Epigraphia Indica Vol 03

SR No.: 032557
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 472
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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the subdivision called after itself, (and) as, accordingly, Narasingappottaraiyar, the conqueror of Våtâpi, had confirmed the grant) in the same manner,--I, Rajakesarivarman, at the request of Puttan, the son of Gunavan of Andurai, have maintained the grant) as former kings had maintained it.
(L. 9.) "The feet of one who protects this charity, shall be on my head!"
B.- INSCRIPTION OF PARANTAKA I. This insoription is now published for the first time. It is dated during the 13th year of the reign of Madirai konda Parakesarivarman, and records the gift of a perpetual lamp to the Tirukkalukkuņram temple. Madirai konda means who took Madirai (i.e. Madhura),' and is synonymous with the Sansksit Madhurântaka, & name which is applied in the large Leyden grant to two of the successors of Parantaka I. Several inscriptions of Madirai konda Parakesarivarman have already been published, -three from the Kailasanatha temple at Conjeeverams and one from Tiruppundurutti near Tanjore. The endorsement on the Udayêndiram plates of Nandivarman and on those of Nandivarman Pallavamalla are dated during the reign of the same king. The Tamil portion of the Udayêndiram plates of the Ganga-Båņa king Prithivipati II. alias Hastimalla belongs to the reign of the same Madirai konda Parakesarivarman? and implies that he bore the surname Viranåráyaņa. In the Sanskrit portion of the same grant, the two names Viranåråyana' and Parantakall are used for the Chola king. In the large Leyden grant the name Parânta ka alone appears. In both of these copper-plate grants, he is said to have been the son of the Chôļa king Aditya (I.) and the grandson of Vijayalaya. From the Udayêndiram plates we learn that he uprooted the Bâņa king and gave the Bana territory to his Ganga feudatory Přithivipati II.18 He conquered the Pandya king|Rajasimhal and defeated the army of the king of Ceylon.16 This event appears to be referred to in the Mahavamsa 16 when it says that the Singhalese king Kassapa V. sent an army to aid the Pandya king against the Chôļa, but that the expedition was not successful. Kassapa V. is supposed to have reigned from A.D. 929 to 939. If the chronology of this portion of the Mahavansa can be relied upon, 18 we can get to & nearer approximation with regard to the date of Parantaka I. than what is furnished by the Atakûr inscription, from which it appears that this king's eldest son Raj&ditya had been killed before A.D. 950. In the verse which refers to Parantaka I. the Kalingattu-Parani mentions the conquest of Ceylon and Madhura.9 The large Leyden grant says that Parantaka I. covered with gold the Siva temple at Vyaghragrahara,20 which is a Sanskrit rendering of Puliyûr, one of the Tamil names of Chidambaram. This evidently means that he built the so-called Kanakasabha or Golden Hall at Chidambaram. In the collection of Saiva hymns known as Tiruvisaippa, there is a poem composed by Kaņdarådittar,
I i.e. "I worship their feet."- (A similiar captatio benevolentia, the transcription and translation of which must be changed in accordance with the one given here, occurs in line 9 of the Velar inscription of Kapparadeva; South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 77.-E. H.] South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 111.
ibid. No. 82, 83 and 145. • Madras Christian College Magazine, Vol. VIII. p. 104 ff. . " See p. 147 above.
Salem Manual, VOL II. p. 859. 7 ibid. p. 871. • The village granted by the inscription was called Viran&r yapachcb@ri after the reigning king. . Salem Manual, Vol. II. p. 872, verse 6.
ibid. p. 379, verse 25. 11 Archological Survey of Southern India, Vol. IV. p. 206, 1. 82. 12 Salem Manual, Vol. II. p. 372, verse 9.
1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIII. p. 296, note 2. 44 Salem Manual, Vol. II. p. 372, verse 11.
15. ibid. verse 10. 16 L. C. Wijesinba's Translation, p. 80.
17 ibid. p. xxii. 18 That the chronology of the Mahdnames is not beyond suspicioa, bas been pointed out by Dr. Hultzach in his Annual Report for 1891-92, p. 5, note
» Canto viii. verse 23.
Archæological Survey of Southern India, Vol. IV. p. 206, 1.85 1.