Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
A.-VOLUME III. Page 226.-When publishing the Âlampuņdi plate of Virûpåksha, I had to suspect its gennineness,
owing partly to the numerous mistakes which'it contains, and mainly owing to the absence of any reference to this son of Harihara II. in the published records of the first Vijayanagara dynasty. The historical information conveyed by the plate is however, confirmed now from an unexpected source. In his Report on a Search for Sanskrit and Tamil Manuscripts (p. 90), Mr. Seshagiri Sastri, Professor of Sanskrit at the Madras Presidency College, has published extracts from & Sansksit drama entitled Narayanivilása. This drama was composed by a royal anthor named Virûpåksha, who was the son's son (here the published reading putro, son,' has to be corrected into pautró, 'son's son ') of king Bukka, the daughter's son of king Råma, and the son of king Harihara. Of Virupaksha it is further said that he was the lord of the Karnata, Tuņdira, Chola and Pandya countries, that he planted a pillar of victory in the island of Simhals (Ceylon), and that he was devoted to the performance of the sixteen great gifts. In describing the genealogy of Virûpåksha and his conquests, the Âlampandi grant and the drama Núrayanioilasa are practically at one with each other. The performance of the
sixteen great gifta,' which is mentioned in the latter in connection with Virûpáksha, is attributed in the former to his father. There is no doubt whatever 88 to the identity of the author of the Sanskrit drama in question with prince Virûpåksha of the Alampundi grant. The former is more explicit in describing his relationship to king Rans, inasmuch as he is there called the daughter's son' of king Råma, while the latter simply says that his mother Mallådévi belonged to the family of Ramadàva.' It may therefore be concluded that Ramadêva, whom I proposed to identify with the Yâdava king Ramachandra (above, Vol. III. p. 225), had a daughter named Malladevi, who married Harihara II. of the first Vijayanagara dynasty, and that prince Virupaksha, who was born of this marriage,
made extensive conquests in Southern India.-V. Venkayya. Page 362, article Ariya-Pillai,' for m., read queen.
372, line 14, for Jina-kalpa, road Jina-kalpa. > > 13 from the bottom, read 'Kadamba, 8. a. Kadamba.'
B.-VOLUME IV. Page 195, 1. 10 ff.- Mr. Ramayya has kindly informed me through Dr. Hultzsch), that the
correct spelling of the modern name of the village is Dendulůru, not Dendaloru, as given in Mr. Sowell's Lists of Antiquities.-As regards the identification of other localities montioned in the Chikkulla plates, Mr. Sewell has been the first to write to me that Råviréva (in line 20) might be the village of Raveralah (Råvirôla) on the north bank of the river Krishội, just at the top of its great bend, long. 80° 10' E., lat. 16° 50 N. The same identification was afterwards suggested by Dr. Fleet and by Mr. Ramayya. Mr. Ramayya further writes that about six miles to the east of R&virêla there is the village of Navabapêta, with a temple of Somunáthasv&min which may bo the Sômagiri varanátha temple in line 23 of the inscription. The country in which the villages were situated is called NatCripați