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PITHAPURAM INSCRIPTION OF MALLIDEVA.
Some later inscriptions in the Kshfråråmêsvara temple at Palakôl mention two kings, Ganapatidevamaharaja or Ganapadevarāja (Nos. 520, 523,511 and 512 of 1893) and BhimaVallabhard.ja (Nos. 513 and 522 of 1893), to whose names the word Kona is prefixed, and who therefore appear to have been successors of the previously mentioned chiefs. The queen of the Mahamandalesvara Kona-Ganapadevaraja was Odayamahadhvi, the daughter of Mabadôvachakravartin of Nidudaprôlu, who bore the traditional surname Vishnuvardhana mahāra.ja (Nos. 510,511 and 512 of 1893) and may have been a descendant of the Eastern Chalukyas. The dates of Mahadeva range from Saka-Sanvat 1218 [expired], the Durmukhi samvatsara, to Saka-Samvat 1222 [expired], the Sårvari samvatsara; those of his son-in-law, Ganapati, from Saka-Samvat 118[4] to 1222; and one of the two inscriptions of Bhima-Vallabha is dated in Saka-Sainvat 1240.
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___4.-South Face. 1 • श्रीभर्तुर्बाभिगंभीरसरस्मरसिजादभूत् । पद्मभूम्भूतलोकाना2 मेकस्मादुद्भवो यत: । [१] मानसस्तस्य पुत्रोत्रिरत्रेरमृतदीधिति: [1*] सोम3 'वडामणिमीमवंशकर्ता ततो बुधः । [२] ततः पुरूरवा नाम चक्रवर्ती
सुविक्रमः । तस्मादायुरभूस्तस्मानहुषोध पुरुस्ततः । [३] तती जनमेजय5 स्ततः प्राचीशस्तस्मात्सयातिस्ततस्माब्बभौमस्ततो महाभौमः' [*] 'इ[मन6 कनरपतिषु गतेषु पा[ण्ड]ाम नरपतिरुहचूर्व [*] पुत्र[7]स्तस्य धर्मबो-' 7 मार्जननकुलसहदेवा: "पञ्चेंद्रियवत्यच्च स्युविषयग्राहिण: । त8 त्र [*] "यनादाहि विजित्य काण्डवमधो गं[*]डीविना वविणं (0)
युध्ये पाशुपतास्त्र9 मन्धकरिपोश्चालाबि" दैत्यान्बइन् [*] इंद्रा सनमध्यशायि जैना" यत्कालके10 यादिकान्जित्वा खैरमकारि वंशविपिनच्छेदः कुर्हाणाः विबोः । [४]
ततो नाद-18 11 बिमन्युस्तत: परिक्षिततो जनमेजयस्तत: "क्षेमकस्ततो नरवाहनस्ततशतानी
This is probably Nidadavola, nine miles south-west of Rajamahêndri; see Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 37.
From inked estampages, prepared by Mr. H. Krishna Sastri. + Read भूर्भूत and canoel the anusrāra of लीकानां. • Rend सीमचूडा.
- Read भूत्तस्मानहुषीथ. 'भीम: looks almoat like जीमः. 7 Read न्य.
- Read °बभूव.
• Read भीमार्जुन 10 Read पञ्चेन्द्रिय
Read येना. Read TT&T T (.e. Khandavam-ath); this reading is preferable to uryThat (South-Ind, Inser. Vol. I. p.53). " Read यजे.
u Read °लाभि.
Read जयिना. 10 Read कान्नित्वा; the form कालकेय is more correct than कालिकेय in South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. P. 63. IT Read कुरूणां विभोः
1 Read ततीर्नुनादभिमन्बु. 19 This form of the name is more correct than in South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. p. 53.
