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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA the village of Amînâbâd in the Sattenapalli tâluka of the Kistna district there is an inscription[1] of Râcha-Vema, son of Vêma, who is said to have, in the year Manmatha corresponding to the Śaka year 1337 (expired), excavated a channel to feed the tank called Santâna-Sâgara, which had been dug by his mother Sûrâmbâ. We know from the Phiraṅgipuram inscription[2] that Peda-Kômaṭi-Vêma’s wife Sûrâmbâ had a tank excavated and called it Santâna-Sâgara. The two inscriptions are about two miles distant from each other, and they, no doubt, refer to the same tank. This establishes the fact that Peda-Kômaṭi’s successor Râcha was his son and not his brother, and the same conclusion is pointed to by the Velugôṭivâri Vâṁśâvaḷi. This book says that Mâcha (who was the only brother Peda-Kômaṭi-Vêma seems to have had), son of Kômaṭi, was killed in battle by Pina-Vêdagiri or Kumâra-Vêdagiri, great-grandson of Mâdânîḍu who had fought with Anapôta-Reḍḍi at Dharaṇikôṭa, and that Mâcha’s elder brother Vêma killed Pina-Vêdagiri and was himself killed by Pina-Vêdagiri’s younger brother Liṅga. When Peda-Kômaṭi-Vêma died, he had, therefore, no brother to succeed him.
The Daṇḍakavili, says that the Reḍḍis of Koṇḍavîḍu ruled for 100 years and distributes
the period as follows :─
This distribution conflicts with the dates furnished by some of the inscriptions quoted
above. Taking 100 years as the approximate total of the reigns of the six Reḍḍi chiefs, I would
redistribute it as follows, so as to make the distribution accord with the latest information
available on the subject :─
TEXT.[3] First Plate.
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[1] This inscription consists of a Telugu verse in the Sîsa metre and is engraved on the western side of a
bullock named Pullaribôḍu, north-east of Amînâbâd which adjoins Phiraṅgipuram. At the end of the verse are the
words Śrînâtha-kṛiti, i.e. ‘ Śrînâtha’s composition.’
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