South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

642.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p.26. Taṇḍalam Tamil rock inscription^[1] of the 10th year (of the reign) of Śatti (Śakti), the king of the Kâḍavas, i.e. Pallava, recording the building of a sluice :─

‘ In (the year) twice five (i.e. ten), which was engraved on palm-leaves, from the year when (the name of) Śatti, the king of the Kâḍavas, was entered on a gold leaf.’^[2]

643.─ Mysore Inscr. No. 115, p. 212 ; PSOCI. No. 226. Nandi (Bhôga-Nandi) Kanarese inscription of a Pallava Nolambâdhirâja.^[3]

644.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 51, and Plate. Râyakôṭa (formerly Sir W. Elliot’s, now British Museum ?) Sanskṛit and Tamil plates^[4] of the 14th year (of the reign) of [the Gaṅga-Pallava] Skandaśishya (king Vijaya-Skandaśishyavikramavarman), recording a grant made at the request of (his feudatory) Mahâvali-Vâṇarâja.^[5]

Mythical genealogy from Brahman to Aśvatthâman ; his son (?) by a Nâga woman was the Adhirâja Skandaśishya ; in his family was born the Skandaśishya who issued this grant.

645.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 360, and Plate. Kîḷ-Muṭṭugûr (now Madras Museum) Tamil memorial stone of the 3rd year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasiṁhavarman.

646.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 178, and Plate facing p. 182. Kîḷ-Muṭṭugûr (now Madras Museum) Tamiḷ inscription of the 18th year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasiṁhavarman.

647.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 23, and Plate. Baṅgavâdi Tamil memorial stone of the 24th year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasiṁhavikramavarman, recording the death of a servant of a Bâṇa chief named Skanda (Skanda-Bâṇâdhirâja).

648.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 321, and Plate. Śîyamaṅgalam Tamil cave inscription of the 3rd year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman,^[6] recording the building of a maṇḍapa by a certain person with the permission of a Gaṅga chief named Nêrguṭṭi, who must have been subordinate to Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.

649.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 43, p. 93. Tiruvallam (Bilvanâthêśvara temple) Tamil inscription^[7] of the 17th year^[8] (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, recording a grant which was made at the request of Mâvali-Vâṇarâya alias Vikkiramâditta-Vâṇarâya (i.e. according to Dr. Hultzsch, probably the Bâṇa king Vikramâditya I. of No. 663).

650.─South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. No. 108, p. 130. Notice of a Śaduppêri (near Vêlûr) fragmentary Tamiḷ inscription of the 52nd year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.^[9]

651.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 42, page 91, and Plate. Tiruvallam Tamil rock inscription of the 62nd year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, “ while the

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^[1] According to Dr. Hultzsch perhaps of about the second half of the 9th century A.D.
^[2] “ This seems to refer to some custom observed at the coronation of a king.”
^[3] See Dr. Fleet’s Dynasties, p. 332.
^[4] The alphabet according to Dr. Hultzsch is more developed than that of Nos. 628 and 635, but more archaic
than that of No. 670.
^[5] An hereditary designation of the Bâṇa chiefs.
^[6] Identical with Nandivarman, the father of Vijaya-Nṛipatuṅgavarman in No. 652.
^[7] The inscription with professes to be a copy of a stone inscription which existed before the maṇḍapa of the temple had been pulled down and re-erected.
^[8] For another inscription of the 17th year of the same king see below, under Addenda.
^[9] For inscriptions of the 9th and 47th years of the same king see South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. Nos. 124 and 125, p. 133.