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No. 13.)
UDAYENDIRAM PLATES OF VIKRAMADITYA II.
dhiraja and many other Bapa princes had passed away, then there was born in this
family1. Jayanandivarman (1. 20), who ruled the land west of the Andhra country.
His son was2. Vijayaditya I. (1.23); his son3. Malladêve, surnamed Jagadēkamalla (1. 28); his son4. Banavidyadhara (1. 31); his son5. Prabhumêrudêva (1. 34); his son6. Vikramaditya I. (1. 37); his son7. Vijayaditya II., also named Pugalvippavar-Gandal (1. 39); and his son was the
donor 8. Vijayabahu Vikramaditya II., who is stated to have been a friend of a certain
Kfishnaraja (1. 43). The odd plate contains part of an inscription which recorded a grant made by the same king in favour of some Brahmaņs; and this existing portion of it gives the genealogy of the king commencing with Prabhumêrudêva.
These inscriptions are not dated, but they may be assigned with some confidence to about the middle of the 12th century A.D.; for Dr. Hultzsch has shown that the king Bånavidyedhars of the above list probably lived during the first half of the 11th century of our era, because he married a grand-daughter of the Ganga king Sivamaharija, whom Dr. Hultzsch has shown to have reigned between A.D. 1000 and 1016.
The place Udayêndumangala, mentioned in the above, has already been identified by Mr. Le Fanu: with Udayêndiram, where the plates are now preserved.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1 Svasti sri[h*] | "Yat-tat[t*]va-prakatiksitáv=atitaram vêdô=pin=&ļam yata[b] 2 sti(sthi)ty-utpatti-layas=samasta-jagatâm
yan(m)-manvate
y83 ginaḥ
[1] Bgåtsha-namra-surendra-brinda-makuta-vy&lina-ranna(tng)va4 li-son-[m*]su-vraja-rañjit-anghri-ynga!
bhůtyai
Si5 Vas=sô=stu vaḥ TID[19] Kshi(kshi)rôdam mathitum-manôbhir-atulam? 6 dêv-&surair=Mmandaram
bitvrakshipta iv=Âñjanâdrir=iva 7 s-tatr=&dhikam råjatê [1] yộ bhôgi(gi)ndra-nivishta-mů [r*]ttir=ani8 sam bhdyô=mpitasy=&ptayê rakshe[d*]=vaḥ sura-brinda-vandita-pata(da)-dva9 dyvah saa Narayanah (ID 21 Yah prád&d=asur-adhipd makha-vare dadv(ttv)=&10 [r]gghamm=&dyêyalô gôm sa-dvipâm Ba-characharậmm=adhimndi 11 dê
ya
[According to an unpublished Tamil rock-inscription on the bill of Paficha-'Andava-Malai Dear Arcot, Pagalvippavar-Ganda, i.e. the disgracer of famous (kinge),' was also the name of the father of a local chief, called Vira-Chols, who made a grant to Tirupp&p-Malaidēva (ie, to the Jaina temple on the top of the Paficha. Paņdava-Malai hill) in the 8th year of the reign of K8-Rajaraja-Kesarivarman (i.6. in A.D. 992).- E. H.]
* See Dr. Haltzsch's Progress Report for October 1889 to January 1890, pp. 8 and 4, and his Annual Report for 1891-92, p. 4 f., where the date of the Chos king Rajardja, and, consequently, of the Gangs king Sivamab&rdja, is corrected.
See his Preface to the Salem Manual, Vol. I. p.iv. f. • From an impression supplied by Dr. Hultzsch.
Metre : Sardalavikridita; and of the two next verses. Read adkahan-Hamra..
7 Mathitum-manóbhiḥ is evidently intended to be & compound; but the proper form would be mathitumanóbhin.-Rend atulan. . Read dhikai.
Read-drandtassa. * Read rohumaadydya gái sa-dolpan. 11 Read charama.
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