Epigraphia Indica Vol 03

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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Professor Aufrecht, he died in A.D. 1387. All that we can at present gather regarding the genealogy of Madhava and Sâyana, is as follows:
Madhava, minister of Bukka I.
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Mayans, married śrimati.
Sayana,
minister of Samgama II. and of Harihara II.
1 Catalogus Catalogorum, p. 711. • Read स्वाधीनीदार.
According to Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 142, Bitragunța, the first of the villages granted, is situated 7 miles south by west of Kavali, which is 32 miles from Nellûr (Nellore) and is the head-quarters of the Kavali talukâ in the Nellore district. Its situation is described in the inscription as being 3 yojanas north of the town of Vikramasimhapura in the district called Pakavishaya, which was situated on the shore of the Eastern ocean, i.e. the Bay of Bengal (verse 19). I do not know if the name Vikramasimhapura still exists; but the name Paka survives in the name of a certain sect of Telugu-speaking Sûdras in the Mysore territory, who profess to come from Pâkanâḍu, the country of Pâka, and are as such called Pâkanatis. The other village, Simkêsari, is said to be situated in the district called Mulikidėsa on the northern bank of the Pennâ, e. the well-known Pennér river, and to the north of the Saiva temple at Pushpachala (verse 24), which is identical with Pushpagiri, 8 miles north of Kadapa (Cuddapah). A native of Pushpagiri informed me that close to Pushpagiri is a village named Sunkésaru, which appears to be the same as the Simkésari of the grant. It may be also remarked that a certain class of Smårta Brahmanas, who call themselves Mulikinâḍuvaru, profess to have emigrated from the Muliki country. The other places. mentioned in the inscription as the boundaries of the two villages (verses 22 and 25) I am unable to identify. But so much is certain that Samgama II. held portions of the present Nellore and Cuddapah districts, while his uncle Bukka I. was reigning at Vijayanagara. Samgama II. can scarcely have been dependent on Bukka I., as he would have otherwise referred to the latter as his overlord in his inscription. The fact that he represents his own father Kampa as the actual successor of Harihara I. also suggests that he considered himself entirely independent of Bukka I.
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First Plate; First Side.
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हरेलीलावराहस्य देश
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दंडम पातु वः । हेमा
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द्रिकळशा य[न]
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धात्री च्छल
5 श्रियं दधौ ॥ [१]
6 अस्ति प्रस्तूयमानप्रवल
7 fryingcftremity.
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दारसारस्यगितरिपुन्नुपोहामसंग्रा
Bhoganatha, court-jester of Samgama II.
From the original copper-plates and ink-impressions of them. • Read पी.