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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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As noted above, Govindaraja bad married Vinayavati, whose father, Vikramāditya, is described in II. 42-3 as chatur-ddiy-adhipa 'lord of the four directions'. This suggests that Vikramāditya was a powerful king. And the only renowned king of this name at that period, that is to say, about the middlo of the 8th century A. D., could be Vikramaditya II of the Western Chalukyas of Bādāmi, whose reigu is placed between A. D. 733-34 and A. D. 746-47.1 It is, therefore, plausible to identify Vinayavati's father with Vikramaditya II.
The object of the inscription is to register some gifts of land near the village Komāramangala in the Pudukanda vishaya to one Nilakantha, the youngest of the five sons of Nilakantha of the Harita yötra and the Pravachana charaña.
It is not clear who the donor of the grant was. The reading vijñāpitūya putrāya Duygamirāya, etc., in II. 47-8, has to be construed with Sripurusha-prathana-nämdheyena Prithuvi-konganimahārījena in II. 37-8. The engraver seems to have omitted something here and hence the difficulty about the anvuya. We may, however, interpret the whole passage as follows: At the request of his queen kañchiyabba, Duggamara obtained the grant from his father Sripurushu and in turn made it over to a Brahmana. The name of this Brāhmana and the details of the grant have been given subsequently in the text. The grant seems to have been made for the benefit of Kañchiyabba's btother Indarija, whose death is referred to just before the grant-portion is the text.
The date of the inscription is given in II. 50-1 as Saka 693, Chantra(Bhadra)pada Sukla 2, Uttara-Phalguni nakshatra, Sukravüra, which regularly corresponds to Friday, 16th August A. D. 771, when the nakshatra was Uttara-Phalguni. The way in which the number 93 is expressed, viz., navati-tri-samvatsara is not correct Sanskrit. It may, however, be due to the influence of the Dravidian style.
As regards the places mentioned in the record, the village Komāramangala is to be identified with Komaramangalam in the Tiruchengole taluk of the Salem District. It lies at a distance of about 30 miles from Salom where the plates were found. The List of Villages in the Madras Presidency gives a number of places in the Salem District, which go by the name of Pudur. One of them may be identified with the Pudukanda of the inscription."
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First Plate 1 Om Svasti jitam=bhagavatā gatu-ghana-gagan-abhēna Padmanabhīna [l*) Śrimat-Jāhua
vēya -kul-amala-vyo2 m-avabhasana-bhāskara-sva-khadg-aika-prahāra-khandita-naha-sila-stumbha-labdha-bala
parākra3 mo dāruņ-āri-yana-vidāran-Ōpalabdha-vrana-vibhūshana-bhūshitaḥ Kārvāyana-sagotrah
Srimat-ko4 nyanivarmma-dharmma-mahādhirājah? tusya putraḥ pitur=anvāgata-guna-yuktū vidyā.
vinaya-vihita5 vřittaḥ samyak-prajā-pălana-mātr-adhiyati-rājya-prayõjano vidvat-kavi-kāñchaua-ni
kashi-o
* Bom. Gaz., Vol. I, pt. ii, Chart opposite p. 336. *I am obliged to Mr. N. Lakshminarayan Rao, for his kind suggestions in connection with this article. . From the original plates and inkod estampages. Expressed by a symbol.
Road: Srimaj-Jahnaveya-. . • Bottor read : -bhaskarab vaPero sandhi has not been observed.
