Epigraphia Indica Vol 09

SR No.: 032563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch, Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 498
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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engraved and well preserved rock inscription was hitherto missing. I therefore republish it now in Roman characters with a fresh translation, and with a collotype of a careful inked estampage which was prepared recently under Rai Bahadur Venkayya's personal supervision.
The inscription is engraved on a smooth piece of rock near & rock-cut Jaina figure on the top of the hill of Tirumalai near Poļür in the North Arcot district. The language is Tamil and the alphabet is likewise Tamil, interspersed with a few Grantha words and letters (svasti sri, 1. 1; shai of vishaiya, 1.9; Mahi°, 1. 10 ; Sri-Rajendra-Choladeva and ja of Jayangonda, 1. 12; sri, Jina and dêva, 1. 13; vyápári, 1. 13 f.).
The inscription is dated in the 13th year of the reign of the Chola king Parakesarivarman alias Rajendra-Choladêva I. (1. 12), who ascended the throne in A.D. 1012. Ito first eleven lines consist of a passage in Tamil verse which describes the conquests of the king, and the first words of which (Tiru manni, etc.) are quoted -as pointed out by Mr. Venkayya - in Perundevagår's commentary on the Virašoliyam.
The list of conquesta opens with Idaidurai-nadu (1. 1 f.), i.e. the country of Yedatore in the Mysore district, and Vanavasi, i.e. Banavasi in the North Canara district. The next item, the city of Kollippåkkri, must have been included in the Western Chalukya kingdom. For it was set on fire by Rajadhiraja I. in the course of a war against Somèsvara I. and Vikramaditya VI., and it is mentioned as Kollipake in an inscription of Jayasimha II. Manpai-kataka is identified by Mr. Rice with the city of Manne in the Nelamangala taluka of the Bangalore district.6
Ilam (1.2) or fla-mandala (1. 3) is the Tamil designation of the island of Ceylon. Rajendra-Chola I. bonets of having deprived its king of his own crown, the crowds of his queens, and two other trinkets which the Pandya king had previously deposited with the king of Ceylon : a crown and the necklace of Indra.' Mr. Venkayya has pointed out that the Mahavarasa (chapter LIII.) also refers to the crown of the Pâədya, which had been left with the king of Ceylon and was taken from him by the Chôļas, and that the necklace of Indra' is alluded to in several Pandya inscriptions.7
The Kerala (1.3) is the king of Malabar. Śândimattivu (1.5), i.e. the island of Santimat (?), is unknown. Musangi is perhaps identical with the fort of Uchchangi in the Bellary district.8 Jayasinha of Ratta-padi (1. 6), who was put to flight at Musangi, is the Western Chalukya king Jayasimha II.
Sakkaragottam, i.e. Chakrakotta, is shown by the inscriptions of Kulottunga I. to have belonged to the dominions of the king of Dhårå.20 Madura-mandala (1.7) need not be connected with Madhura, the capital of the Påndya king, who has been already accounted for (1. 3), but may be meant for the district of the northern Mathurd on the Yamana. The three next geographical names cannot be identified.
At Âdinagar (?) Rajendra-Chola I. captured Indraratha of the race of the Moon (1. 8). As suggested by Prof. Kielhorn, 11 this prince may be identical with that Indraratha who is mentioned in the Udaypur inscription as an enemy of Bhojadeva of Dhara.
1 South-Ind. Inser. Vol. III. p. 198 ; above, Vol. VIII. p. 262. . Compare South-Ind. Inger. Vol. III. p. 197. * Ibid. p. 52. • Above, Vol. III. p. 231. Compare also Vol. VI. PP 224, 225 and 227 (Kollipdkd). • Ep. Cars. Vol. III. p. 10 of the Introduction. • Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1906-1907, p. 73. * Ibid. p. 63 f.; Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 72 and note 78.
South-Ind. Inser. Vol. II. p. 94, note 4. Ibid. Vol. I. p. 96.
10 Ibid. Vol. III. p. 132. 11 List of Southern Incor. p. 120, note 8.