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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (L. 6)─ Those (villages) are as follows :─ Bempûru ; Tovagûru, Pûvina-Pullimaṅgala, and Kûtanidu-Nallûru ; Nallûru-Komaraṅgundu ; Iggalûru ; Dugmonelmalli and Galañjavâgilu ; Sâraṁvu (?) ; Elkuppe, Paravûru, and Kûḍâl. This much, with (a specification of) the boundaries of the fields, gave Ereyapa to his follower, the Nâgattara. May there be auspicious and great good fortune ! C.─ Âtakûr inscription of Kṛishṇa III. and Bûtuga II.─ A.D. 949-50. This inscription was first brought to notice by Mr. Rice in 1889, in his Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, Introd. p. 19, note 10, and p. 21. A rendering of it by myself, from an inked estampage sent to me by Dr. Hultzsch, was issued in 1892, in Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 167. And a rendering of it by Mr. Rice, with a lithograph, was published in 1894, in his Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Md. 41. I give now a more final rendering of it from a better ink-impression, for which I am again indebted to Dr. Hultzsch. The collotype is from the ink-impression. The photo-etching is from a photograph of the stone itself ; owing to the bad light in which the stone stands, it fails to shew much of the writing, though it presents the sculptures clearly enough. Âtakûr,─ or, perhaps, according to a more recent custom, Âtagûr,─ is a village about fifteen miles to the N. E. by E. from Maṇḍya, the head-quarters of the Maṇḍya tâluka of the Mysore district. It is shown in the Indian Atlas, sheet No. 60, S.E. (1894), as ‘ Atgur,’ in lat. 12º 39′, long. 77º 7′ ; and it is shewn as ‘ Atagur’ in the map that accompanies the revised edition of Mr. Rice’s Mysore, Vol. II.; in the old sheet No. 60 (1828), however, it is shewn as ‘ Atcoor,’ which answers of the spelling given in Mr. Rice’s Ep. Carn. Vol. III., and to what is probably still the more usual form of the name. With the slight difference of u for a in the second syllable, the record mentions it as Âtukûr. And the record shews also that it was the chief village of a circle known as the Âtukûr twelve. The inscription is on a stone tablet, measuring about 5′ 1″ broad towards the bottom by about 6′ 8″ high, which was found set up in front of a temple known as that of the god Challêśaliṅga,─ the Challêśvara of the record itself,─ about a quarter of a mile to the north of the village, and is now in the Mysore Government Museum at Bangalore.
The chief part of the writing consists of nineteen lines, covering an area about 5′ 1″ broad (in line 19) by 4′ 0″ high, which run right across the lower part of the stone. But there is a subsidiary record, lines 20 to 24, on the upper part of the stone, in the margins that were left above and on each side of the sculptures belonging to the principal part of the record : lines 20 and 21 run up the proper right margin, along the top, and down the proper left margin ; line 22 is a short line on the proper right margin, below the beginning of line 21 ; and lines 23 and 24 are short lines on the proper left margin, commencing below, respectively, the nna of Kannara and the ṅga of Bûtugaṅga of line 21. The writing is in a fairly good state of preservation throughout ; and the whole of the record can be read with certainty, with the exception of the akshara before Tri[ṇê]tran, line 3, and perhaps of the word âpa[ghâ]ta in line 7.─ The sculptures on the stone cover an area about 3′ 2″ broad by 1′ 6″ high. They represent a hound and a boar fighting ; and they refer to an incident mentioned in lines 10 and 11 of the record.─ The characters are Kanarese, boldly formed and well executed, of the regular type of the period to which the record refers itself. The size of them ranges from about 1″ in the la of Chôlane, line 16, to about 1½″ in the ma of â maṇṇan, line 13 : the mba of emba, line 19, is 2¾″ high ; and the ka of Śûdrakaṁ, in the same line, is 2½″ high vertically and 3″ on the slant. The
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