South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Goggi ; his son Vajjaḍa [I.] ; his son Aparâjita^[1] (contemporary of Gôma, Aiyapadêva, and of the kings Bhillama and …..^[2]) ; his son Vajjaḍa [II.] ; his brother Arikêsarin ; his nephew, Vajjaḍa’s son Chhittarâja ; his younger brother Nâgârjuna ; his younger brother Mummuṇi ; Nâgârjuna’s son Anantapâla.

310.─Ś. 1076.─ From an impression supplied by Dr. Burgess. British Museum inscription the reign (?) of [the Śîlâra] Haripâladêva ;^[3]─

(L. 1).─ Śaku 1076 Bhâva-samvatsarê Mâgha-su(śu)ddha-paurṇṇamâsyâṁ parvvaṇi . . .

(L. 4).─ śrî-Haripâladêvu.

311.─ Ś. 1078.─ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet. Chiplûṇ (now Bombay As. Soc.’s) fragmentary inscription of the [Śîlâra] Mahâmaṇḍalêśvarâdhipati Mallikârjuna :^[4]─

(L. 3. of one fragment) :─[Śakanṛipakâl-âtîta-saṁvatsara-śatêshu daśa[sv=a]shṭasaptaty-adhikêshu Śaka-saṁvatu || 1078(?) | Dhâtâ(tṛi)-saṁvatsarê Vaiśâkha-[śuddha]- aksha[ya*]tṛitîyâyâṁ yugâdi-parvvaṇi Bhauma-dinê Mṛigaśira-nakshatrê.

Tuesday, 24th April A.D. 1156 ; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 116, No. 22.

312.─Ś. 1107.─ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet. Bombay As. Soc.’s inscription of the reign of [the Śîlâra] Aparâditya :─

(L. 1).─ [Śaka-?]saṁvatu 1107 Visvâ(śvâ)vasu-saṁvachchha(tsa)rê Chaitra-śuddha 15 Ravau dinê.^[5]

Sunday, 17th March A.D. 1185.

313.─ Ś. 1109*.─ Jour. Bo. As. Soc. Vol. XII. p. 333, and Plate. Parel (now Bombay As. Soc.’s) inscription^[6] of the [Śîlâra] Mahârâjâdhirâja Koṅkaṇa-chakravartin Aparâditya :─

(L. 1).─Śaka-saṁvatu 1109 Parâbhava-saṁvatsarê || Mâghê mâsi ||

(L. 8).─saṁjâta-Mâghî-parvaṇi.

314.─ Ś. 1181.─ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet. Bombay As. Soc.’s inscription^[7] of the reign of the Śilâhâra Mahâsâmantâdhipati Koṅkaṇa-chakravartin Sômêśvara,^[8] ‘ lord of Tagara.’

The year of the date is Ś. 1181 (in words and figures), the Siddhârthin saṁvatsara, but I am unable to give the date in full.

315.─ Ś. 980.─Jour. Roy. As. Soc. Vol. IV. p. 281 ; Cave-Temples of West. India, p. 102, and Plates. Miraj plates^[9] of the Śilâhâra Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Mârasiṁha, ‘ lord of Tagara ;’ issued from Khiḷigiḷadurga (Kiḷigiḷadurga) :─

(L. 44).─ Sa(śa)kanṛipakâḷ-âtîta-saṁvatsara-śatêshu | asî(śî)tyadhika-n a v a ś a t ê s h v = aṁkêshu | pravarttayiti^[10] Viḷaṁbi-saṁvatsarê | Pausha-mâsasya śuddha-pakshê | saptamyâṁ Bṛihaspativârê | udagayana-parvvaṇi |

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^[1] He is surnamed Birudaṅka-Râma ; compare Birudaṅka-Bhîma in No. 568.
^[2] The original has Bhillamâmmamaṇamvuva-kshitibhṛitâṁ.
^[3] I believe this to be the king of whom three inscriptions (of Ś. 1071, 1072 and 1075) are mentioned in the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XIII. Part II. p. 426.─This inscription contains only 9 short lines and is for the most part written in a kind of old Marâṭhî. It contains the usual curse of the ass and the woman, but no sculpture.
^[4] The Bombay As. Soc. has another inscription (from Bassein) of Mallikârjuna, the date of which I cannot make out with confidence. In it Mallikârjuna is described as Mahâsâmantâdhipati, Tagarapura-paramêśvara and Si(śi)lâhâra-narêndra. The inscription contains a sculpture of an ass and a woman.
^[5] The date is given wrongly in Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 40, note 62.
^[6] Lines 22-24 are “ in the local dialect of the Koṅkaṇa language of the period. Below the inscription is a rude sculpture of an ass and a woman.”
^[7] The inscription contains a sculpture of an ass and a woman.
^[8] See Dr. Bhandarkar’s Early History of the Dekkan, p. 115.
^[9] These plates belongs to Mr. Wathen ; they are now lost.
^[10] For pravarlamânê.