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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 46─THREE VAIDUMBA INSCRIPTIONS FROM KALAKADA (2 Plates) H. K. NARASIMHASWAMI, OOTACAMUND The three inscriptions edited below with the king permission of the Government Epigraphist for India were copied by me at Kalakaḍa, a village in the Vayalpad Taluk of the Chittoor District during my collection tour in 1940-41.[11] The first, A, is on a large slab nearly six feet square are lying on a heap of debris close to the village school. A three feet square panel in the centre of the slab depicts, in high relief, a warrior wielding a massive sword in his right hand and holding, with his left, his opponent by the tuft. Two damsels with chowries are depicted on either side of the hero as if in the act of leading him heavenwards.[12] The first five lines of the inscription are engraved above the panel and the rest of it is continued on the right and left sides of it. The other two records, B and C, are engraved on the walls and tier stones of the basement of a small dilapidated temple in the same area. Inscription C refers to the deity in the temple as Pallīśvaramuḍaiya Mahādēva of Karkaḍai. _____________________________________________________
[11] A. R. Ep., Nos. 443-445 of 1940-41.
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