South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

lessen by an index which will give all dated inscriptions arranged in the order of the Śaka years. Another index is to contain most of the proper names which occur in this list.

While doing this work, I often have found cause to regret that I know so little of the vernaculars of Southern India, and I fear that this list must suffer through this want of knowledge on my part. I nevertheless venture to hope that what I offer now will at least save some trouble to others who are interested in Indian Epigraphy.

A.- The Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi.^[1]

1.-S. 310.- Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 294. Pimpaḷnêr (spurious[2]) plates[3] of the W. Chalukya^[4] Mahârâjâdhirâja Satyâśraya (Pulakêsin I.?) :-

(L. 1).─Śakanṛipakâl-âtîta-samvatsara-śatêshu tṛi(tri)shu daś-ôttarêshv=asyâ[ṁ*] sam- vatsara-mâsa-paksha-divasa-pûrvvâyân=tithau.

(L. 35).-sûryagrahaṇa-parvvaṇi.

2.─Ś. 411*.─ Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 211, and Plates in Vol. VIII. p. 340. Aḷtêṁ^[5] (formerly Captain T. B. Jervis’s, now British Museum, spurious^[6]) plates of the W. Châlukya Mahârâjâdhirâja Pulakêśin I. Satyâśraya, the son of Raṇarâga who was the son of Jayasiṁha I.; and of his feudatory Sâmiyâra, the son of Sivâra who was the son of the Râjâ Goṇḍa, of the Rundranîḷa-Saindraka family (or Rundraniḷa and Saindraka families) :─

(L. 28).─Śakanṛip-âbdêshv=êkâdaś-ôttarêshu chatuś-śatêshu vyatîtêshu Vibhava- saṁvatsarê pravarttamânê . . . Vaiśâkh-ôdita-pûrṇṇa-puṇya-divasê Râhô(hau) vidhau(dhôr=) maṇḍalaṁ ślêsbṭê (?).

(L. 35).-Vaiśâkha-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ Râhau vidhu-maṇḍaḷa[ṁ*] pravishṭavati. 12th April A.D. 488 ; a lunar eclipse, not visible in India ; but see ibid. Vol. XXIV. p. 10, No. 164.

The inscription records the building of a Jaina temple and the allotment of certain grants to it, and gives the line of Jaina teachers Siddhanandhin, Chitakâchârya, Nâgadêva, and Jinanandin.

3.-S. 500.-Ind. Ant. Vol. III. p. 305, and Plate ; Vol. VI. p. 363, and Plate in Vol. X. p. 58 ; PSOCI. No. 39. Bâdâmi cave inscription of the W. Chalukya^[7] Maṅgalêśvara Raṇavikrânta, of the 12th year of the reign (of his elder brother Kîrtivarman I.):-

(L. 6).─ pravarddhamâna-râjya-saṁvvatsarê dvâdaśê Śakanṛipati¬-râjyâbhiśeka- saṁvvatsarêshv=atikrântêshu pañchasu śatêshu . . .

(L. 11).─mahâ-Kârttika-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ.

4.- Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 60, and Plate ; PSOCI. No. 40. Bâdâmi Kanarese rock inscription of the W. Chalukya^[4] Maṅgalêsa.

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^[1] For the W. Chalukyas of Gujarât see my List of North. Inscr. Nos. 398, 400, 401 and 404. Of the (unpublished) Balsâr plates, dated in Ś. 653, of the Jayâśraya-Maṅgaḷarasarâja (also called Vinayâditya and Yuddhamalla) who is mentioned ibid. No. 404, an account is given in Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 5, and Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 75.─ In Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. XX. p. 42 is published a Sanjân copper-plate inscription which professes to be of the time of the W. Chalukya Vikramâditya I. and to record a grant by his paternal uncle Buddhavarasa, the younger brother of Satyâśraya (Pulakêśin II.). I hope that this inscription may be re-edited with a facsimile. (For th name Buddhavarasa see below, No. 67.)
^[2] See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 216, No. 25.
^[3] The third plate is numbered with the numeral figure 3.
^[4] The name Chalukya or Châlukya does not occur in the inscription.
^[5] See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIX. P. 273.
^[6]See ibid. Vol. XXX. p. 218, No. 35.
^[7] The original has Chalkya.