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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA would give him the convenient opportunity of doing what the spurious Maṇṇe grant asserts that he did, namely, of joining in the coronation of Śivamâra II. And in the fourth place, it is not unlikely that we shall find, hereafter, that the Gaṅga prince who was imprisoned by Dhruva, was released from long captivity and sent back to his own country by Gôvinda III., and then after no long time was imprisoned again by the latter king, was, not Śivamâra II., but Śrîpurusha-Muttarasa,─ the fresh act of pride and opposition, which led to the second captivity, being the assumption by him of the paramount titles some time after his twenty-ninth year ; and, if so, Śivamâra II. would have to be placed somewhat later than the period that I have proposed for him. On the other hand, some evidence in support of the existence of a Śivamâra who may be taken as a son of Śrîpurusha-Muttarasa, is furnished by an inscription at Sivarpaṭṇa,[1] which mentions a Śivamâra who was governing the village of Kadabûr, Kaḍabûr, or possibly Kadambûr or Kaḍambûr, under Śrîpurusha-Muttarasa and in perhaps his twenty-ninth year,─ (this record, however, does not assert any relationship),─ and by a spurious inscription, or a record into which a spurious date has been introduced in putting it on the stone, at Kalbhâvi in the Beḷgaum District,[2] which mentions a Gaṅga prince named Saigoṭṭa-Śivamâra, and preserves also the name of Kambharasa, as another variant of the name of the Raṇâvalôka-Kambayya of one of the Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa records[3] and other documents, who was contemporaneous with Gôvinda III. And also, though for the line of descent from Śivamâra II. we are yet dependent on only the Udayêndiram grant of the Gaṅga-Bâṇa prince Hastimalla-Pṛithivîpati II., of A.D. 915 or thereabouts,[4]─ a record the value of which has still to be examined critically,─ still, items of information, tending to corroborate that line of descent, are beginning to come to light : a Tamil inscription at Tiruvallam mentions a Śivamahârâja-Perumânaḍigaḷ and his son Pratipati-Araiyar,[5] whom Dr. Hultzsch has very reasonably proposed to identify with the Śivamâra and his son Pṛithivîpati I. who are mentioned in the grant of A.D. 915 ; and the Hirî-Bidanûr inscription[6] mentions, as a contemporary of Vîra-Noḷamba son of Ayyapadêva, ─ (who would come about A.D. 940 to 950),─ a certain Nanniya-Gaṅga son of a Gaṅga prince Pilduvipati (which name also is evidently a form of Pṛithivîpati, as pointed out by Mr. Rice), and the synchronisms justify us in finding in this Pilduvipati the Hastimalla-Pṛithivîpati II. of A.D. 909 and 915. According, this entry also,─ Śivamâra II., about A.D. 805 to 810,─ may be allowed to stand for the present as it is.
The son, or another son, of Śrîpurusha-Muttarasa was Raṇavikrama ; and Raṇavikrama’s son was Râjamalla. We learn this from the Vaḷḷimalai inscription,[7] which may have omitted to mention Śivamâra II., either because there was really no such person, or because he did not rule, or because it sought to give only the actual lineal descent from father to son. Râjamalla may be safely identified with the ruling prince who is mentioned in the Husukûru inscription[8] by the proper name of Râjamalla, as well as the appellation of Satyavâkya, and with the date of Śaka-Saṁvat 792 (expired), = A.D. 870-71, without any details of the month, etc. He can be carried on, without objection, to that date. But he cannot be placed any later, if only for the reason that the Biḷiûr inscription shews that a rule─ of a Satyavâkya (proper name
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