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exploits were great (verse 17). His minister was Dāvarāja! who was famed for his wide charities (verse 18). He had four sons through his wife Lakshmi; they were respectively called Rāma, Tikka, Manchaya and Bētaya (verse 19). In the Saka year 1182, corresponding to the cyclic year Raudra, in the month Chaitra, on the day of the Solar eclipse in the dark fortnight, Tikka, the second of the said four sons, granted the village of Garavapāņu as an agrahāra, to fifty Brahmans of several götrass learned in the Vēdas (verses 20 and 21). The date, according to the late Dewan Bahadur L. D. Swamikannu Pillai's Ephemeris, corresponds to Monday (not given in the inscription) April 12, A.D. 1260. On this day there was & Solar eclipse as stated in the inscription.
The statement that Karikāla-Chõla fixed his capital at Kākati in Dakshiņāpatha is not found in any other known record of this dynasty, though Kalikāla (or Karikāla)-Chola as an ancestor of the family is mentioned in some. In a few records, however, 'Kakati' is referred to as a place with which its early members were connected. An unpublished epigraph refers to Kākati as the family city' (kulapura) of this dynasty. Another such epigraph refers itself to king Ganapatidēva of Kakatiyyapura.'
A chief named Käkartya Gundyana is mentioned in an unpublished copper-plate grant belonging to about A.D. 945 as a subordinate of the Eastern Chāļukya king Amma II.' The family to which the chief belonged is called Samantavoddi. The epithet 'Kākartya', which is evidently a variant of Kākatya, must, therefore, refer to a place to which the chief belonged. It is thus almost certain that Käkati' was an ancient place and the family name Käkati, Kākatya, Käketa or Kakatiya was based upon the original connection of its members with a town of that name and not upon the worship of any family deity as suggested by Kumārasvāmin [Burnell quoted by Fleet.-Ed.] the learned commentator of the Prataparudriya.. If the latter
1 Devaraja was not the only minister of the king for we are told that a certain Sivadēvayya was his Chief Minister (Lives of Telugu Poets by Viresalingam, Old Edition, page 36) who was looked upon as no less than a god, sivadovayya must have been identical with the great Saiva teacher Visvēsvara-Siva-Desika, the pontiff of the Golakimatha and the raja-guru of three kings among whom was King Ganapati (Epigraphical Report for 1917, page 123).
The commander Tikka has to be distinguished from his two contemporaries of this name viz., (i) the great poet Tikkans who wrote the latter fifteen parras of the Telugu Mahabharata and who is stated to have gone as an ambasador to the Court of Ganapati from king Manumasiddhi of Nellūru (Nellore) whose minister he was and (ii) the warrior Tikka, the cousin of the poet, who was the commander of the armies of Manumasiddhi. Siddha, the father of the last was minister under king Tikka, the father of Manumasiddhi (Lires of Telugu Poeta, pages 33 to 39). The name Tikka, it may be noted, is a contracted form of Tiruk-Kalatti' & Präkrit form of Sri-Kalahasti. The name was taken after that of the popular god Sri-Kalahastigvars at Kalahasti, Chittoor District, Madras Presidency. See Nellore Inscrip sions, A. 7, G. 45, G. 60, etc.
Though verse 20 of the inscription states that the village was granted to "fifty'Brahmans, actually only fortyniae Brahmans received shares. The fiftieth share was granted to Vallabhs of Srikakolanu viz., Srikakulam in the Divi taluk of the Kistna district. This is the god of the place who is known also by the name 'Srikakulesvars and has hoon popnlar from early times (se Mads Epigraphical Collection for 1883, Nos. 136-172). While making grante of apariran it was customary for ancient kings to provide shares for the local deities and for the Vidas, chiefly Rik And Yajus (above, Vol. XVI, p. 253, text line 273 and p. 283). The first eleven recipients of shares are of the Yaaka-pikira which is very rarely met with in these days. Yaska, the author of the Ninuita, was of this poira. His patronymio is Paingi in the Anukramans of the Atreyi-lakha (Weber Indische Studien, 1 71, n; 3396; Vedic Index by Maodonell and Keith, Vol. II, page 23). The Muni Yaka is mentioned in the brala yana-Srovarira (Utarardha) along with Vädhala, Mauna, Mauka, sarkarikshi, Särshți, Sävami, Salankayana, Jaimiri and Daivantyayana, most of whom were founders of götros,
• No. 204 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection for 1906.
No. 111 of 1902. • No. 1 of Appendix A to the Epigraphical Report for 1916-17.
Ind, page 117 1. . Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, p. 12.
