ndra-nivishṭa-mû[r*]ttir=ani-
8 śam bhûyô=mṛitasy=âptayê rakshê[d*]=vaḥ sura-bṛinda-vandita-pata(da)-dva-
9 dvvaḥ⁹ ssa Nârâyaṇaḥ |(||)[2*] Yaḥ prâdâd=asur=âdhipô makha-varê dadv(ttv)=â-
10 [r]gghamm=âdyâya¹⁰ gâm sa-dvîpâm sa-charâcharâmm=adhimudâ¹¹ dê-
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......¹ [According to an unpublished Tamil rock-inscription on the hill of Pañcha-Pâṇḍava-Malai near Arcot, Pugalvippavar-Gaṇḍa, i.e. ‘the disgracer of famous (kings),’ was also the name of the father of a local chief, called Vîra-Chôḷa, who made a grant to Tiruppân-Malaidêva (i.e. to the Jaina temple on the top of the Pañcha- Pâṇḍava-Malai hill) in the 8th year of the reign of Kô-Râjarâja-Kêsarivarman (i.e. in A.D. 992).― E. H.]
......² See Dr. Hultzsch’s Progress Report for October 1889 to January 1890, pp. 3 and 4, and his Annual Report for 1891-92, p. 4 f., where the date of the Chôḷa king Râjarâja, and, consequently, of the Gaṅga king Śivamahârâja, is corrected.
......³ See his Preface to the Salem Manual, Vol. I. p. iv. f.
......⁴ From an impression supplied by Dr. Hultzsch.
......⁵ Metre : Śâdûlavikṛîḍita ; and of the two next verses.
......⁶ Read sâkshân-namra-.
......⁷ Mathitum-manôbhiḥ is evidently intended to be a compound ; but the proper form would be mathitu- manôbhiḥ.― Read atulaṁ.
......⁸ Read °dhikaṁ.
......⁹ Read –dvndvas=sa.
......¹⁰ Read rgham=âdyâya gâṁ sa-dvîpâṁ.
......¹¹ Read °charâm=.