South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

505.─Ś. 1435 (for 1436).─ As. Res. Vol. XX. p. 30. Translation of a Kṛishṇâpuram inscription of Kṛishṇarâya :─

‘ In the reign of Śâlivâhana 1435, corresponded to the year Bhâva, in Phâlguna and Tṛitîyâ, Śukravâr.’

Friday, 16th February A.D. 1515 ; see below, No. 506.

506.─Ś. 1436.─ As. Res. Vol. XX. pp. 21 and 37. Kṛishṇâpuram Sanskṛit and Kanarese inscription of Kṛishṇarâya :─

Śâlivâhana-Śak-âbdâḥ || 1436 || . . . Bâ(Bhâ)va-nâma-saṁvatsara-Phâlguna(na)- śuddha 3 Śukravâra.

Friday, 16th February A.D. 1515 ; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 120, No. 43.

507.─Ś.1436.─ Archæol Surv. of West. India, Vol. III. p. 115. Reference to a Saundatti Kanarese inscription of the time of Kṛishṇarâya :─

Śâlivâhana-Śaka-varushaṁgaḷu 1436neya Bhâva-saṁvatsaradallu.

508.─Ś. 1437-1443.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 117. Maṅgalagiri and Kâzâ pillar inscriptions^[1] of the reign of Kṛishṇarâya of Vijayanagara, recording grants by his prime-minister Sâḷva-(Sâḷuva-)Timma (the son of the minister Râcha and grandson of the minister Vêma, and husband of Lakshmî), and by the two ministers Appa and Gôpa (Nâdiṇḍla-Appa and Nâdiṇḍla-Gôpa), son of the minister Timma and his wife Kṛishṇâmbâ (Kṛishṇamâmbâ) who was a sister of Sâḷva-Timma. The inscription records the capture of Koṇḍavîṭi (Koṇḍavîḍu) from the Gajapati (of Orissa) by Sâḷva-Timma on the following date :^[2]─

(L. 47).─Sâḷuvâṁka-Śakavatsara-gaṇy-Ȃshâḍha-śudhdha(ddha)-Harivâsara-Saurau (on which there is the remark : Sâḷuvâṁka akshara-saṁjña | 1437 Śaka-varshâlu).

Saturday, 23rd June A.D. 1515.

509.─Ś. 1442.─ Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 233. Koṇḍavîḍu Sanskrit and Telugu pillar inscription of the reign of Kṛishṇarâya of Vijayanagara, recording grants by Nâdiṇḍla-Gôpa, the governor of Koṇḍavîḍû, made for the benefit of Kṛishṇarâya’s minister Sâḷva-Timma and his wife Lakshmî (Lakshmamma) ;^[3] (the Sanskṛit part was composed by Lôlla-Lakshmîdhara Yajvan) :─

(L. 92).─ Śak-âbdê=kshi-yug-âbdhi-chaṁdra-gaṇitê saṁvvatsarê Vikramê.

(L. 109).─ Jayâbhyudaya-Śâlivâhana-Śaka-varshaṁbulu 1442agunêṃṭi Vikrama-saṁvvatsara Vaiśâkha-śudhdha(ddha) 15 Bu | sômagrahaṇa-puṇyakâlam=aṁdu.

Wednesday, 2nd May A.D.1520 ; a lunar eclipse, visible in India.

510.─Ś. 1442.─As. Res. Vol. XX. p. 28. Translation of a Vijayanagara inscription of
the time of Kṛishṇarâya :─

‘ In the year of Śâlivâhana 1442, corresponding to . . . Vikrama, in Mârga sudi-saptamî . . . . on Râdhâsaptamî,^[4] the 7th of the moon.’

511.─Ś. 1444 (for 1445).─PSOCI. No. 27 ; Mysore Inscr. No. 135, p. 242. Śimoggâ
Sanskṛit and Kanarese plates of Kṛishṇarâya :─

(L. 77).─Śâlivâhana-nirnî(rṇî)tê Śak-âbdê daśabhiḥ śataiḥ | chatuś-śataiś=chatuś-chatvâriṁśatâ gaṇitê kramât | Svabhânu-vatsarê Pushya-mâsê Makara-saṁkramê | Hasta-rkshe Bhaumavârê cha.

Tuesday, 29th December A.D. 1532 ; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIV. p. 5, No. 142.

Genealogy as in No. 502.

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^[1] With a few explanatory remarks in Telugu.─ For another inscription of Ś. 1437 see below, under Addenda.
^[2] The other (very numerous) dates it is impossible to give here. In one of the dates, in lines 151 and 152, iṁdra-jalad(dh)-îṁdu appears to be wrong for iṁdu-jaladh-îṁdra (1441).
^[3] See above, No. 508.
^[4] This should be ratha-saptamî.