Epigraphia Indica Vol 10

Author(s): Sten Konow, V Venkayya
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 19

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vor.x.
No. 17. श्रीअत्यन्तकामपल्लवेवरगृह[म् ॥] रणजयः The holy isvara (Siva) temple of Atyantakāma-Pallava. Ranajaya (the conqueror in battle).
b.-West.
No. 18. अत्यन्तकामपनवेश्वरप्रहम् ॥ The Isvara (Siva) temple of Atyantakāma-Pallava.
B.-INSCRIPTION NEAR THE "GOPIS' CHURN” AT MĀVALIVARAM.
According to Mr. Venkayya, who discovered this and the preceding inscription (No. 18) quite recently, No. 19 is engraved 'on a pillar of the rock-cut mandapa south-west of the " Gopis' Churn." It is in the same alphabet as No. 23 and consists of a single biruda.
- No. 18.
श्रीवामांकुमः। The glorious Vāmánkusa (bearer of a handsome elephant-goad).
C.-INSCRIPTION AT THE "GANESA TEMPLE," MAVALIVARAM. This inscription records that the monolith on which it is engraved was a temple of Siva and had been called the Isvara temple of Atyantakāma-Pallava' by its bailder, king Atyantakama. This prince bore the surnames Srinidhi, Sribhara, Ranajaya, Tarunankura, Kamarāga, and several others. His actual name seems to have been Para mēsvara.3
No.20. 1 सम्भवस्थितिसंहारकारणं वीतकारण: [*]
भूयादत्यन्तकामाय जगतां काममइन: । [१] 2 अमायश्चित्रमायोसावगुणो गुणभाजन: [*]
स्वस्यो निरुत्तरो जीयादनीशः परमेश्वरः [॥ २] 3 यस्याष्ठभराक्रान्तः कैलास: सदशाननः [*]
पातालमगमन्मूर्दा श्रीनिधिस्तम्बिभर्त्यजम् ॥ [२] 4 भक्तिप्रहेण मनसा भवम्भूषणलीलया [*]
दोष्णा च यो भुवो भारतीयात्म श्रोभरश्चिरम् [॥ ४*]
The anustära of at is doubtful. * Madrar Surney Map, No. 24. Carr's Sovon Pagodas, Plate xiv, pp. 67, 221, 224. Barnell, South-Indian Paleography. 2nd edition, p. 38, notes.
* See below, p. 9, note 4.
• Here and in No.1, lines, the correct reading would be दीपापबी भुवं पत्ते, which is found in verse of No. 23 and 24.