Epigraphia Indica Vol 07

SR No.: 032561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 522
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 23 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
. [VoL. VII.
42 दनुपमानग्रहा[]निनेकान् । [१.*] 43 [स्तुत्यौदार्यसुधीभिम विजयन44 गरे रनसिंघानस्थः मापालान् 45 कृष्णरायक्षितिपतिरधरीकत्य 46 नीत्या नृगादीन् ।' मा पूर्वाद्रे47 'रधास्तक्षितिधरकटकादा [च] 48 हेमाचलत्तादा सेतोरपिर्थसार्थ49 थियमिह बहळीवत्य कीर्त्यास्ममिध्ये [॥ ११] 60 अस्य श्रीकृष्णरायस्य कीर्तिधर्मों 51 [स]होद्भवौ । पाकल्पं तिष्ठतां लो52 [केष्वमरेशप्प्रसादतः ।। १२*] 53 श्री श्री श्री [*]
No. 4.- THREE MEMORIAL STONES.
Br E. HOLTZSCH, PH.D. I.-- BANGAVADI STONE OF NARASIMHAVIKRAMAVARMAN. The stone which bears this inscription (No. 103 of 1899) was discovered by Mr. H. Krishna Sastri, B.A. It is set up near the Šiva temple at Bangavadi in the Muļubagal taluka of the Kõlar district of the Mysore State and bears the representation of a warrior riding on a horse at full gallop.
The alphabet is archaic Tamil and resembles that of the published inscriptions of the same king. The only Grantha letter which occurs is da of Dadiya° (1.2). The language is Tamil. Au archaic form is nálgavadu (1.2) for nângávadu. Instead of kanga and Dadiyargal we find the vulgar forms kanga (1. 5) and Dadiyanga! (1. 2 f.). Mayindiramikkiruma (1. 3) is a Prakrit corruption of Mahendravikrama. The word tonru (1. 4) is a variant of toru, 'cattle.'?
The inscription is dated in the 24th year of the reign of the (Ganga-Pallava) king Vijaya-Narasimhavikramavarman. It records the death of a hero, who was in the service of Skanda, the adhiraja of the Båņas, and who fell in recovering cattle which had been seized by three persons. These were the Dadiya,-evidently the chief of DadigavAdi,10-an unnamed Båņa chief, and a certain Mahendravikrama. The usual imprecation at the end of the inscription is only partially preserved.
1 Read सिंहासनस्थ :
. Read °दौन्।
. Read रथास्त. • Read रत्य॑िसार्थ..
- Read कौया समिं. 6 Above, Vol. IV. No. 22, A. and No. 52. ? See above, Vol. IV. p. 179, note 2, and Vol. VI. p. 163.
* In two Kil-Muttugur inscriptions (see note 6 above) the name of this king appears in the shorter form Vijaya-Narasimhavarman.
. On the title Bañadhirdja see above, Vol. V. p. 50 and note 14. 10 See Dr. Fleet's remarks in Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 109 4 and atove, Vol. VI. p. 256, note 3.