South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

feat is ascribed to the mythical king Koṅgaṇivarman,^[1] who is, however, there represented as the father and not as the son of Mâdhava. The Śôlapuram inscription then states that in his (viz. Koṅgaṇivarman’s) family was born a king whose name is given in the corrupt form of Atvivarman, which may be meant for Atrivarman, Agnivarman, Arivarman, etc. Verse 2 praises a king whose name is lost ; but the Tamil portion suggests that this is the person who is there called Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar. Verse 3, of which only the first and last words are preserved, opens with the name of Râjâditya, who is described in the Tamil portion as the son of Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar and the contemporary of Vijaya-Kampa. As regards Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar, he must be different from the Gaṅga chief Pṛithivîpati I., because the latter was the father of Mârasiṁha and the son of Śivamâra,^[2] while the former was the father of Râjâditya and apparently the son of the king whose name is hidden in the corrupt form Atvivarman.

TEXT.

1 Svasti śrî [||*] Gâṁgêya-vaṁśyô vijai(ja)y-âbhirâma[ḥ] śrî-Mâdhava[s=*] tasya suto va(ba)bhûva |^[3] chhêttâ śilâ-sta[ṁ]bham=api pri(pra)siddha[s=*] tat(d)-
vaṁśa-jô=bhu(bhût=) pri(pra) [thi]tô=tvi[varmmâ]^[4] [|| 1*] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gô
2 nṛipati[ḥ*] parantapa[ḥ |*] nṛip-âpi(bhi)vandya[ḥ*] Śiva-bhaktimân kavi[r=*] vikalpa-kallôla-padârttha-tatpara[ḥ*] || [2*] Râjâditya-âkhya-bhûpa[ḥ*] sura[ta]ru-
sa[d]ṛiśô Narga[ṭî-nâma] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ram=asau
3 dâpayâm=âsa v[î]ra[ḥ*] || [3*]^[5] Kô Viśaiya-Kamparkku yâṇḍu eṭṭâvadu Pṛithiviga[ṅ][ga*]raiyar at[î]tar=âyina pirpâḍu tat-putra-Râjâditya[n] ma[hâ]- dê]van para-nṛipati-makuṭa-ghaṭṭita-chara-
4 [ṇa]n tam=appanâr[ai]=ppaḷḷi-paḍuttav=iḍattu Îśvar-âlayamum atiyta-^[6]garamum eḍu[p]pittu kanḍu(ṇḍu) śevviytân^[7] [|*] Prâvaśa(cha)na-śûttirattu Kauśika-
gôtrattu perum-bâ[r*]ppân Tiṭṭaiśarmma-^[8]

TRANSLATION OF THE TAMIL PORTION.

(Line 3.) (In) the eighth year of king Vijaya-Kampa,─ after Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar had died, his son, the great king Râjâditya, whose feet were rubbed by the diadems of hostile kings, caused to be built, constructed, and caused to be made a temple of Îśvara (Śiva) and a house for the deceased (i.e. a tomb) on the spot where his father had been buried.

(Line 3.) (In) the eighth year of king Vijaya-Kampa,─ after Pṛithivigaṅgaraiyar had died, his son, the great king Râjâditya, whose feet were rubbed by the diadems of hostile kings, caused to be built, constructed, and caused to be made a temple of Îśvara (Śiva) and a house for the deceased (i.e. a tomb) on the spot where his father had been buried.

(L. 4.) [To] Tiṭṭaiśarman, a great Brâhmaṇa of the Prâvachana-sûtra^[9] (and) of the Kausika-gôtra . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

B.- INSCRIPTION OF VIJAYA-KAMPAVIKRAMAVARMAN.

This Tamil inscription is engraved on the north wall of the Perumâḷ temple at Śôlapuram. It was been edited before in South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. No. 53, but is now republished from a better impression prepared in 1902.

The inscription is dated in the 23rd year of king Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman^[10]¬─ who is probably the same as the Vijaya-Kampa of A.─ and records the building of a temple of Nârâyaṇa
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^[1] Above, Vol. III. p. 164 f. and p. 186 ; South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. p. 380.
^[2] South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. II. p. 380.
^[3] This sign of punctuation is expressed by a visarga.
^[4] I am unable to correct with confidence this corrupt name.
^[5] This is only half a verse.
^[6] Read atîta-.
^[7] Read śeyvittân.
^[8] The remainder of the inscription is lost.
^[9] See above, Vol. V. p. 52, note 11.
^[10] The same form of the king’s name is found in an inscription at Dûśi ; South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. III. p. 8 and note 5. Twelve further inscriptions of Vijaya-Kampavarman and Vijaya-Kampavikramavarman have been copied at Uttaramallûr, and two of Kampavarman at Kâvântaṇḍalam ; see my Annual Reports for 1897-98 and 1900-01, pp. 18-20 and p. 23, respectively.