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SANGUR INSCRIPTION OF DEVARAYA-MAHARAYA: SAKA 1329.
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Sunday, the 10th day of the bright half of Advayuja in the cyclic year Sarvvajit which fell in the Saka year 1329. The details of the date regularly correspond to Sunday, 11th September, A. D. 1407, f. d. t. 23.
The inscription is important in more respects than one. Firstly, this is a rare epigraphical instance of the Vijayanagara period which attributes the epithets of the Western Chalukya kings of Kalyāņa to king Devaraya. It is not possible to understand the exact significance of this departure since we are not in possession of any evidence connecting politically or otherwise with the Western Chalukyas, the Vijayanagara kings of the Sangama dynasty who rose into power nearly one hundred and fifty years after the downfall of the former. It may, however, be suggested that the locality where the inscription is found was fed strongly with the tradition that the Vijayanagara kings were the rightful successors of the Imperial Chalukyas inasmuch as they held the entire Chalukya territory, or the composer of the record had access to some political document of the Chalukyas and inadvertently copied its preamble while describing the king. It is, however, hazardous to surmise any blood relationship between the two families from a solitary record like the present one.
Secondly, the present record is the first epigraph so far known which bears a reference to Baichaveggade the minister of Kampilaraya and furnishes two generations after hini, viz.,. his son Senädhipati Sangama and grandson Madarasa. These officers are known to us for the first time, though Baicha-Dandanayaka figures as a minister of Kampiladeva in the Kannada works Paradara-sodara-Ramana-charite and Kumāra-Ramanathana Sangatya of the 16th and 17th centuries A.D. It further lends epigraphical confirmation to the authenticity of Kumāra Ramanatha who is not mentioned in the accounts of the foreign travellers of this period, though his relationship with Kampilaraya is not disclosed in the record. The Karnada works mentioned above supply us the information that he was the son of Kampila, waged successful wars against the Hoysala, Turushka and Telunga kings during the life time of his father and at last was killed in a battle with the Turushkas at Kummata. An undated inscription in a Siva temple in Hemakūta at Hampi records that Vira Kampiladēva, son of Mummadi Singeya-Nayaka constructed the Siva temple and set up the lingas therein in memory of his mother MädäNa[ya*]kiti, Singeya-Nayaka and Perumeya-Nayaka. Perumeya-Nayaka's relationship to Singeya is not stated in the record, though from the way in which he is mentioned, he appears to be Singeya's father. It is not improbable that Singeya-Nayaka installed the lingas for the merit of his father and grandfather. If this suggestion proves to be correct, one more generation would be added to the genealogy of Kampila which, from the records known so far, is given below:
Perumeya-Nayaka
?
Mummaḍi Singeya-Nayaka, m. Mādā-Nāyakiti
Vira Kampiladova
Kumāra Ramanatha
1 For further historical details gathered from these works, see the articles entitled Studies in Vijayanagara History and King Kampila and Kumara-Ramanatha by Mr. M. H. Rama Sharma in Q. J. M. S., Vol. XX and Supplement to it pp. 1-18 and Dr. N. V. Ramanayya's Kampila and Vijayanagara.
* No. 353 of 1934-35 of the Madras Epigraphical collection. In The Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Vol. I, p. 305, No. 335 evidently refers to this inscription. The cyclic year Saumya mentioned there is evidently a mistake as no cyclic or Saka year is quoted in it. This mistake has crept into the writings of Mr. Rama Sharma and Dr. Ramanayya.
