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again. This would probably be about five years later,--say in A.D. 810. And it was doubtless this second imprisonment of Sivamara II. that let in his younger brother Ranavikrama to the Western Ganga succession.
A copper-plate grant from Udayêndiram in the North Arcot district' carries this line of descent three generations further: it mentions, in the lineage of "Konkani, the first of the whole Ganga race," - in which lineage, it says, following the spurious grants, there had been born Visbạngôpa, Hari (.e. Harivarman), Madbava, Durvinita, Bhůvikrama, and " other kings," Sivamára II. ;' his son Prithivipati I., otherwise called Aparajita; Marasimha I., "the light of the Ganga family," son of Prithivipati I.; and Marasimha's Bon, Prithivipati II., otherwise called Hastimalla, "& flamingo in the tank of the Ganga family." In the way of historical information, it tells us that Prithivipati I. saved Iriga and Nagadanta, sons of king Dindi,- one of them from Amôghayarsha, s.e. the Rashtrakůta king Amôghavarsha I. (A.D. 814-15 to 877-78), and the other from the jaws of death; that he fought a battle at a place named Vaimbalguli; and that he defeated the Påndya prince Varaguna in the great battle of Sripurambiya ;6 and that Přithivipati II. received from Madiraikonda-Parak@sarivarma-Parantaka, i.e. the Chôļa king Parântaka I. (about A.D. 900 to 940), “the dignity of lord of the Banas,"-.8. that Parantaka I. conferred on him the leadership of the Båņa kingdom, which is defined elsewhere as "the land to the west of the Andhra country." And it registers the fact that, at the request of Přithivipati II., Parântaka I., in the fifteenth year of his reign,-s.e. in or about A.D: 915,- converted the village of Kadaikkottur, together with Udayasandiramangalam (Udayêndiram itself), into a brahmadêya, or grant to Brahmans, which was then called Viranårayanachcheri after one of his own appellations. The record says that, from the time when the Bana kingdom was conferred on Prithivipati II., it was thought that he was born of the race of Bali, s.c. of the Baņa race; and the Tamil portion of it actually calls him Sembiyan-Mâvali-Vanaraya, meaning apparently, " (he who was appointed) Mahabali. Bånarâja (by) the Chola king." And it further discloses the fact that, while retaining the Western Ganga title of " lord of Nandi (ie. Nandagiri)," he took the title of " lord of the city of Parivipari," and assumed the banner of a black-buck and the crest of bull. It is thus evident that, like his connections who became Pallavas, Prithivipati II. turned himself regularly into a B&ņa.
1 Somewhere about the end of the time of sivamirs II, there was,- if the Kadaba grant (above, Vol. IV. p. 832) might be relied on, certain Chakirkja, who is described in that record as "king of the whole of the Ganga province," in A.D. 813. But I have not found spy trace of such a name in the Gangs records.
* South-Ind. Isocrs. Vol. II. p. 875. It was first brought to notice by the Rev. T. Foulkes, in the Manual of the Salem District, Vol. II. p. 869 ft. But it has only recently been made properly available, by Dr. Hultzsch's critical edition of it; and some remarks by me (above, Vol. III. pp. 166, 167), based on Mr. Foulkes' version of it, require alteration.
The synchronisms which the record establishes for Prithivipti I. and his grandson, and still more, the actual date of A.D. 915, or closely thereabouts, for the grandson -oblige us to identify this person with the second Sivamare, not with his grandfather of the same name.
• Dr. Hultzsch has suggested (above, Vol. IV. p. 182) that Prithivipati I. may be the Pirudi-Gargaraiyar who is mentioned in the Ambar records of the twenty-sixth year of Vijaya-Npipatung - Vikramavarman (page 169 above).
The modern Tirappirambiyam (the Thiraparambiam' of the Madras Portal Directory) in the Kumbbs. konam talaka of the Tanjore district (see South-Ind. Inacra. Vol. II. p. 881).
. An inscription of Parantaka I, at Sholingbur in the North Aroot district, six years earlier ju date (above, Vol. IV. p. 221), also mentions the conferring of the Başs kingdom on Prithivipati II, and the popular belief, from that time, that ho belonged to the Baņa race; it further gives him the name of Vira-Ohol®, and speaks of his defeating some up named enemy in the battle of ValA!a.
1 Above, Vol. III. p. 78, verse 7.
. In the Sbolingbur inscription (see the last note bat one) this name appears in a slightly different form Prithivipati II. is there called "the king of the people of Parivai."
