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South Indian Inscriptions

 

 

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Dr. Bhandarkar

J.F. Fleet

Prof. E. Hultzsch

Prof. F. Kielhorn

Prof. H. Luders

J. Ramayya

E. Senart

J. PH. Vogel

Index-By V. Venkayya

Appendix

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Annual Reports 1935-1944

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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

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Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

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Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

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Early Gupta Inscriptions

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

92.─Ś. 855.─Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 249, and Plates. Sâṅglî (now Sâwantwâḍî) plates[1] of the Râshṭrakûṭa Mahârâjâdhirâja Gôvindarâja IV. Suvarṇavarsha (described as) the successor of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Nityavarsha (Indrarâja III.), residing at Mânyakhêṭa :─

(L. 44.)─Śakanṛipakâl-âtîta-saṁvatsara-śatêshv=ashṭasu paṁchapaṁchâśad-adhikêshv= aṁkatô=pi saṁvatsarâṇâṁ 855 pravarttamâna-Vijaya-saṁvatsar-âṁtarggata-Śrâvaṇa-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ vârê Gurôḥ Pûrvvâbhadrapadâ-nakshattrê.

Thursday, 8th August A.D. 933 ; see ibid. Vol. XXIII. p. 114, No. 8.

Genealogy, etc., substantially as in No. 91.

93.─Ś. 862.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 192, and Plate. Dêôlî (in Wardhâ district) plates of the Râshṭrakûṭa Mahârâjâdhirâja Kṛishṇarâja III. Akâlavarsha, the successor of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Amôghavarsha III., recording a grant made for the spiritual benefit of the king’s younger brother Jagattuṅga III. ; issued from Mânyakhêṭa :─

(L. 47).─Śakanṛipakâl-âtita-saṁva[tsa]ra-śatêshv=ashṭâsu dvisha[shṭy-a]dhikê[shu] Śârvvari-saṁ[vatsar-â]ntarggata-Vaiśâkha-va(ba)hula-pañchanyâṁ(myâṁ).

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In the lunar race, in Yadu’s family, there was the god Vishṇu-Kṛishṇa ; and kings of that family became known as Tuṅgas, belonging to the Sâtyaki branch of it ; in their lineage, Raṭṭa ; after him, named after his son Râshṭrakûṭa, the Râshṭrakûṭa family. From that family sprang Dantidurga ; his paternal uncle Kṛishṇarâja [I.] ; his son Gôvindarâja [II.] ; his younger brother Nirupama Kalivallabha [Dhruvarâja] ; his son Jagattuṅga [I. Gôvindarâja III.] ; his son Nṛipatuṅga [Amôghavarsha I.] (founded Mânyakhêṭa) ; his son Kṛishṇarâja [II.] ; his son Jagattuṅga [II.] (did not reign) ; his son Indrarâja [III.] ; his son Amôghavarsha [II.] ; his younger brother Gôvindarâja [IV.]. After him, the son of Jagattuṅga II., Amôghavarsha [III. Baddiga] ; his son Kṛishṇarâja [III.] (slew Dantiga and Vappuka ;[2] in Gaṅgapâṭî deposed Rachhyâmalla, i.e. Râchamalla I.,[3] and put in his place Bhûtârya, i.e. Bûtuga II.; he also defeated the Pallava Aṇṇiga).

94.─Ś. 867.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 60, and Plate. Sâlôṭgi (now Iṇḍî) pillar inscription[4] of the reign of Kṛishṇarâja III. Akâlavarsha, the son of Amôghavarsha III., residing at Mânyakhêṭa :─

(L. 3).─Śaka-kâlâd=gat-âbdânâṁ sa-saptâdhikashashṭishu śatêshv=ashṭasu tâvatsu samânâm=aṅkatô=pi cha | Varttamânê Plavaṁg-âbdê . . .

(L. 45).─Pûrvv-ôktê varttamân-âbdê mâsê Bhâdrapadê=ṁchitê pitṛi-parvvaṇi tasy=aiva Kujavârêṇa saṁyutê sûryyagrahaṇa-kâlê tu madhya-gê cha divâkarê.

Tuesday, 9th September A.D. 945 ; a solar eclipse, visible in India ; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 123, No. 61 ; and Vol. XXV. p. 269.

95.─Ś. 872*.─Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 171 ; Ep. Carn. Vol. III. p. 92, No. 41, and Plate ; Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 53, and Plates. Âtakûr (now Bangalore Museum) Kanarese inscription of the time of Kṛishṇarâja III. Kannaradêva[5] (who killed in battle at Takkôla the Chôḷa Mûvaḍi-Chôḷa Râjâditya[6]) and of the W. Gaṅga Permânaḍi Bûtuga II. Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarman-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja, ‘ lord of Kôḷâla,’ ‘ lord of Nandagiri : ’─

(L. 1).─ Sa(śa)kanri(nṛi)pakkal-âtita-sa[ṁ]vatsava-s(śa)taṅgaḷ=eṇṭu-nûr-[e]lpatt-[e]raḍa-neya Śô(sau)myam=emba sa[ṁ]vatsaraṁ pravarttise.

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[1] Compare Ind. Ant. Vol. XXXI. p. 219.
[2] Below, in No. 98, the name is Vappuga.
[3] See No. 96.
[4] The pillar besides contain two Kanarese inscriptions, one (ibid. p. 63) of about the period to which the above Sanskṛit inscription belongs, and the other (ibid. p. 65) of the 11th or 12th century A.D. The former records grants of a certain Kañchiga of the Seḷara race ; and the latter a grant of the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Gô[v]uṇarasa of the Śiḷahâra race.
[5] Described as a bee on the waterlilies that were the feet of Amôghavarshadêva [III.] ; see No. 93.
[6] See below, Nos. 127 and 712.

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