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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA suffixes śakti, jīya, śiva and rāśi were generally affixed to the names of the more extremist sects of the Śaiva school.[1] Although therefore most of the Brāhmaṇas participating in the dīkshā of Vikramāditya I, including his preceptor Sudarśana, thus appear to have belonged to the more moderate and rational school of Śaivism, a few of them were ascetics of the extremist orders. This fact again seems to suggest that there was no general antagonism between the sober and extremist sects of the followers of Śiva at least in the Kannaḍa country during the seventh century A. D. Of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, Vanavāsī and Uttarāpatha are wellknown. As suggested by Sarma, the village of Marrūra, where the king was staying at the time of making the grant, may be one of the two localities called Chinna Marrūru and Pedda Marrūru on the bank of the Krishna in the present Kollapuram Taluk of the Mahbubnagar District. There is a ruined temple at Chinna Marrūru. It seems that the king visited the village for his initiation ceremony and that Sudarśanāchārya was a resident of the said locality. The name of the Vaṁguravāḍi vishaya seems to be preserved in that of the modern village called Vāṁgūru in the Kalvaparti Taluk of the same District, about 40 miles from the villages called Marrūru. Pandit Sarma who published the inscription in the Bhārati is inclined to identify Iparuṁkal with the present village of Vīpanagaṁḍla about 10 miles from the localities named Marrūru.
[Metres : verses 1, 3-5 Anushṭubh ; verse 2 Ārya.] First plate
1 Jayaty=āvishkṛitaṁ Vishṇōr=vvārāhaṁ ksh[ōbhit-ārṇṇa]vaṁ(vam |) dakshiṇ-ō-
nnata-daṁ-
Second Plate, First Side
8 vitrīkrita-gātrasya śrī-Pōlikēśi-vallabha-mahārājasya
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[1] Op. cit., p. 171.
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