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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
No. 30─ NOTE ON PALLAVARAYANPETTAI INSCRIPTION OF K. A. Nilakanta Sastri And T. N. Subramaniam, MADRAS While editing the Pallavarāyanpēṭṭai inscription of Rājādhirāja II,[2] Mr. V. Venkatasubba Ayyar has translated lines 10 to 13 of the record as follows : “Even in earlier years, when the senior king was alive, it having been seem that there were no sons fit for anointment, the (exact) state of affairs, as it (then) stood, (was intimated to the king) . . . . . . . . and (having brought) the princes, residing at Gaṅgaikoṇḍaśōlapuram, and at the time of Periyadēvar’s demise, he (Pallavarāyar) had Edirilipperumāḷ, the son of Neriyuḍaipperumāḷ and grandson of Uḍaiyār Vikramaśōladēva, who has already been invested with a crown and was therefore bound to be installed on the throne, anointed (king) under the title of Rājādhirājadēva in the fourth year (of his installation) and made the uḍankūṭṭam (assembly) and the nāḍu (chamber) follow him without any dissensions.”[3] This indicates : (1) that the prince selected by Rājarāja II for being crowned under the name of Rājādhirāja was Edirilipperumāḷ, the son of Neriyuḍaipperumāḷ and grandson of Uḍaiyār Vikramaśōladēvar. (2) that the selection was followed by the investiture of the crown during the life-time of Rājarāja II, and
(3) that in the fourth year of his installation, after the demise of Rājarāja II, he was again crowned under the title of Rājādhirāja (II). Thus are postulated (a) two coronations of Rājādhirāja II, one on his selection and the other in the fourth year of his reign on the demise of his predecessor, and (b) the death of Rājarāja II before the fourth year of the installation of the Yuvarāja. But the text of the inscription published does not warrant any of the above hypotheses. The text runs as follows : 10 Periyadēvar elundaru[ḷi] . . . .n[ā]ḷilē tiru-abhi[shēgattuk]ku uriya piḷḷaigaḷ inriye . . . [rukki]- 11 rapaḍiyai pārttu [mu]n-nāḷilē kāriyam irundapaḍi vi . . . . ś[e]ydu Gaṅgaika[ṇ*]ḍaśōlapura . . . . .daruḷi iru[k*]kira piḷḷaigaḷai . . . yāṇam paṇṇu . . . ḍaiyār Vikk[i]ramaśōladēvar pēranār 12 Neriyuḍaipperumā[ḷ*]-tirumaganār Edirilipperumāḷai=pperi . . . . [ji]-aruḷina nāḷilē maṇḍai kavi[p]pittu …dār-ānavārē ivarai=ttiru-abhi [shēgam paṇṇu]vikka=kkaḍavarā- [ga] . . . . . tu nālān=tiru-nakshatrattilē Rājādhirājadēvar e- _________________________________________________________ [1] The note is the outcome of a discussion initiated in 1947 by Mr. T. N. Subramaniam and continued intermittently for many months, in which Dr. N. Venkataramanayya, Mr. S. Vaiyapuri Pillai and Mr. A. V. Venkatarama Ayyar also participated.
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