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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 4─TIPPALURU INSCRIPTION OF VIKRAMADITYA II ; YEAR 1 (1 Plate) H. K. Narasimhaswami, OOTACAMUND The subjoined inscription[3] was copied by me in the year 1937-38 at Tippalūru in the Kamalapuram taluk of the Cuddapah District. It is engraved on a red granite stone that was lying in a field on the road side about a mile to the west of the village. The stone has since been removed for safe custody to the village chāvaḍi. The inscription is edited below with the kind permission of the Government Epigraphist for India. Tippalūru contains some early vestiges of archaeological interest besides the record under review. A pile of dressed granite stones along with some mutilated sculptures among them is all that is left of a temple of Śiva with the image of Nandi still lying in front of it under a banyan tree in the centre of the village. Among these broken sculptures is one of Sūrya, still intact with his seven steeds depicted at the base. Of greater interest than the image is a massive red stone pillar measuring almost ten feet in length, two feet square at the bottom tapering to about a foot square at the top and bearing an inscription, noteworthy for its palaeographic ________________________________________________
[1] [The reading seems to be bhaktishu.─D. C. S.]
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