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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA and the plates[1] I have compiled the following genealogical Table, which will be found to differ considerably from the one published by Mr. Rice in Ep. Carn. Vol. VI. Introduction, p. 4.
I ought to state that the correctness of this Table greatly depends on the reliability[2]─
assumed here─ of the Bîrûr plates, published by Mr. Rice in Ep. Carn. Vol. VI. p. 91, No. 162.
These plates record a grant by the Kadamba Dharmamahârâja Vishṇuvarman, the eldest son of
the aśvamêdha-yâjin, the Dharmamahârâja Kṛishṇavarman. By stating that Vishṇuvarman was
making the grant with the permission of his jyêshṭha-pitṛi (i.e. his father’s eldest brother[3])
Śântivaravarman (Śântivarman), they enable us to combine, as shown in the Table, the information given by the Bannahaḷḷi plates of Kṛishṇavarman II. (above, Vol. VI. p. 17) with that
furnished by various plates from Halsî and Dêvagêri (Nos. 604, 606, 608, 610-612 of my
Southern List). What I am not sure about in the Table is, whether I have correctly placed
Mândhâtṛivarman and Dêvavarman. Mṛigêśavarman was an eldest son, and Mândhâtṛivarman
[1] For the fifteen Kadamba copper-plate inscription known to us see below, p. 34, note 2.
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