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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
165 [rû]pâkshô râjâ Harihar-âtmajaḥ [|| 17 ||*] Śubham=â-
ABRIDGED TRANSLATION. Verse 1 invokes the Boar incarnation of Vishṇu, and v. 2 the goddess of the Earth. (V. 3.) There was a king called Bukka, who was the son of Kâmâkshî and Saṁgama, and an ornament of the race of the Moon. (V. 4.) His son is the Râjâdhirâja Harihara, who performed the sixteen great gifts. (V. 5.) He had by Mallâdêvî, the son’s daughter of Râmadêva, a son named Virûpâksha. (V. 6.) He, the moon of the Kuntaḷas and the lord Tuṇḍîra, Chôḷa and Pâṇḍya countries, had, in the presence of (the god) Râmanâtha, weighed himself against gold. (Vv. 7-12.) In the Śaka year (expressed by the chronogram) dânaślâghya (i.e. 1308), in the auspicious Kshaya-saṁvatsara, in the month Phâlguna, on the new-moon tithi, on a Wednesday, while (the nakshatra) was Rêvatî, (the yôga) Vaidhṛiti (and) the karaṇa Nâga,─ he, the donor of a thousand cows, the establisher of the Brâhmaṇical faith (vêda-mârga), who was able to regild (the vimâna at) Śrîraṅgam and the Golden Hall (at Chidambaram),─ gave, with libations of water, as a sarvamânya (and) an agrahâra, to fourteen Brâhmaṇas the village of Vijayasudarśanapuram,[1] (which was made up of) Chiraikkâvûr in Saptakhaṇḍa-nîvṛit, (a subdivision) of Ujjîvana in the Chôḷa (country), and of a field of ten and three quarters vṛitis[2] on the outskirts of Tiruppâmpuram.
(Ll. 39-58.) On the day of (the nakshatra) Rêvatî, which corresponded to a Wednesday and to the new-moon (tithi in the solar) month Paṅguni (of) the Kshaya-saṁvatsara which was current after the Śaka year 1308 (had passed),─ while the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Vîra-Viruppaṇṇa-Uḍaiyar, the son of the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Râjâdhirâja Râjaparamêśvara Vîra-Harihararâya, was pleased to rule the earth,─ (he) gave, with libations of water, as a sarvamânya-agrahâra, in order to propitiate (the bad influence of) Râhu, by a religious edict, (the following land) to the Bhaṭṭas of various gôtras (living) in Śiraikkâvûr alias Vijayasudarśanapuram which including ten and five-eighths vêlis (of land) in the northern fields of Tiruppâmpuram,─ excluding the possessions of (the god) Puludivana-Perumâḷ :─
(Ll. 58-69.) The wet land, dry land and house sites, with all acquisitions, enclosed within
the four boundaries of Śiraikkâvûr, a village (belonging to) the eastern group (of) Elumuriparru, (a subdivision of) Uyyakkoṇḍa-vaḷanâḍu (in) Śôla-maṇḍalam, together with ten
and five-eighths vêlis of land bordering on Śiraikkâvûr (and situated) in the northern fields (of)
Tiruppâmpuram (in) the eastern group of Elumuri-parru, (a subdivision of) Uyyakkoṇḍavaḷanâḍu, were assigned in 14 shares to Bhaṭṭas of various gôtras.
[1] [Professor Aufrecht in his Catalogus Catalogorum mentionsSudarśanâchârya who wrote the Âpastamba-gṛihyasûtraṭîkâ and the Śrutaprakâśikâ. The Vaḍagalai-Guruparamparâprabhâva records that the latter
work consists of notes taken by Sudarśanabhaṭṭa, the grandson of Parâśarabhaṭṭa, form the discourses of the
Vaishṇava teacher Ambâḷâchârya on the Śrîbhâshya. According to the Vaḍagalai tradition Sudarśanabhaṭṭa was
an elder contemporary of the great Vêdântadêśika, who is believed to have been a friend of the Vêdic scholar
Vidyâraṇya and who is said to have composed a verse in praise of the Vijayanagara officer Gôpaṇa (above, Vol. VI.
p. 322). It thus appears that, in case the author of the Śrutaprakâśikâ was not living at the time of the
Śoraikkâvûr grant, his memory must have been quite fresh in the minds of Vaishṇavas. And as most of the donees
of the grant are Vaishṇavas, it is not unlikely that the granted village was called Vijayasudarśanapuram after
the Âchârya, provided Vijayasudarśana was not a surname either of Virûpâksha or of his father Harihara II.─
V. V.]
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