Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 04
Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ 84 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. [VOL. IV. which, as required by the description, has Velaigi for its eastern, and Siriparam for its southern boundary. Two other villages in the Gudda vadi district are Korumelli - the modern Korumilli, and Kalêru 3- the modern Kålêru. The inscription ends with the usual imprecations (1. 127 f.) and the statement that it was written by Kantacharya of Sripithåpuram (1. 135), who must be identical with Kanţâchåri, the writer of the first inscription. The grant proper is preceded by a long Sanskrit passage which contains genealogies (1) of the Eastern Chalukya dynasty and (2) of the chiefs of Kônamaņdala. The account of the Eastern Chalukyas agrees on the whole with the one given in the Korumelli plates of Rajaraja 1.5 and in the Chellûr plates of Vira-Chôda. An important statement which is missing in the two other inscriptions, occurs in line 25 f. where we are told that, of the two sons of Kirtivarman I., the elder, Satyasraya (Pulikėsin II.), took possession of the kingdom of Kuntala, and the second, Kubja-Vishnuvardhana I., of the country of Vengi. The list of the Eastern Chalukyas is continued only as far as Mangi-Yuvarája (1. 35), and verse 5 contains a reference to a king Råjaråja of the Châlukya family, who appears to be represented as reigning at the time of the inscription, and who is evidently identical with the Rajaraja on whom Prithvisvara of Velanându was dependent.7 Verses 6–32 supply a fairly long pedigree of the dynasty to which the two donors belonged. These two chiefs derive their descent from the mythical being Kårta virya, the son of Kpitavirys, grandson of Haibaya, and great-grandson of Hari, a descendant of Yadu (v. 6 f.). Their names, and their relation to each other, are given in the Table on page 85. The Arabic numbers which are prefixed to their names, indicate the order in which they are mentioned in the inscription. The 3rd chief in the list, Rajaparendu I., is called the lord of the Konamandala (v. 10); and the word Kóna is prefixed to the names Rajendra-Chôda I. (1. 61), Bhima III. (1. 68), and Mallidêva (1. 113). Hence it may be convenient to call this dynasty the chiefs of KÔnamandals. The country over which they ruled, is probably identical with Kônasima, the Telugu designation of the Godavari delta. The 5th prince, Rajendra-Choda I., is stated to have ruled over the country of Vengi (1.51), and to have assumed the insignia of sovereignty which had been conferred on his grandfather (Mummadi-Bhima I.) by the Rajadhiraja Rajendra-Chôda. As No. 8, Mallidêva, was ruling in Saka-Samvat 1117, the Rájádhiraja Rajendra-Chôda to whont his great-grandfather (Mammadi-Bhima I.) was tributary, has to be identified with the Eastern Châlukys king Rajendra-Choda or Kulôttunga-Chôda I. (Saka-Samvat 985—1034). We know that Kulottunga-Choda I. conferred the governorship of Vengi, successively, on his paternal uncle, Vijayaditya ; on his two sons, Rajaraja II. and Vira-Choda ;' and on Choda of Velan&ndu.io It is not probable that Mammadi-Bhima I. was another of the successive governors of Vengi : and the statement of the inscription that his grandson, Rajendra-Choda I., ruled over Vengi, appears to imply nothing more than that the Kônamandals was a dependency of the Vêngi conntry. 1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 275. * No. 120 on the Madras Surrey Map of the Ramachandrapuram Aluk. The north-western and northern boundary of Koromelli, -MAsara (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 55, text line 107 f.), is identionl with the modern Mature (No. 121 on the same map), and the southern boundarg,- Vanapalli, with the modern village of the same name (No. 46 on the map of the AmalApuram taluka). * Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 284 f. I now adopt the reading Kaldru instead of Köldre (South-Ind. Imer. Vol. I. p. 52), on the strength of Dr. Fleet's remarks (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 133, note 77). • No. 140 03 the map of the R&machandrapurain täluka. Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 48 ff. 6 South Indian Imeription, Vol. I. p. 49 ff.; and Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 423 f. 7 See above, p. 88 f. • See above, Vol. III. p. 287, note 3. • South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 51. 10 See p. 36 above.

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