South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva (i.e. the Chôḷa king Vikrama-Chôḷa) :^[1]─

‘ In the 4th year . . . on the day of Śatabhishaj, which corresponded to a Monday and to the eighth tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Ṛishabha.’

[Ś. 1044] : Monday, 1st May A.D. 1122 ; see ibid. Vol. VII. p. 3.

795.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. No. 68, p. 310. Tanjore (Râjarâjêśvara temple) Tamil inscription of the 4th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarman alias the Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva.─ The historical introduction records that in his youth the king put to flight the Teliṅga Vîman (Bhîma)^[2] of Kuḷam and burnt the country of Kaliṅga, stayed in Vêṅgai-maṇḍalam, conquered the North and then proceeded to the South, where he crowned himself (as Chôḷa king). The inscription mentions his queens Mukkôkkiḷânaḍi^[3] and Tyâgapatâkâ.

796.─ South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. No. 33, p. 75. Maṇimaṅgalam (Râjagôpâla-Perumâḷ temple) damaged Tamil inscription of the 4th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarman alias the Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva.─ The historical introduction, so far as it is preserved, agrees with that of No. 795.

797.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 263, No. 22. Date of a Tiruveṇgâḍu (Śvêtâraṇyêśvara temple) Tamil inscription of the 5th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarman alias the Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva :─

‘ In the 5th year . . . on the day of Ȃrdrâ, which corresponded to a Monday and to the eleventh tithi of the second fortnight of the month of Siṁha.’

[Ś. 1044] : Monday, 31st July A.D. 1122 ; see ibid. Vol. VII. p. 3.

798.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 3, No. 57. Date in a Tiruvârûr (Tyâgarâja temple) Tamil inscription of the 5th year (of the reign) of the Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva :─

‘ In the fifth year . . . on a Thursday which corresponded to (the day of) Maghâ and to the fifth tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mithuna.’

[Ś. 1045] : Thursday, 31st May A.D. 1123.

799.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 73, No. 10. Another date in the same Tiruvârûr (Tyâgarâja temple) Tamil inscription, of the 340th day of the 5th year (of the reign) of king Parakêsarivarmanalias the Tribhuvanachakravartin, the glorious Vikrama-Chôḷadêva :─ ‘ In the fifth year . . . on the three-hundred-and-fortieth day, which was (the day of) Hasta, a Sunday, and the seventh tithi of the first fortnight of the month of Mithuna.’

[Ś. 1045] : Sunday, 3rd June A.D. 1123 ; but the tithi which ended on this day was the 8th, not the 7th ; see ibid. Vol. VII. p. 4.

800.─ Ś. 1049.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 225. Chêbrôlu (Kêśavasvâmin temple) Telugu inscription of the 9th year of the reign of the Chôḷa Mahârâjâdhirâja Tribhuvanachakravartin Vikrama-Chôḷa, recording a grant by the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Nambaya,^[4] ‘ lord of the town of Kollipâkâ,’ of the Durjaya family :─

(L. 12).─ . . . pravardda(rddha)mâna-vijayarâjya-saṁvatsaraṁbulu 9agunê[ṇṭi] Sa(śa)ka-[va]rushaṁbulu 1049agu Shla(Pla)va-^[5]saṁvatsara Jêshṭa-^[6]mâsa sômagrahana(ṇa)-nimityamuna.

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^[1] The accession of Vikrama-Chôḷa took place on (approximately) the 29th June A.D. 1118 ; see Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p.8
^[2] According to Dr. Hultzsch apparently one of the Nâyakas of Ellore.─ Compare below, No. 833.
^[3] Compare below, Nos. 801 and 812.
^[4] For an inscription of the same Nambaya (Nambirâja, Nambha) of Ś. 1052 (for 1053) see Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 224 ; for one of his son Trailôkyamalla of Ś. 1081 (for 1082) ibid. p. 225 ; the name of Nambaya’s father most probably was Malla.
^[5] Wrong for Plavaṅga-.
^[6] Read Jyêshṭha- or Jyaishṭha-.