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154 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL. XXVIII 22 sha-sâ(sā)str-agama-jñāna-manõjña-si(4)laḥ | Vishạ-ūpamo Vishpur-iti prasiddhastataḥ
sutaḥ prādurabhūt-prasa(sa)syaḥ || 23 | 15 | Rāhu-grasthē(stē) rajani-tilakë Kārttikē pamchadasyām(syām) kritvå hast-odakam=
iha mahā-Sraddhayā Madhya-dēsa (bē) [I*] sarvv-a24 dâyaiḥ se ha Vuqukuni-grāmam=atyamta-ramyam Prithvidēvo narapatir=adād=Vishộavē=
s mai dvijāya || 16 il Sam(Sam)kham bhadra25 sanam chchha(chha)traṁ gaj-āsva(sva)-vara-vābanam | bhūmi-dānasya chihnāni phalam
svarggah Purandara || 17 || Sva-dattām para-dattă[m*J vå " . 26 yo harēta vasundharam sa vishthāyāṁ krimir-bhūtvā pitsibhiḥ saba majjati || 18 ||
Samvat 890 Mārgga va di 27 11 Ravau |
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No. 28. - TWO INSCRIPTIONS OF KAMPÁNA FROM MADAM
(1 Plate)
V. VENKÄTASUBBA AIYAR, MADRAS The two subjoined inscriptions A and Be are engraved, one on either side of the entrance to the Southern gopura in the second präkāra of the Tatäkapurisvara temple at Madam in the Wandiwash taluk of the North Arcot District in the Madras State. Both the records are in a good state of preservation and are engraved in Tamil. One is in prose and the other in verge, but both refer to the same event.
Record A in prose, is dated in Saka 1285, Sobhakrit (A. D. 1362-63) in the reign of the Vijayanagara ruler Kampana Udaiyar. It states that Gandaragūļi Māraya-Nāyaka, son of Sömaya-Dannāyaka, captured Venrumaņkonda Sambuvarāya and Räjagambhiranmalai and that he celebrated the victory by constructing the gopura called 'Gandaragūļi-Mārayanāyakkantirukkopuram ' in the second präkära of the temple of Tiruvagnisvaramudaiya-Mahādēva at Kulattūr. The figure of a fine bull facing the proper left, with a sword and crescent above and a lamp-stand in front, is carved at the left hand corner of the record. Record B without date, narrates in verse the same facts given in A with some poetical embellishments. The figure of a caparisoned bull with a dagger in front, pointing downwards, is engraved to the right of this record. The importance of these epigraphs lies in the historical information that they contain, viz., that Gandaragūļi Māraya-Nayaka overcame the resistance put up by the Sambuvarāyas against the expansion of the Vijayanagara sovereignty by capturing Venrumaņkonda Sambuvarāya and his stronghold, the fortress of Rājagambhiran malai.
Before proceeding to discuss the contents of these inscriptions it will be of interest to study how the political situation in the Tamil country was favourable for the rise to power of the Sambuvarāya family to which this Vepsumaņkonda Sambuvarāya, the contemporary of Kampaņa II belonged.
* No. 267 of 1919 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection. * No. 268 of 1919 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection.
. The god is now known as Tatākapurisvara. [In the two inscriptions edited below the god is called Kulattör. Aludaiyar and Kulandai-valampadisvara, Loth equivalent to Tatakapur svara. Kulandai may be taken to be the poetic form for Kulattur ; of. Kalandlai for Kalakkudi. (Above, Vol. XXIII, p. 283, n. 5).-Ed.]
