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and from three inscriptions at KAñchs. Aiyanna, the son of Appa Goppanna, is mentioned in another Kanchi inscription of Vira-Kampaņa-Udaiyar, the son of Bukkaņa-Udaiyar (No. 33 of 1890). The same inscription shows that Goppapa was a Brahmana, as it states that he belonged to the Apastamba-sútra and Bharadvája-gôtra.
It appears from the last paragraph that Goppana's sovereign, Kampaņa-Udaiyar, was the son of Bukkana-Udaiyar or Vira-Bokkaņa-Udaiyar. I feel no hesitation in identifying this Bukkaņa-Udaiyar with king Bukka I. of Vijayanagara, whose name appears as . Vira-BukkannaOdeyarı of Vijayanagara' in a Kanarese inscription of Saka-Samvat 1293, the Virðdhikrit year, at Bhatka!, and in identifying Kampaņa-Udaiyar with Chikka-Kampappa-Odeyaru, the son of Bakka 1.3 The word Chikka or Kumara, which is prefixed to the name of Kampaņa-Udaiyar in some of his inscriptions, is evidently employed to distinguish him from his uncle Kampaņa. In the pedigree of the first Vijayanagara dynasty Kampaņa-Udaiyar will henceforth appear as Kampaņa II., and his uncle as Kampaņa I. Mr. Taylor calls Kampaņa-Udaiyar the "general or agent" of Bukkaraya of Vijayanagara and states that he repaired the temple at Srirangam in Saka-Samvat 1293—the date of the subjoined inscription--and that he expelled the Muhammadan invaders from the Pandya country. Here we have a grain of truth among heaps of chaff. The existence, in the fourteenth century, of a dynasty of Musalman chiefs of Madhura is testified to by chronicles and coins, and Kampaņa-Udaiyar's conquest of the Pandya country is corroborated by an inscription of Saka-Samvat 1287, the Visvavası year, at Tiruppukkuli (No. 18 of 1899), which states that, "having taken possession of the kingdom of Rajagambhira, he was pleased to conduct the rule of the earth on a permanent throne." Rajagambhira is known to have been a surname of the Pandya king Jaţåvarman alias Kulasekhara, whose Tiruppûvapam plates are dated, according to Professor Kielhorn, in A.D. 1214. Hence the kingdom of Råjagambhira' seems to denote the Pandya kingdom, and it may be accepted as a historical fact that Kampaņa II., the son of Bukka I. of Vijayanagara, expelled the Muhammadans from Madhura. Two inscriptions at Tiruppullaņilo show him in possession of a portion of the Râmnad Zamindårt in Saka-Samvat 1293 and 1296. The fact that he claimed to be conducting the role of the earth' proves that he did not remain a subordinate of his father, but considered himself an independent ruler. His prime-minister (mahápradhani) Sômappa is mentioned in two of his inscriptions at Mêlpåļi (No. 89 of 1889) and Achcharapakkam (No. 250 of 1901). To return to Goppaņe, he seems to have taken part
1 South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. Nos. 88-88. When publishing these three inscriptions (op. cit. p. 117 f.), I represented Kampaņa-Udaiyar as the son of Vira-Kampaņa-Udaiyar on the strength of Tirumalai Inscription (ibid. No. 79). But, in the light of other records, I believe now that, in l. 21. of this record, frf-Vira Kampage. Udaiyar Kumdra-brf-Kampana-Udaiyar kwadrar ir-Ommana.Udaiyar bus to be translated by "Ommana. Udaiyar, the son of Vira-Kampaņa-Udaiyar (alias) Kumara-Kampaņa-Udaiyar."
Above, Vol. III. p. 36, note 1. An inscription of Vira-Bokkapa-Udaiyar at Vêppúr (No. 20 of 1890) is dated in the RAkshas year (i... Suka-Samvat 1297); another at Tirukkalakkanram (Madras Christian College Magasins of March 1892) in the Nala year (i... Saka.Samvat 1298)and one at Achcharapakkam (No, 256 of 1901) in Saka-Samyat 1298, the Nala year, See also Mr, Bice's Ep, Carn. Vol. IIL, Md. 90, MI, 23 and 76; Vol. IV., Ch. 113 and 117.
• Ep. Carn. Vol. III., Nj. 117; Vol. IV., YI. 64 and Gu. 32. . Above, Vol. III. p. 36.
Catalogue, Vol. II. p. 438 f. . See eg. Dr. Caldwell's History of Tinneelly, p. 42; Mr. Bewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. II. p. 222 1.; Captain Tufnell's Hinta to Coin-pollectors in Southern India, p. 39 f. and p. 66 ff.; and the late Mr. Bodgers' valosble paper in Jour, ds. Soo, Bengal, Vol. LXIV, Part I. p. 49 . No complete reading has yet been publiained of a silver coin which was figured on Tufnell's Plate vi. No. 3, and of which I possess a specimen; the obverse renda Ahaan Shah 788 (of the Hijra, ,c. A.D. 1837-38), and the reverse Al-Husainiyyu.
1 Irágagamblera.irdjyam kai-k kondu ati(athi)ra-aimhdeanathil pr[](Prithivirirdjyan pansi aruld:
pra. This passage and its bearing were first pointed out by Mr. Venkayya in one of the two Annual Reports which he drew up during my absence on furlough, & Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 289.
See page 801 above. Mr. Sewell's List of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 801 .
