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TWO JAINA INSCRIPTIONS OF IRUGAPPA.
of prince Pandya, a Radheya (Karpa) in excellent gifts, the foremost of princes, who was ruling the noble kingdom of Puñjalike, consecrated here (the image of) the blessed Jina Gummaṭééa, the son of Adijina.
No. 15.-TWO JAINA INSCRIPTIONS OF IRUGAPPA.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.
A.-Dated in the Dundubhi year.
From an inscription on a lamp-pillar in front of a Jaina temple at Vijayanagara' it is known that the general Chaicha or Chaichapa and his son Iruga or Irugapa were hereditary ministers of king Harihara II. of Vijayanagara. An inscription at Sravana-Belgola states that the general Chaicha or Chaichapa had already been the minister of Bukkaraya, i.e. of Bukka I., the predecessor of Harihara II.
The subjoined Tamil and Grantha inscription (No. 41 of 1890) is engraved on the base of the north wall of the store-room in the Jaina temple of Vardhamâna at Tirupparuttikkupru3 near Conjeeveram. It records that the village of Mahendramangalam in the division of Mavaṇḍur was granted to the temple by the minister Irugappa, the son of the general Vaichaya. The donor is of course identical with Irugapa, the son of Chaichapa, who was mentioned in the preceding paragraph. He is stated to have made the gift for the merit of Bukkaraja, the son of Arihararaja, i.e. Bukka II., the son of Harihara II. Hence the Dundubhi year in which the grant was made must correspond to A.D. 1882. But Professor Kielhorn has shown that the details of the date do not work out correctly."
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1 Svasti ér[i] [*] Dundubhi-varsham Kåt[tig]ai-[m]âdatt[i]l Taga-kilamaiyum pauraiyum perra TA(k)tt[i]
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pûrvva-pakshattu
2 gai-nal mahamandalêsvaran Arihararaja-kumaran śrimat(d-)Bukkarajan dharmmam âga Vaichaya-danḍanâtha-putran
3 Jain-ôttaman Irugap[pa]-mahapradhani Ti[rup]paruttikkupru-nayanâr Trailôkyavallabharkku pûjaikku
4 sålaikkum tiruppanik[ku]m
Mâvanḍur-pparril Mahendramangalam nâr-pârk= ellaiyum irai-ili pallichchandam-âga chandr-âditya-varaiyum nadakka=ttaruvittår Dharmm[8]-ya[ñ=ja] yatu
TRANSLATION.
Hail! Prosperity! (In) the Dundubhi year, (on) the day of Kâttigai (Krittika), which corresponded to a Monday and to the full-moon tithi of the first fortnight in the month Kattigai,- for the merit of the glorious mahamandaléévara Bukkaraja, the son of Arihararaja,— the best of Jainas, the great minister Irugappa, the son of the general Vaichaya, caused to be
1 South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. No. 152.
Inscriptions at Sravana-Belgola, No. 82. The Subhakrit year in which this inscription is dated corresponds to A.D. 1422, and not to A.D. 1362 as Mr. Rice thinks.
No. 61 on the Madras Survey Map of the Conjeeveram taluks.
This is evidently Mamandûr, 5 miles from Conjeeveram; see Mr. Sewell's Lists, Vol. I. p. 166. I cannot identify Mahendramangalam.
Above, Vol. VI. p. 329, No. 1.
• From two inked estampages.
7 The syllable rai is entered below the line.
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