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Prof. E. Hultzsch
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

No. 26.─ TSANDAVOLU INSCRIPTION OF BUDDHARAJA ;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1093.

BY. E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.

This inscription (No. 249 of 1897) is engraved on three faces of a pillar opposite the Liṅgôdbhavasvâmin temple at Tsandavôlu in the Rêpalle tâluka of the Kistna district. The alphabet is Telugu. The inscription consists of 13 Sanskṛit verses, a passage in Telugu prose (ll. 56 to 81), and two Sanskṛit verses at the end.

The inscription is dated at the winter-solstice (Saumyâyana, v. 13, or Uttarâyaṇa, l. 70 f.) in Śaka-Saṁvat 1093 (in numerical words, v. 13, and in figures, l. 70) and records the grant of a filed at Nâdiṇḍla (v. 13 and l. 72) and of a lamp to the Śiva temple of Paṇḍîśa (v. 13) or Paṇḍîśvara (ll. 69 and 79) at Dhanadapura (v. 13), Dhanadaprôlu (l. 69) or Dhanadavrôlu (l. 78 f.) in Velanâṇḍu (v. 13). Nâdiṇḍla is the modern Nâdeṇḍla in the Narasarâvupêṭa tâluka of the Kistna district.^[2] As stated before,^[3] Dhanadapura or Dhanadaprôlu is the modern Tsandavôlu, which was the capital of the chiefs of Velanâṇḍu.^[4] According to an inscription which is now built into the roof of the Liṅgôdbhavasvâmin temple, the temple of Paṇḍîśvara was named after one of the chiefs of Velanâṇḍu.^[5].

The donor of this inscription was Buddharâja (vv. 9, 12 and 13) or, in Telugu, the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Koṇḍapaḍmaṭi-Buddarâja (l. 67 f.), who bore the surnames Aniyaṅka-Bhîma (l. 60 f.), Eladâyasiṁha (l. 61 f.), and ‘ the lion of the mountain─ the Durjaya family’^[6]

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^[2] Above, Vol. IV. p. 37, and Vol. VI. pp. 111 and 115.
^[3] Above, Vol. IV. Additions and Corrections, p. v.
^[4] Ibid. p. 33.
^[5] Above, Vol. V. p. 151.
^[6] This was also a surname of the chief Nambaya ; see page 227 above. And the Kâkatîya king Gaṇapati traced his descent to an ancestor named Durjaya ; above, Vol. V. p. 142. Though Gaṇapati claims to be a descendant of the Sun, Manu and Raghu (Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 201, and above, Vol. V. p. 142), the Kâkatîyas must have belonged to the Śûdra caste, because they intermarried with Śûdra chiefs (above, Vol. III. p. 94, and Vol. VI. p. 147). In the Yenamadala inscription, which chronicles the marriage of Gaṇapâmbâ to
Bêta, both parties preserve a discreet silence regarding their Śûdra descent.

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