Epigraphia Indica Vol 30

SR No.: 032584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 490
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[Vol. XXX - 12 दक्षां महानंदापद]प्रदो (दा)ने । [१९*] विदितो लोके तस्मादभवाद्यम]नियमनैष्ठिक
श्रेष्ठः । यो वल्कल इति नाम्ना कृतवल्कलकोपीनवननिवासात् ॥ [२०*]
शिवभक्तिः शुभाचारो जपध्यात (न)परः शमी । संसारपाश13 परशुलकुलीशेशतत्व (त्त्व)वित्] ॥ [२१*] यस्याभूज्ज्येष्ठजः शिष्यो वरिष्ठो
गुरुभक्तितु(तः) । नैष्ठिकाचारतत्व (त्त्व)ज्ञो योगविद्योगिनां प्रियः ॥ [२२*] विद्युल्लेखाचलं लोके जीवितं धनयौवनं (नम्) । अकारि मंदिरं ताभ्यां
संविद्येदमुमापतेः ॥ [२३*] 14 [अस्तु] देवो नवं शंभुः*] पूज्यधा(ध्या)तोत्र मंदिरे । यावत्सुरनदीं शवों
बित्ति शिरसा विभुः ॥ [२४*]. संवत् ११७३ ज्येष्ठ वदि ९ रविदिने देवोयं प्रतिष्ठितः ॥ कृता प्रशस्तिरियं शूद्रि]गपंडितेन लिखिता पंडित
हरिश्चं15 द्रेण । प्राचार्यपदस्थज्योति विद(द्) यशोदेवेन ज्ञातशास्त्रेणात्र प्रतिष्ठाविधिविहिता ।
[उत्कीर्णा च केसरिसूत्रधारेणेति ॥ शिवमस्तु ॥ अत्र देवे गोष्ठ]काः*]
सौलंकिकवंशीयवा(रा)जपुत्रश्रीऊपलरासुतश्रीसल16 खणरा ॥
No. 4-TIPPALURU INSCRIPTION OF VIKRAMADITYA II; YEAR 1
(1 Plate) ___H. K. NARASIMHASWAMI, OOTAGAMUND
The subjoined inscription was copied by me in the year 1937-38 at Tippalůru in the Kamalapuram taluk of the Cuddapah District. It is engraved on a red granite stone that was lying in a field on the road side about a mile to the west of the village. The stone has since been removed for safe custody to the village chávali. The inscription is edited below with the kind permission of the Government Epigraphist for India.
Tippalūru contains soine early vestiges of archaeological interest besides the record under review. A pile of dressed granite stones along with some mutilated sculptures among thein is all that is left of a temple of Siva with the image of Nandi still lying in front of it under a banyan tree in the centre of th> village. Among these broken sculptures is one of Surya, still intact with his seven steeds depicted at the base. Of greater interest than the image is a massive rod stone pillar measuring almost ten .feet in length, two feet square at the bottom tapering to about a foot square at the top and bearing an inscription, noteworthy for its palaeographic
[The reading seems to be bhaktishv.-D. C. S.) * This ti has been ungraved below the letter jyu. • Annual Report on S.I.E. for the year 1937-38, No. 286.