South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

608.─Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 25, and Plates ; PSOCI. No. 6. Halsî (now Dr. Fleet’s) plates of the Kadamba king Ravi (Ravivarman), recording grants and ordinances made at Palâśikâ. The inscription mentions the king’s predecessors Kâkusthavarman, Śântivarman, and Mṛigêśa.

609.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 29, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 8. Halsî (now Dr. Fleet’s) plates of the Kadamba king Ravi (Ravivarman) (who conquered Vishṇuvarman^[1] and other kings), residing at Palâśikâ.

610.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 28, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 7. Halsî (now Dr. Fleet’s) plates of the 11th year of the reign of the Kadamba Dharmamahârâja Ravivarman, the son of Mṛigêśa who was the eldest son of Śântivarman, the son of Kâkustha ; recording donations made by Ravivarman’s younger brother Bhânuvarman, at Palâśikâ :─

(L. 11).─ pravarddhamânarâjya-śrî-Ravivarmma-dharmmamahârâjasya êkâdaśê saṁvatsarê hêmanta-shashṭha-pakshê daśamyâm tithau.

611.─Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 30, and Plate ; PSOCI. No.9. Halsî (now Dr. Fleet’s) plates of 4th year of the reign of the Kadamba Mahârâja Harivarman, recording donations made by him at the advice of his paternal uncle Śivaratha ; issued at Uchchaśṛiṅgî :─

(L. 6).─ svarâjya-saṁvatsarê chaturtthê Phâlguṇa(na)-śukla-trayôdaśyâm.

612.─Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 31, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 10. Halsî (now Dr. Fleet’s) plates of the 5th year of the reign of the Kadamba Mahârâja Harivarman, the son of the Mahârâja Ravivarman, recording donations made at the request of king Bhânuśakti of the family of the Sêndrakas ; issued at Palâśikâ :─

(L. 8).─ svarâjya-saṁvatsarê pañchamê.

613.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 33, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 1. Dêvagêri plates of the Yuvarâja Dêvavarman, son of the Kadamba Dharmamahârâja Kṛishṇavarman [I. ?] ; issued at Triparvata.

614.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 18, and Plate. Bannahaḷḷi (now Haḷêbîḍ) plates of the 7th year of the reign of the Kadamba Mahârâja Kṛishṇavarman II., the son of the Mahârâja Siṁhavarman, who was a son of the Dharmamahârâja Vishṇuvarman,^[2] who was begotten by the Dharmamahârâja Kṛishṇavarman I. on a daughter of Kaikêya :─

(L. 13).─ varddhamâna-vijayarâjya-saṁvatsarê saptamê Kârttika-mâsê âpûryyamâṇa-pakshê pañchamyâṁ Jyêshṭhâ-nakshatrê.

615.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 93. Koṇṇûr rock inscription of the Kadamba king Dâmôdara.

L.─ The Pallavas, Gaṅga-Pallavas, Bâṇas and Gaṅga-Bâṇas.[3]

616.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 101, and Plate. Guṇṭûr district (formerly Sir W. Elliot’s, now British Museum) Prâkṛit plates[4] of the queen of the Pallava Yuvamahârâja Vijaya-Buddhavarman, of the reign of the Mahârâja Vijaya-Skandavarman :─ (L. 1).─ Siri-Vijayakhandavamma-mahârâjassa saṁvvachhara . . .

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^[1] Perhaps the Vishṇuvarman of No. 614. See also Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 322.
^[2] For (Bîrûr spurious ?) plates of the Dharmamahârâja Vishṇuvarman, the eldest son of Dharmamahârâja-Kṛishṇavarman, recording a grant made with the permission of Vishṇuvarman’s father’s eldest brother (jyêshṭha-pitṛi), the Dharmamahârâja Śântivaravarman, see Ep. Carn. Vol. VI. p. 91, No. 162, and Plates.
^[3] Nos. 616-643 ; 644-658 ; 659-668 ; and 669-671.
^[4] The three plates are numbered (wrongly) with numerical symbols.─ Compare also Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 2,
notes.