South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Mayûravarman I. to that of Âdityavarman,─ which is put forward in the Kargudari inscription of A.D. 1108.^[1] The alleged genealogy of the Western Gaṅgas of Taḷakâḍ, as presented in the spurious records, is a genealogy of this same kind, without a Purâṇic introduction. A Purâṇic introduction was eventually prefixed to it. And, as far as is disclosed at present, in genuine records,─ that is to say, in records which contain all that fabulous matter, but put it forward bonâ fide, as a story that had come to be really believed, and without using it fraudulently,─ the fictitious historical pedigree and the Purâṇic introduction, both together, first appear in records of the eleventh century A.D. at ‘ Purale,’ Humcha, and ‘ Kallur Gudda ’ in Mysore.^[2] The Purâṇic introduction seems to have been invented in that century. We shall consider, on another occasion, the period to which the inception of the fictitious historical pedigree may be carried back.

POSTSCRIPT.

I subjoin a few supplementary remarks which suggested themselves after this paper had gone into pages.

Page 53, text line 3, and note 7. The reading a[ṅka]-Tri[ṇê]tran may be accept ; see some remarks under Kṛishṇa III., in a note on the appellations of the Râshṭrakûṭa king, which will be given in a subsequent article in this volume.

Page 57, note 8. Another instance of the occurrence of aṅkakâra in a biruda the first component of which is not a proper name, is Chaladaṅkakâra, “ the champion of firmness of character,” in the case of the Râshṭrakûṭa prince Indra IV. (Inscrs. at Śrav.- Beḷ. No. 57, verses 5, 6).

Page 71, line 24. The date of A.D. 953 for Bûtuga II. is supplied by an inscription at Chiñchli in the Gadag tâluka ; see some remarks under Kṛishṇa III. in the place referred to above.

Page 72, line 2. It may be added that the killing of Pañchala in battle at the command of Nûrmaḍi-Taila II. is attributed to the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Âhavamalla-Bhûteyadêva or Bhûtiga, whose descendant Barma was governing the Lôkâpura twelve and other circles, at Toragal, in A.D. 1187, in the time of Sômêśvara IV.; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 96, text lines 4 to 6 (the verse has not been well translated). I am indebted to Professor Kielhorn for drawing my attention to this reference.

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^[1] Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 249 ; and see Dyn. Kan. Distrs. pp. 559, 560.
^[2] See Mr. Rice’s Mysore, revised edition, Vol. I. p. 308 ff.; also, his Annual Report for the year ending 31st March, 1891, which gives the date of the Humcha record as Śaka-Saṁvat 999 (expired),= A.D. 1077-78.