South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

of prince Pâṇḍya, a Râdhêya (Karṇa) in excellent gifts, the foremost of princes, who was ruling the noble kingdom of Puñjaḷika, consecrated here (the image of) the blessed Jina Gummaṭêśa, the son of Âdijina.

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No. 15.─ TWO JAINA INSCRIPTIONS OF IRUGAPPA.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.
A.─ Dated in the Dundubhi year.

From an inscription on a lamp-pillar in front of a Jaina temple at Vijanagara^[1] it is known that the general Chaicha or Chaichapa and his son Iruga or Irugapa were hereditary ministers of king Harihara II. of Vijayanagara. An inscription at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa states that the general Chaicha or Chaichapa had already been the minister of Bukkarâya,^[2] i.e. of Bukka I., the predecessor of Harihara II.

The subjoined Tamil and Grantha inscription (No. 41 of 1890) is engraved on the base of the north wall of the store-room in the Jaina temple of Vardhamâna at Tirupparuttikkunru[3] near Conjeeveram. It records that the village of Mahêndramaṅgalam in the division of Mâvaṇḍûr^[4] was granted to the temple by the minister Irugappa, the son of the general Vaichaya. The donor is of course identical with Irugapa, the son of Chaichapa, who was mentioned in the preceding paragraph. He is stated to have made the gift for the merit of Bukkarâja, the son of Arihararâja, i.e. Bukka II., the son of Harihara II. Hence the Dundubbhi year in which the grant was made must correspond to A.D. 1382. But Professor Kielhorn has shown that the details of the date do not work out correctly.^[5]

TEXT.^[6]

1 Svasti śr[î]ḥ [||*] Dundubhi-vasham Kât[tig]ai-[m]âdatt[i]l pûrvva-pakshattu= Tt[i]ṅgaṭ-kilamaiyum paurṇaiyum[7] perra Tâ(kâ)tt[i]-
2 gai-nâḷ mahâmaṇḍalêśvaran Arihararâja-kumâran śrîmat(d-)Bukkarâjan dharmmam âga Vaichaya-daṇḍanâtha-putran
3 Jain=ôttaman Irugap[pa]-mahâpradhâni Ti[rup]paruttikkunru-nâyanâr Traiḷôkyavalla- bharkku pûjaikku
4 śâlaikkum tiruppaṇik[ku]m Mâvaṇḍûr-pparril Mahêndramaṅgalam nâr-pârk=
ellaiyum irai-ili paḷḷichchhandam=âga chandr-âditya-varaiyum naḍakka=ttaruvittâr
(Symbol) Dharmm[ô]=ya[ñ=ja]yatu (Symbol)

Hail ! Prosperity ! (In) the Dundubhi year, (on) the day of Kâttigai (Kṛittikâ), which corresponded to a Monday and to the full­-moon tithi of the first fortnight in the month Kâttigai,─ for the merit of the glorious mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Bukkarâja, the son of Arihararâja,─ the best of Jainas, the great minister Irugappa, the son of the general Vaichaya, caused to be

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^[1]South-Ind, Inscr. Vol. I. No. 152.
^[2] Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, No. 82. The Śubhakṛit year in which this inscription is dated corresponds to A.D. 1422, and not to A.D. 1362 as Mr. Rice thinks.
^[3 No. 61 on the Madras Survey Map of the Conjeeveram tâluka.
^[4 This is evidently Mâmaṇḍûr, 5 miles from Conjeeveram ; see Mr. Sewell’s Lists, Vol. I. p. 166. I cannot identify Mahêndramaṅgalam.
^[5 Above, Vol. VI. p. 329, No. 1.
^[6] From two inked estampages.
^[7] The syllable rṇai is entered below the line.