Epigraphia Indica Vol 27

SR No.: 032581
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 490
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[ Vol. XXVII Tiruttoudisvaram-Colaivār of Tirunāvalur alias Rājādittapuraui of Mölūr-nādu in Tirumunaiidi, a subdivision of Rājarāja-valan :
One wakurutõrawa weighing 100 kalanju of yold; vine and three-fourth finebess; One crescent weighing 3 kalanju of gold; eight and three-fourths fineness ; Oue abhishēkal-vessel) for the dancing yod weighing 20 kalañju of gold; nine and a hall
fineness, Oue silver dish for offering food weighing 1504! kalanju and 2 mañjādi and 4 mā: One kachchikköram of silver called after the name Arasanārāyanan weighing 224 kalanju; One clish in bell-metal called after Alappirandan weighing 200 palam; One tiruelawaikkül in tara weighing 185 palam : and one pair of horus (oranai) in tara weigh
ing 36 palam. Besides the above, the same chief yave to the god Tiruttoydiśvaram -Udaivār the pūdikāvvil incoines from the lands of the two villages Tirunāvalur alias Rājādittapuram and Kārāņai alias Viragolaval!ür.
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Ty the 13th year of the reign of Tribhuvanachakravartin Sri-Kulottungaso adēva, Arasanarāyanan Ilappirandān alias Vīraśēkharan Kādavarāyan of Kūdal gave to the temple at Tiruvannamalai, one ēkāvallivadam. It had in it 100 big pearls of the size of embellie myrobalans, two pendants and one gold string in which they were strung together weighing 130 kalanju.
VIII In the 13th year of the reign of Tribhuvanachakravartin Sri-Kulõttungaböladēva, Achalakulottaman Atkondanivakan Kädavarayan of Kūdal gave an ökaullivadam to the temple of Tiruvirattānam-Udaiyar at Tiruvadigai. It had in it 50 pearls, 19. . . nails, 101 broad gems, 2 mango-shaped pendants with a hook (kokkuvāy) and an eye (poulukav).. The whole weighed 104. Ikalunju). Another ekāralbimdam, in which sapphires and pearls were strong containing 23 pearl, 22 sapphires, 44 gems fastened in the middle, 2 pendants in gold and a hook (kökkurāy), presented by the same chief, is said to have weighed 1204 [kalanju).
No. 19--PHERAVA GRANT OF SAMANTAVARMAN, KING OF KALINGA, YEAR 185
(1 Plate) R. C. MAJUMDAR, CALCUTTA
This is a set of three plates which were dng up from a fiell neorly a furlong west of Chidivalasa (near Narasannapeta) in the Ganjam District, and are now in the possession of the Mohant, or Pontift of Balaga mathn at Chicacole. Mr. M. Narasiinham kindly brought the grant to my notice and went me estampages of the plates. Subsequently a fresh set of estampages was supplied hy the Government Epigraphist. The grant was rioticed in the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for the vear 1937-38 (p. 80), and referred to by Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra in this Jonmal (above, Vol. XXIV, p. 132). Mr. M. S. Sarma edited the grant in the Journal of Oriental Research (Vol. XI, pp. 55 ff.).
Each of the plates measures 5.8" x 2.2". There is a ring-hole about the middle of the lefthand side, but neither the ring nor the seal was aetually found. Each plate contains six lines of writing on each side, save that the third plate has only one line on the baok side, and that one side of the first plate is blank.