Epigraphia Indica Vol 10

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

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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INSCRIPTIONS ON THE CAVE-TEMPLE AT SAJUVANGUPPAM.
The inscription on the left of the cave (No. 23) records that this excavation was a temple of Siva, and that it was made by a king Atiranachanda who named it after himself Atiranachandeśvara, i.e, the Isvara (temple) of Atirapachanda' Verses 1, 2 and 4 are identical with three verses of the Māvalivaram inscriptions of Parameśvara (Nos. 20 and 21), and contain the birudas Atyantakāma, Srinidhi, Kāmarāga and Sribhara Other surnames of Atirapachanda were Ranajaya,. Anugraśila, Kalakala, Samaradhanamjaya and Samgrāmadhira. Most of these epithets are applied to Rajasimha in his inscriptions at Käñchi.
The inscription on the right of the cave (Nc. 24) is a Nagari copy of the first six verses of No. 23.
Above the entrance of the cave there are two identical inscriptions, according to which the full name of the temple was 'the Isvara temple of Atiranachaṇḍa-Pallava.' The first of these two short epigraphs ( No. 25) is in the same alphabet as No. 23, ard the second (No. 26) in the same Nagari characters as No. 24.
No. 23.
1 श्रीमतोत्यन्तकामस्य दिष [६] -
2
पहारिणः [*] श्रीनिधेः काम
3 रागस्य हराराधनसंगिनः ॥ [१]
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4 अभिषेकजलापूर चित्ररत्नाम्बुजाकर [i]
5 आस्ते विशाले सुमुखः शिरस्सरसि शंकरः ॥ [२*]
6 तेनेदं कारितं भोर्भवनं भूतये भुवः [1] के
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7 लासमन्दरनिभं भूतां मूर्ति तिष्ठता । [२] भक्तिम
8 च मनसा भवं भूषणलीलया [] दोया च यो भुबन्धसे 9 जीयाका श्रीभरfबरम् । [४] अतिरणचण्डः पतिरवनिभु
10 जामतिरणचण्डे परमिदमकरोत् [1] गिरितन
11 यागुहगणसहितो नियतक्कतरतिर्भवतु पशुप
12 fa: " [५* ]
गुर्व्वीमीशानमत्रिं श्रियमतिशयिनीं 13 निसामान्यच दानं समम[तिर] चण्डाख्यया [यो 14 स्थाने निम्नपितमि[िदितरपज ] यख्यातिना
तेन
15 मष्टमूर्त्तिविरमतिरणच [खेचर] यातु निष्ठाम् [4] 16 यदि न विधाता भरतो यदि न हरिर्नारदो
न
दुर्व्व भारमुळ्य
बिभर्त्ति ] [1*]
[भ]र्त्ता भूताना[य]मील[ ॥] अ[नुग्र]शील[:
वा स्कन्दः ["]
बोडुं क
17 समर्थस्संगीतं कालकालस्य " [७] ' ॥ समरधनच्चयः संग्रामधीरः ॥
श्र ॥
1 Madras Survey Map, No. 58. Carr's Seven Pagodas, Plate xv., pp. 59, 120, 222.-Nos. 2 and 3 of Carr's Plate xv. are two independent eye-copies of the same inscription (No. 24).
* Expressed by a symbol.