South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Genealogy as far as Bhûvikrama substantially as in No. 115 ; his son^[1] Śivamâra [I.] ; his son Śrîpurusha Koṅguṇivrama-dh.^[2]; his son Śivamâra [II.] Koṅguṇivarma-dh. Saigoṭṭa ; his younger brother Vijayâditya ; his son Râjamalla [I.] Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dh. ; his son Eregaṅga [I.] Nîtimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-dh. ; his son Râjamalla [II.] Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dh. ; his younger brother Bûtuga [I.] Guṇaduttaraṅga (married Abbalabbâ, a daughter of [the Râshṭrakûṭa] Amôghavarsha [I.]) ; his son Eregaṅga [II.] Nîtimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-dh., also called Komara-veḍeṅga (‘whose forehead was adorned with the paṭṭabandha of, or by, Ereyappa’) ; his son Narasiṅgha Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dh., also called Vîra-veḍeṅga ; his son Râjamalla (?) [III.] Nîtimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-dh., also called Kachcheya-Gaṅga ; his younger brother Bûtuga [II.] Satyanîtivâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dh., also called Nanniya-Gaṅga, Jayaduttaraṅga, Gaṅga-Nârâyaṇa, etc. (married a daughter of Baddega, i.e. the Râshṭrakûṭa Amôghavarsha III., at Tripurî in Ḍahâḷa ; on the death of Baddega secured the kingdom for [the Râshṭrakûṭa] Kṛishṇarâja [III.] ; caused fear to Kakkarâja of Aḷachapura, Bijja-Dantivarman of Banavâsî, Râjavarman, Dâmari of Nuluvugiri, and Nâgavarman ; defeated [the Chôḷa] Râjâditya,^[3] besieged Tañjâpurî, etc.).

128.─Ś. 872*.─Âtakûr Kanarese inscription of the time of the W. Gaṅga Permânaḍi Bûtuga II. Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarman-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja ; see above, No. 95.

129.─Ś. 890.─Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 104, lines 1-50 of the text. Lakshmêshwar (spurious^[4]) Inscription^[5] of the W. Gaṅga Mârasiṁha II. Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja ;^[6]─

(L. 24).─ Śakanṛipakâḷ-âtîta-saṁvatsara-śatêshv=ashṭasu navaty-uttarêshu pravarttamânê Vibhava-saṁvatsarê.^[7]

In the Jâhnavêya family and Kâṇvâyana gôtra. Mâdhava Koṅgaṇivarman-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja ; his son Mâdhava-mahârâjâdhirâja (composed a Dattakasûtra-vṛitti) ; his son

Harivarma-mahârâjâdhirâja ; his younger brother Mârasiṁha.

The inscription gives the line of Jaina teachers Dêvêndra, his disciple Êkâdêva, his disciple Jayadêva-paṇḍita.

130.─Ś. 896.─Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 351. Hebbâḷ Kanarese inscription, recording grants etc. by the W. Gaṅga Mârasiṁha II. Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja (also called Nolambakulântakadêva, etc.), ‘ lord of Kôḷâḷa,’ ‘ lord of Nandagiri,’ and his grand-mother Bhujjabbarasi, the mother of Bȗtayya (Bûtuga II.):─

(L. 16).─Sa(śâ)kanṛipakâḷ-ât[î]ta-sa[ṁ]vatsara-śataṁga[ḷ*] 896neya Bhâva-saṁvatsarada Pâ(phâ)lguṇa(na)-su(śu)ddha-paṁchami Bṛihaspativârad=andu.

Thursday, 18th February A.D. 975.^[8]

In the reign of [the Râshṭrakuṭa] Akâlavarsha Kannaradêva (Kṛishṇarâja II.), Baddegadêva (Amôghavarsha III. Baddiga) gave his daughter Rêvakanimmaḍi, the elder sister of Kannaradêva (Kṛishṇarâja III.), in marriage to Permânaḍi Bûtayya (Bûtuga II.) Satyavâkya-Koṅgaṇivarma-dharmamahârâjâdhirâja. Their son Maruḷadêva, married Bijjabe ; their son Rachcha(?)-Gaṅga. Immediately after his reign, there reigned the son of Bûtayya and Kallabbarasi, viz., Mârasiṁha [II.] Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-dh., also called Nolambakulântakadêva, etc.,

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^[1] Elsewhere Śivamâra is described as the younger brother of Bhûvikrama ; but see also No. 121.
^[2] I.e., here and below, -dharmamahârâjâdhirâja.
^[3] See above, No. 95.
^[4] See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 218, No. 38
^[5] Put on the stone in about the second half of the 11th century A.D.
^[6] See above, Nos. 104 and 106.
^[7] See the same date of an inscription of apparently the same king, Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 112, third part.
^[8] On this day the tithi of the date commenced 6 h. 52 m. after mean sunrise.