South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

queen of the Bâṇa ’), the daughter of Pratipati-Araiyar, the son of Koṅguṇivarma-dharma-mahârâja, the supreme lord of Nipuṇilapura,^[1] alias Śrînâtha, the glorious Śivamahârâja-Perumânaḍigaḷ, (and the queen of) Vâṇavidyâdhararâja alias Vâṇarâja (i.e. the Bâṇa king Vâṇavidyâdhara), born from the family of Mahâbali.^[2]

661.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 46, p. 98. Tiruvallam (Bilvanâthêśvara temple) Tamil inscription, recording a gift by the queen of Vâṇavidyadhara-Vâṇarâya, born from the family of Mahâbali.[2]

662.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 39, No. II., and Plate ; Mysore Inscr. No. 164, p. 305, Gûlgânpode Sanskṛit and Kanarese memorial stone of the reign of the Bâṇa king Vikramâditya Jayamêru, surnamed Bâṇavidyâdhara (i.e. Vikramâditya I.).^[3]

663.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 75, and Plate. Udayêndiram fragmentary plates of the Bâṇa king Vikramâditya II. Vijayabâhu.

The Asura Bali ; his son Bâṇa ; in his lineage, Bâṇâdhirâja. When he and many other Bâṇa princes had passed away, ther was in this family Jayanandivarman, who ruled the land west of the Andhra country. His son Vijayâditya [I.] ; his son Malladêva Jagadêkamalla ; his son Bâṇavidyâdhara ; his son Prabhumêru ; his son Vikramâditya [I.] ; his son Vijayâditya [II.] Pugalvippavargaṇḍa ;^[4] his son Vikramâditya [II.] Vijayabâhu (was a friend of Kṛishṇarâja^[5]).

664.─ Ś. 810.─South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 44, p. 95. Tiruvallam (Bilvanâthêśvara temple) Tamil inscription,^[6] dated “ (during the reign of some) Mahâvali-Vâṇarâja, [born from the family of Mahâbali] … in the Śaka year eight hundred and ten.”

665.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 45, p. 96. Tiruvallam (Bilvanâthêśvara temple) Tamil inscription^[7] of the reign of some Mahâvali-Vâṇarâya, born from the family of Mahâbali.

666.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 39, No. I., and Plate ; Mysore Inscr. No. 163, p. 304. Gûlgânpode Kanarese memorial stone of the reign of some Mahâvali-Baṇarasa, born in the family of Mahâvali.

667.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 142, and Plate. Vaḷḷimalai Kanarese inscription ^[8] (in Grantha characters), recording that the image below which it is engraved represents a pupil of the spiritual preceptor of Bâṇarâya (or ‘ a king of the Bâṇa family ’).

668.─ Ś. 261.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 175. Muḍiyanûr (spurious^[9]) plates of the 23rd year (of the reign) of the Bâṇa king Śrîvadhûvallabha Malladêva-Nandivarman, ruler of the seven and a half lakh country in the Ândhra maṇḍala ; issued from Âvanyapura :─

(L. 23).─êkashashṭyuttara-dvayaśatê Śak-âbdaḥ pravarddhamân-âtmanaḥ trayôviṁśati varttamâna-Viḷambi-saṁvatsarê Kârttikâ(ka)-śuklapakshê trayôdaśyâṁ Sômavârê Aśvinyâṁ nakshatrê.

The date is irregular ; see ibid. Vol. XXIV. p. 10, No. 167.

The inscription mentions the Dânava Mahâbali, Nandivarman, and his son Vijayâditya.

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^[1] A mistake of the copyist for Kuvaḷâlapura.
^[2] See No. 659.
^[3] See No. 663.
^[4] I.e. ‘ the disgracer of vainglorious (kings) ; ’ compare below, No. 698.
^[5] I.e., probably, the Râshṭrakûṭa Kṛishṇarâja II. ; see above, No. 82 ff.
^[6] The inscription was copied from an earlier stone inscription.
^[7] The inscription apparently was copied from an earlier stone inscription.
^[8] Immediately above this inscription is another, short inscription in the Kanarese alphabet and language, recording that the image below which it is engraved was founded by (the Jaina preceptor) Ajjaṇandi, (Âryanandin) ; see Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 141, and Plate. The same personage (named Ajjanandi, the pupil of Bâlachandra) is mentioned in another Kanarese inscription, ibid. p. 142, and Plate facing p. 140.
^[9] See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 221, No. 47.─ The record is, least in part, a palimpsest.