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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI with full Imperial titles.1 The object of the inscription is to record some religious work done by a lady named Kŗishņādēvī for the religious merit of her mother and father. This appears to have been a temple which, as the opening words show, was probably dedicated to Śiva. If this conjecture is correct, the panel with the present inscription at the top may have been originally put up at it. The male and female figures in the panel are evidently intended to represent the father and the mother of the donor who is herself represented by a small female figure between them. She calls herself the wife of the illustrious Dēuka who was the son of a king, whose name I have doubtfully read as Rāvārya. He was born in the family of Kalāirēya and was the Paramēśvara (Emperor) of Kaśapura.2
The inscription is not dated, but as shown above, it may be assigned on paleographic grounds to the middle of the eighth century A.C. TRANSLATION Success ! Om ! Adoration to Śiva ! Hail ! During the increasingly victorious reign of the Paramabhaţţāraka, Mahārājādhirāja, and Paramēśvara, the illustrious Śankaragaņadēva, who meditates on the feet of the Paramabhaţţāraka, Mahārājādhirāja, and Paramēśvara, the illustrious Vāmarājadēva- (There is) the illustrious Dēuka the son of Rāvāryarāja, the mass of light sprung
from the family of Kalāirēya, (who is) the Paramēśvara (Emperor) of Kaśapura. The
wife of the same is the queen, the illustrious Kŗishņādēvī, born in the family of
1 In subsequent records the name almost invariably occurs as Vamadēva. See No. 48, 1. 33; No.
50, 1. 33 etc.
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