South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

958.─ Kollam 578.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XXV. pp. 187 and 188. Translation of a Padmanâbhapuram (Âlvâr temple) Sanskṛit and Tamil inscription of the Kêraḷa king Vîra-Kêraḷa Mârtâṇḍavarman of Kîlappêrûr :─

‘ In the Kollam year 578, the sun being 26 days old^[1] in Mêsham, on Saturday, new moon, [the lunar mansion being] Bharaṇî.^[2]

[Ś. 1325] : Saturday, 21st April A.D. 1403.

959.─ Kollam 644.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 360. Inscription on a bell, given to a temple at Tirukuraṅguḍi by a prince Âdityavarman, ruler of Vañchî,^[3] of the lineage of Jayasiṁha :[4]─ Śrîmat-Kôlanba-varshê bhavati.[5] [Kollam 644 = Ś. 1390-91.]

960.─ Kollam 654.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 361. Śuchîndram inscription of a prince Râmavarman, ruler of Vañchî :^[3]─

Abdê Kôlaṁba-saṁjñê viśati[6] Gavi Gurau mitra-yâtê(?) Tul-ântyê(?) Maitrê(trar)kshê s-Ênduvârê pratipadi Vanitâ-lagnakê.

[Ś. 1400] : Monday, 26th October A.D. 1478 ; see ibid. Vol. XXV. p. 56, No. 15.

961.─ Kollam 655.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 204. Varkkalai inscription of Mârtâṇḍa :─ (L.1).─Kôḷambê mamat=^[7]êti vatsara itê mâsê Vṛish-ârddhê Gurôr=vvârê bhê Mṛigaśîrshakê Vidhi-tithau Siṁhê cha lagnê śubhê.

[Ś. 1402] : Thursday, 11th May A.D. 1480.

962.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. III. p. 68, and Plate. Cochin (Jews’) Tamil plates of Kôgônmaikoṇḍân,^[8] His Majesty the king, the glorious Bhâskara Ravivarman, staying at Muyirikkôḍu,[9] recording a grant made to Ȋssuppu Irappân (i.e. Joseph Rabbân) ; dated─

‘ in the thrity-sixth year opposite the second year.’

963.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 290, And Plate. Tirunelli (now Colonel Wooldridge’s) Tamil plates of His Majesty king Bhâskara Ravivarman, containing an order by his feudatory Śaṁkara-Kôdavarman of Puraigilânâḍu ; dated─

‘ in the forty-sixth year opposite the current year … in the month of Makara, when Jupiter was standing in Siṁha, in the above year.’

964.─ Madras Jour. Lit. Sc. Vol. XIII. Part I. p. 123. Koṭṭayam (Syrian Christians’) Tamil plates of king Sthâṇu Ravi,^[10] dates^[11]─

‘ in the fifth year which was current within the time during which king … was reigning . . . in this year.’

965.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 295, and Plate. Kôṭṭayam (Syrian Christians’) Tamil plate of Vîra-Râghava-Chakravartin, a descendant of Vîra-Kêraḷa-Chakravartin :─

‘ On the day of Rôhiṇî, a Saturday on which passed[12] (the day) twenty-one (of) the month Mîna, (when) Jupiter (was) in Makara, while the glorious Vîra-Râghava-Chakravartin . . . was ruling prosperously.’

[Ś. 1241] : Saturdy, 15th March A.D 1320 ; see ibid. Vol. VI. p. 83.

^[1] I.e. ‘on the 26th solar day.’
^[2] In the Sanskṛit part of the inscription the date is assigned to Ś. 1325 (Śakhâlôka)
^[3] I.e. Vañji ; see above, No. 834.
^[4] Compare above, No. 939.
^[5] I.e. 644.
^[6] I.e. 654.
^[7] I.e.655.
^[8] I.e. ‘ he who had assumed the title “ king of kings.” ’
^[9] In the Hebrew translation (in the possession of the Cochin Jews) identified with Koḍuṅṅallûr (Cranganore),
^[10] See Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 291, note 5.
^[11] See Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 287.
^[12] I owe the literal translation of the date to Dr. Hultzsch.