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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA very peculiar form in l. 61, whereas in l. 11 it appears in the usual shape. The language is Sanskṛit, and the whole is in verse, with the exception of the words svasty=astu at the end. Here also a surd consonant is written instead of a sonant in patma (ll. 2, 3, 4) and bhavatbhir (l. 64), and besides in dṛikbhyâm (l. 4) and dik dakshiṇâ (l. 35). Of the 23 verses of the Tiruvâlaṅgâḍu inscription 16 reappear in this inscription, occasionally with slight variations.[1] With respect to the earlier part of the genealogy (vv. 2-9) it is to be noticed that the verses about Manu and Tiluṅgavidya are omitted here. That portion also which deals with the direct line of Tammusiddhi’s ancestors (vv. 10-17) shows one important point of difference. No mention is made of Betta I. and of Dâyabhîma. Instead of the two verses devoted to them in the Tiruvâlaṅgâḍu inscription we find here a verse (11) stating that in king Siddhi’s family was born king Nallasiddhi. In the following verse Êrasiddhi is called his younger brother, which term in the identical verse 16 of the Tiruvâlaṅgâḍu inscription applies to Dâyabhîma spoken of in the preceding verse, and it might therefore easily be imagined that Dâyabhîma and Nallasiddhi were only different names of the same king. Fortunately, an inscription at Tiruvorriyûr,[2] quoted by Dr. Hultzsch in his Annual Report∙ for 1893, paragraph 13. leaves no doubt that they were two distinct persons, and the pedigree to be derived from the two inscriptions edited here is thus to be arranged in the following manner :[3]-
Besides the names of Nallasiddhi the Tiruppâsûr inscription contains little that is new. Nallasiddhi seems to have taken possession of Kâñchî Conjeeveram ; for in verse 11 it is said, with a well-known pun, that, when the southern quarter had obtained him as her husband, she was goḷita-kâñchi-guṇâ, which may be understood as ‘having dropped her girdle’ or ‘having lost Kâñchi.’ In verse 15 we are told once more, but in a more explicit way, that after the death of Manmasidhi the government passed without any disturbances into the hands of Tammusiddhi, Betta II. being of a religious turn of mind and therefore renouncing his claims to the throne in favour of his younger brother.
The verses 18 and 19 record that in the Śaka year 1129 (=A.D. 1207-8) Tammusiddhi
allotted to the lord of Pâśipura the revenues due to the king in the villages belonging to the
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