Epigraphia Indica Vol 26

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 109

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XXVI.
metal, that floats on the white umbrella held over the golden litter covered with red cloth, inlaid with peacock feathers in its inner side and with chowries hanging down (from it), who is a devout worshipper of Siva, who has acquired (title to) the five mahāśabdas (and), who meditates on the feet of his father and mother, being in good health ;
(LI. 24-32) duly honours, intimates to, enquires after the health of and commands all those that will in course of time be, (viz.,) chiefs, princes, all the inhabitants of the country headed by Brāhmanas, feudatories, functionaries along with the karanas, and others of the class of Chăța, Bhata and Vallabha, dependent on the king, in the Pötödā vishaya included in the Airavatta mandala: “Be it known to you that the income of the village Lambēva", along with its land and water, along with its pits and their contents, included in this vishaya (of Potoda), up to the four well-known boundaries, has been granted by Us, by means of a copper-plate charter, for the increase of the glory and religious merit of our parents and of Ourself, to Bhatta Brahmadhara, son of Saktidhara, son of Adityadhara, hailing from Pundravardhana, a member of the Bhatta community of Jambama-Nārāyanapura, a student of the Kaņva sūkhā of the Yajurvēda, belonging to the Krishnätrēya götra, a hoti having the triple pravara of) [ Atreya-] ĀrchanānasaSyāvāśva,..... Wherefore, seeing this copper charter and having regard for our deed, nobody should cause any obstruction to him while he is regularly enjoying the seasonal yields of the
gift).”
(LI. 32-35) [Here follow four of the customary verses.]
No. 8.-A NOTE ON THE DATE OF CHOLA GANDARADITYA.
By A. S. RAMANATHA AYYAR, B.A., MADRAS. In the short interval of about 32 years between Parāntaka who ruled from A.D. 907 to at least A.D. 953, and Rajarāja I whose date of accession was A.D. 985, five members, viz., Rajakēsarin Gandarāditya, Parakësarin Ariñjaya, Rajakësarin Sundara-Chola, Parakēsarin Aditya II and Parakësarin Uttama-Chöļa, have to be acoounted for. As they are usually designated in inscriptions, by their dynastic titles of Parakēsarin or Rājakësarin, their identity has to be determined only by the internal evidence in the records, if any. The exact periods when these kings ruled are also not specified, except in the case of Parakēnarin Uttama-Chola whose date of accession has been fixed to be A.D. 969-70%.
With the help of three records belonging to a Rājakesarivarman copied from the Trichinopoly District, all of which are palæographically attributable to the 10th century A.D. and
[ This epithet, I think, is to be split up into two, one ending with avabhasamāna and the other beginning with sitadhatu. Their construction is rather clumsy, but the first evidently describes the king's sedan (dollikd) and the second the royal banner over the palace. They may be translated as follows: "whose gold medan decorated with a red cloth, is flanked y suspended chowries, has its interior furnished with the feathers of the peacock's tail (their eyes being seen prominently), (and) shines forth with a white umbrella (spread over); whom banner with a snake (emblem) is surmounted by an alligator made of white metal (siladhatu)".-B.C.C.]
* This seems to be the translation of gram-odaya. The word udaya does also mean "income' but its adjuncts sa-jala-sthalah, etc., do not justify the reading udaya in the text. The intenue reading as suggested above (p. 79, n. 6) is probably gråmõ='yam, in which case the gift consists of the village itself.-B. C. C.)
[See above p. 79, n. 5.-Ed.)
There is a solitary rooord dated in the 48th year of the king at Vanamaladinne in the Chittoor District (No. 200 of 1931-32 of the Madras Epigraphical colleotion).
No. 456 of the Madras Epigraphical collootion for 1908,