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(L. 73.) To Bhattadêva,' who has drawn up the charter concerning Pedda-Kaluchuvubarru, the venerable Arahanandi has given, as a present, land requiring as seed 9(?) puttis of twelve túmus (each), (which he received) from the cultivators, (possessing) two bullocks, at Gumsimi (?).
No. 26.- FOUR INSCRIPTIONS AT SOLAPURAM.
By E. HOLTZSCH, PH.D. Mr. G. Venkoba Rao, one of my assistants, lately visited śôlapuram, a village about 8 miles south of Vellore, and copied a number of inscriptions, of which I am now publishing the four most interesting ones.
The ancient name of Solapuram was Kättuttumbûr (B. and D. below), which was included in Pangala-nadu, a subdivision of the district of Paduvûr-kôţtam (B. below). In inscriptions of the Chola kings Rajaraja I. (No. 421 of 1902) and Kulottunga I. (Nos. 422 and 425 of 1902), the village is called Uyyakkoņdân-Śôlapuram and is stated to have belonged to Mugai-nadu, & subdivision in the north of Pangaļa-nadu, a district of Jayangonda-Śôlamandalam. From other inscriptions we know that Pangala-nadu included Velurppadi, a suburb of Vellore, and that Tirumalai near Polür belonged to Mugai-nadu.
Vol. I. of South Indian Inscriptions contains one inscription from Solapuram (No. 33), which I now republish (B. below) because my former transcript of it was not quite correct. A fresh copy (No. 422 of 1902) of another Solapuram inscription which was noticed in SouthIndian Inscriptions, Vol. I. (No. 96), enables me to add that this record opens with the words Pugal-mádu vilanga and hence belongs to Kulôttunga 1.7 and that it mentions the temple of RÂjarajesvara at Uyyakkopdan-Solapuram, which, as well as Rajendra-Cholêsvara, is perhaps * later designation of the Nandikampiśvara temple.
A.-INSCRIPTION OF VIJAYA-KAMPA. This inscription (No. 429 of 1902) is engraved on a long stone broken in three pieces, which were dug up by Mr. G. Venkoba Rao in a tope of trees opposite the ruined Isvara temple at Solaparam.
The inscription consists of 2 mutilated Sansksit verses in the Grantha character, and a Tyssage in Tamil prose which is incomplete at the end. The Tamil portion is dated in the 8th year of king Vijaya-Kampa. The archaic alphabet of the inscription makes it probable that this king is identical with Kampavarman, whose inscriptions at Ukkal are dated in the 10th and 15th years. As I shall show further on (p. 196 below), he was perhaps a son of the Ganga-Pallava king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman and hence belonged to the ninth century of the Christian era.
The Tamil portion records that a chief named R&jaditya built a temple of Siva and a tomb in memory of his deceased father Přithivigangaraiyar and apparently made a grant to a Brahmana. The mutilated Sanskřit portion contained a genealogical account of this Rajaditya. His earliest ancestor was Madhava of the Gangeya family, whose son was "he who was renowned as the splitter of even a stone-pillar." In the inscriptions of the Western Gangas, this
This passage is in Telugu. I am indebted to Dr. Hultzsch for the translation of it. * No. 95 on the Madras Survey Map of the Vellore tåluks.
An inscription of Parantaka I. (No. 423 of 1902) mentions Solapuram as 'Kattuttumbůr in Pangala-Dida' od Vellore as Velur alia. Paramé varamangalam compare South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. No. 110.
• For other divisions of Padu vůr-köttam see ibid. Vol. III. p. 89. . Above, Vol. IV. r. 83.
6 South-Ind. Inrer. Vol. 1. Nos. 67 and 68. 7 Sce ibid. Vol. III. p. 126.
See ibid. Vol. 1. No. 97. See y. 196 below.
10 South Ind. Inser. Vol. 111. No. 8 and 6.
