Epigraphia Indica Vol 17

Author(s): F W Thomas, H Krishna Sastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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No. 2.]
TUMBAGI INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF SATYASRAYA.
Parameshthin (Brahma); who had advanced in the study of) the three Vodas'; who had mastered all sciences; who (possessed) & series of gifts to Brahmanas; who knew the sacred) law; (and) whose draughts of Soms were uninterrupted.
(Line 43.) Because he had obtained a boon from the god Parasurāmēsvara, Vijayāditya's Bon Vikramaditya granted, at the direction of his father, the confirmation, accompanied by all exemptions (parihara), to the chiefs of Brahmaņas residing in the village) called Viprapitha.
(Verse 21.) But the destroyer of enemies, that glorious son of Prabhumēru, requests all future rulers of the earth :
(Verse 22.) “Let there rest for ever on my head the pairs of feet of those (kings) who protect this confirmation granted to chiefs of Bråhmaņas !"
(Line 50.) This is the oomposition of Sivatama, son of Siva-bhattaraka. Hail! To cows and Brahmanas obeisance! This enlogy (prasasti) was written by Parahit-achari.
(Line 53.) The revenue assessment of this (village amounted to) five hundred kādi (of) paddy and ten-kalanju of) gold.
No. 2.-TUMBAGI INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF SATYASRAYA: SAKA 926.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT. Tumbagi, or, as the name was anciently spelt, Tumbige, is a village lying in lat. 16° 34' and long. 76° 20, in the Muddebiha! tāluka of Bijāpur District, and formerly was included in the Pagalatti Three-hundred. The name is given as “ Toombgee” on the Indian Atlas sheet 57 and as “Tumbgi" on the Bombay Survey sheet 350. It contains a monastery known as "Polayya's Math," at the well of which there is (or was) & stone inscribed with the present record. A bad copy was made by Elliot's pandit, and appears in Vol. I, fol. 17a. of the Elliot Collection (Royal Asiatic Society's copy). I now edit the text from good ink-impressions prepared for the late Dr. Fleet, which are now in the British Museum. The stone is a long narrow block, with an upper compartment in front containing sculptures, viz. in the centre a liriga on a stand, with an upright figure of a votary facing it on the proper right of it, and still further to the right a cow with sucking calf. Underneath this is the inscribed area, which seems to include three faces of the slab. The first face, containing 11. 1-17, is about 1 ft. 1 in. wide and 3 ft. high; the second, containing ll. 18-40, is about 10 in. wide and 3 ft. 7 in. high; the third, containing ll. 41-end, is about 3 ft. 8} in. high and 6 in. wide, except at the bottom, where it runs out towards the right to a width of 104 in., enclosing the last two lines. The character is fair Kanarese, somewhat inclined to angularity, with letters varying from 1 in. to 1} in. in height. Its whole tendency is towards the later type, rather than the archaic. The cursive v is found only in the ligature ruva (11. 51, 58).--The language is Old Kanarese, except for the concluding Sanskrit verses. We may note the sporadic change of m to v in -achchhādanavarn (1. 32) and mahājanaruvě (11. 43-4), and the conditionals ddade (1. 37) and appade (1. 45), which all shew a tendency towards the medieval dialect.
The record opens (11. 1-8) by referring itself to the reign of Akaļankacharita Ifivabedanga Satyasraya (Dynast. Kanar. Distr., p. 482), while his officer Setti Brahmayya was administering Tumbagi (11. 8-15), and registers gifts to local religious foundations by the latter and a lady named Āychakabbe, with rules for their management (11. 15 ff.).
achari, an artisan,' is a Tamil form of acharya.
• Puratu oscurs also in South-Ind. Inscr., VOL. II, p. 386, text line 99, and above, Vol. IV, p. 224, text line 19. For its meaning see the Madras Epigraphical Report for 1920, p. 96.
• The same measure in mentioned in South-Ind. Inscr., Vol. I, pp. 117, 140. • A notice of the inscription has been given by Dr. Flpet above, Vol. XII, p. 306.