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642.- Ep. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 26. Tandalam Tamil rock inscription of the 10th year of the reign) of Satti (Sakti), the king of the Kadavas, s.e. Pallayas, recording the building of a sluice :
In the year) twice five (i.e. ten), which was engraved on palm-leaves, from the year when (the name of) Satti, the king of the Kadayas, was entered on a gold leaf."
643.- Mysore Insor. No. 115, p. 212; PSOOI, No. 226. Nandi (Bhôga-Nandi) Kanarese inscription of a Pallava Nolambadhiraja.
644.- Ep. Ind. Vol. V. p. 51, and Plate. Rayakta (formerly Sir W. Elliot's, now British Museum ?) Sanskrit and Tamil plates of the 14th year of the reign) of [the Ganga-Pallava) Skandasishya (king Vijaya-Skandasishyavikramavarman), recording a grant made at the request of his fondatory) MahAvali-Vanaraja.
Mythical genealogy from Brahman to Aśvatthåman; his son (?) by a Naga woman was the Adhiraja Skandasishya ; in his family was born the Skandafishya who issued this grant.
645.- Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 360, and Plate. Kil-Muttugür (now Madras Museum) Tamil memorial stone of the 3rd year of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasimhavarman.
646.- Ep. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 178, and Plate facing p. 182. Kil-Muttugur (now Madras Museum) Tamil inscription of the 18th year of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasimhavarman.
647.-Dp. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 23, and Plate. Bangavadi Tamil memorial stone of the 24th year of the reign) of king Vijaya-Narasimhavikramavarman, recording the death of a servant of a Bana chief named Skanda (Skanda-Bapadhiraja).
648.-Hp. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 321, and Plate. Siyamangalam Tamil cave inscription of the 3rd year of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, recording the building of a mandapa by a certain person with the permission of a Ganga chief named Nergutti, who must have been subordinate to Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.
649.-South-Ind. Insor. Vol. III. No. 43, p. 93. Tiruvallam (Bilvanathesvara temple) Tamil inscription of the 17th years (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman, recording a grant which was made at the request of MÅvali-Vâņaraya alias VikkiramadittaVanaraya (i.e., according to Dr. Hultzech, probably the Båņa king Vikramaditya I. of No. 663).
650.-South-Ind. Insor. Vol. I. No. 108, p. 130. Notice of a Saduppêri (near Velar) fragmentary Tamil inscription of the 52nd year of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman.
651.-South-Ind. Insor. Vol. III. No. 42, page 91, and Plate. Tiruvallam Tamil rock inscription of the 62nd year (of the reign) of king Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman," while the
1 According to Dr. Hultzsch perhape of about the second half of the 9th century A.D.
"This seems to refer to some custom observed at the coronation of a king."
See Dr. Pleet's Dynasties, p. 332.
• The alphabet according to Dr. Hultzsch is more developed than that of Nos. 628 and 635, but more archaic than that of No. 670.
An hereditary designation of the Båns chiefs. • Identical with Nandivarınan, the father of Vijaya-Nripatungavarman in No. 652.
7 The inscription professes to be a copy of a stone inscription which existed before the mandapa of the temple had been pulled down and re-erected.
. For anotber inscription of the 17th year of the same king see below, under Addenda.
For inscriptions of the 9th and 47th years of the same king Bee South-Ind. Inger. Vol. I. Nos. 124 and 125, p. 133.
