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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. XI.
His ancestry is given as follows:
Tätapinnama of the lunar race of kings (1. 13) Somidēva (1. 15) Rāghavadàvarat (1. 16) Éri-Pinnama, the lord of the town of Aravida (1. 16)
Bukks who placed on a firm footing the kingdom of Saļuva(m. Ballāmbika)) Nrisimba (11. 17-18).
Ramaraja I 2 who captured the forts of Avanigiri and Kandanavola (m. Lakkambika) (Kurnool) and put to flight Kasappudaya (11.26-27).
Sri-Rangaraya (I) (v. 15)
(m. Tirumalâmbika)
Râmarāja II. (vv. 17-18)
Tirumalaraya (m. Vengaļāmba) (vv. 20-29)
Venkatādri (v. 19)
Śri-Rangaraya II, the donor (v. 30 ff.) Most of these details are found in the Kûniyûr plates of Venkata II.1 Sri-Rangariya II is reported to have captured several fortresses including the inaccessible Kondavidu and Vinikondapura from his camp at Uddagiri (Udayagiri in Nellore) and to have been residing at Penukonda (v. 31). He married two wives, vie., Tirumaladēvi and Krishnamba (v. 32). He reduced the Chaurasidurga (i.e. eighty-four hill forts, perhaps, in Mahärăshtra). He bore in his heart Särngadhara (i.e., the god Vishņu) (v. 35). Some of his biridas were Manniyan Samula (v. 36), Gandaragūļi and Manyapuli (v. 38). He was highly extolled as the vanquisher of Avahaļurāya and the king of Utkala (vv. 37-8). He was the lord of Āravidu and adopted the surnames Vérgyatribhuvanimalla (1. 102), Urigolasuratrāna (... Sultan of Oraðgal) (1. 103), Ranamukharāmabhadra (1. 104), Kalyāna purādhipa and Ohalikkachakravartin (11. 108-9). As suggested by Dr. Hultzsch the first and the fourth of these birudas were perhaps reminiscences of the Western and Eastern Chalukyas. He calls himself the suzerain of the Rattas and Magadhas (1. 107) Konarāni-kőfala-koriga, and Oddiyariya-diśāpatta (v. 45). With verse 53 commences the grant proper.
The date is expressed as the twelfth tithi (prathamaduādasitithau) of the bright fortnight of the month of Ashadha in the Saka year reckoned by the horses (7), the treasures (9), the Vēdas (4),and the moon (1) (i.e. 1497), the cyclic year being Yuva. This date falls in A.D. 1574 expired.
The grant was made before the god Ramachandra. The donee was Aubhalabhatta who belonged to the Käsyapa-gotra and was a follower of the Katyayana-sutra and the
1 Ind. Ant., Vol. III, pp. 288-9.
This is already known to us from two inscriptions published by Mr. Rice (Ep. Carn. Vol. VII, Sh. 83, and Vol. XII, Ck. 89); see Ind. Ant., Vol. XXXVIII, p. 94. • Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 270.
Sewell's Indian Calendar, p. LXXX. . Perhaps, the Ramavimin temple at Penagonda is referred to here. It may be noted in this connection that although the capital of this dynasty had been removed to Penugonds by king Tirumala, the father of the present donor, the name of the guardian deity occurring at the and of the grant is given as Sri-Virupakshs.
