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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Nos. 3-4 under review show that the 29th Aṅka of Anaṅgabhīma III was followed immediately by his 31st Aṅka. The year 30 was thus omitted according to rule No. 1 quoted above, But rule No. 3 does not agree with the evidence supplied by our inscriptions. According to the rule, an Aṅka year of a king’s reign (with the exception of the 2nd Aṅka or 1st regnal year, according to rule No. 2) began on Siṁha (Bhādrapada)-sudi 12 ; but we have seen above how the 31st Aṅka or 25th regnal year of Anaṅgabhīma III began in the month of Phālguna. The conventional beginning of the Aṅka year quoted by Chakravarti therefore seems to have been stereotyped after the age Anaṅgabhīma III. The following geographical names are mentioned in the four inscriptions : Kshagōpaḍā or Chhagōpaḍā (No. 1), Kshātayī (or Chhātayī)-Utapallī or Utapallī in the division called Kshātayī or Chhātayī (No. 2), Kurāṅga and Mūraḍa (No. 3), and Rāvaṅga-Ālasaṇā or Ālasaṇā in the division called Rāvaṅga (No. 4). I am not sure about the identification of the localities. If Rāvaṅga was really the name of a district, it may be no other than the Rāvaṅga or Rāmaṅga vishaya mentioned in several other records.[1] TEXT[2] INSCRIPTION No. 1
1 Siddham[3] Svasta(sti | ) Sākādva[4] 1[14]7 [ | *] Svast[i] [ | *] śrī[5]-Anaṅkabhī-
INSCRIPTION No. 2 1 Siddham[13] svasti [|*] Śākādvā[14] 1158 śrī-Puruso(sho)ttamasya pravarddhamāna-vijaya- rājya Rāutta[15]-śrīmad-Anaṅka- ________________________________________________
[1] Journ. As. Soc., Letters, Vol. XVII, p. 24.
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