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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Dêvarâjêndra (v. 10) or Dêvarâya (II.) (v. 11) and Śrîgirîndra (v. 10), Śrîgirîśvara (v. 12) or Śrîgiribhûpâla (v. 13). The former, being the elder, succeeded to the throne (v. 11), while the second went over to Maratakapurî and was ruling the country of which it was the capital (v. 12). He made the subjoined grant of land to Sampatkumâra-paṇḍita[1] and his relatives and other learned men with him, on a Friday coupled with the Rêvatî nakshatra, on the Utthâna-dvâdaśî tithi, in the cyclic year Krôdhin corresponding to the Śaka year 1346. The Śaka date is expressed by the chronogram tattvâlôka (v. 19), the same as that of the Satyamaṅgalam plates of Dêvarâya II.,[2] which were issued in the month of Âshâḍha. Our record belongs to the month of Kârttika ; for the Utthâna-dvâdaśî is the twelfth tithi in the bright half of the month of Kârttika, when Vishṇu is said to rise from his four months’ sleep. It is otherwise called Prabôdhanî. Prof. Kielhorn kindly contributes the following remarks :─ “ On the utthâna-dvâdaśî-tithi see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXVI. p. 185. For this tithi of Śaka-saṁvat 1346 expired, which was the year Krôdhin, the date regularly corresponds to Friday, the 3rd November A.D. 1424, when the 12th tithi of the bright half commenced 1 h. 8 m., and the nakshatra was Rêvatî from 0 h. 39 m., after mean sunrise.”[3] The chief donee, Sampatkumâra-paṇḍita, is described as a very learned medical man, whose father Gôvinda-paṇḍita (v. 14) was also well versed in the Âyurvêda and in the Vêdâṅgas. The village Nîpataṭâka (v. 17), the gift of which is recorded by the present inscription, had been given away to the same donee by (the donor’s father) Vijayabhûbhuj (v. 16). So we may infer that by some means or other it had lapsed in the interval. It is said to have been watered by the Nâgakulyâ channel (v. 18), a branch of the Kâvêripâka channel (v. 17), and was situated in Kalavâ-nîvṛit[4] (Kalavai-parru in Tamil), a division of Paḷuvût-kôṭṭa (Paḍuvûr-kôṭṭam). When the village was granted, its name was altered into Vijayarâyapura (v. 24) or Vijayarâṭpura (v. 21), evidently in honour of its original donor Vijayarâya.
As regards the name Śrîgiribhûpâla, a word of explanation is necessary Śrîgiri is another form of Śrîparvata in the Kurnool district. The god of the temple at that place is called Mallikârjuna, and hence it is not impossible that the prince was actually named Mallikârjuna after the god, and that this name was changed by the poet into its equivalent Śrîgiribhûpâla. The manner in which the present inscription speaks of him, makes it possible that Śrîgiribhûpala was the same person as the Pratâpadêvarâya who is spoken of with respect in the Satyamaṅgalam plates of Dêvarâya II. as the younger brother of the king. For verse 10 states that Vijayabhûpâla had only two sons, Dêvarâjêndra and Śrîgirîndra. If the latter is not the same person as Pratâpadêvarâya, he must be another brother of Dêvarâya II., not hitherto known. Śrîgiribhûpâla (alias Mallikârjuna ?) is of course distinct from Mallikârjuna alias Immaḍi-Dêvarâya, who was the son of Dêvarâya II.,[5] and whose dates range from Śaka 1370[6] to Śaka 1387.[7]
As regards the places mentioned in this grant, Maratakapurî is already known to us from
the expression Maratakanagara-prânta occurring in the Satyamaṅgalam plates of Dêvarâja II.,
and Rai Bahadur Venkayya has suggested that it may be identical with Viriñchipuram in
[1] See vv. 16, 21 and l. 135.─[Sampatkumâra is a Sanskṛit rendering of the Tamil Śelvapiḷḷai, the name of
the god at Mêlukôṭe in the Mysore State. It seems therefore possible that the chief donee belonged originally to
the Kanarese country, and his father’s native place, Rambhâmayûranagarî (v. 13), may have to be looked for in
the same country. One of the minor donees, Hampaṇa-bhaṭṭa (l. 93), was evidently called after the
Pampâpati temple at Vijayanagara.─ V. V.]
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