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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 5.─ TALAGUNDA PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF KAKUSTHAVARMAN. BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN. This inscription was discovered in 1894 by Mr. B. Lewis Rice, Director of Archæological Researches in Mysore.[1] From a photograph and a transcript furnished by him, a preliminary notice of it was published by the late Prof. Bühler in September 1895, in the Academy ;[2] and about the same time a summary of its contents was given by Dr. Fleet, in his Dynasties, p. 286 f., from an ink-impression lent by Mr. Rice. The inscription has now been edited by its discoverer, with a photo-lithograph and translation, in Ep. Carn. Vol. VII. p. 200 ff. I re-edit it from ink-impressions supplied by Prof. Hultzsch.[3]
According to Mr. Rice, the inscription is engraved on a pillar of very hard grey granite,
which stands in front of the ruined Praṇavêśvara[4] temple at Tâḷagunda, in the Shikârpur
tâluka of the Shimoga district of the Mysore State. The pedestal of the pillar “ is 5 feet 4
inches high and 1 foot 4 inches square at the top, a little more at the base. The shaft is octagonal, 6 feet 4 inches high,[5] each face being 7 inches wide, but tapering slightly towards the
top,” Seven faces of the shaft contain each two vertical lines of writing which commences at
the bottom, while on the 8th face there is only one short line (line 15 of the text), written in the
same way. “ The invocation at the beginning” of the inscription (i.e. the words Siddham [||]
Namaś=Śivâya || of line 1) “ is on the pedestal, and runs up connecting with the first line.” In
the impressions the length of lines 1-14, disregarding the words Siddham [||] Namaś=Śivâya ||
[1] See Ep. Carn. Vol. IV. Introduction, p. 1 f.
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