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(VOL. XXXII suffixes fakti, jiya, siva and rābi were generally affixed to the names of the more extremist seots of the Saiva school. Although therefore most of the Brāhmaṇas participating in the diksha of Vikramaditya I, including his preceptor Sudarsana, thus appear to have belonged to the more moderate and rational school of Saivism, a few of them were ascetics of the extremist orders. This fact again seems to suggest that there was no general antagonism between the sober and extremist sects of the followers of Siva at least in the Kannada country during the seventh century A. D.
. Of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, Vanavāsi and Uttarāpatha are wellknown. As suggested by Sarma, the village of Martūra, where the king was staying at the time of making the grant, may be one of the two localities called Chinna Marruru and Pedda Marruru on the bank of the Krishna in the present Kollapuram Taluk of the Mahbubnagar District. There is a ruined temple at Chinna Marruru. It seems that the king visited the village for his initiation ceremony and that Sudarsanācharya was a resident of the said locality. The name of the Vamguravādi vishaya seems to be preserved in that of the modern village called Vāmgūru in the Kalvaparti Taluk of the same District, about 40 miles from the villages called Marrūru. Pandit Sarma who published the inscription in the Bhārati is inclined to identify Iparurikal with the prefent village of Vipanagandla about 10 miles from the localities named Murrūru.
TEXT [Metres : versus 1, 3-5 Anushļubh ; verse 2 Aryā.]
First Plate
1 Jayaty=āvishkritau Vishņõr=vvārāham kehçõbhit-ārņņa]vam(vam ) dakshina
nnata-dam2 shţr-agra-visrānta-bhuvanam vapuh ||| 1*] Arīmutāti sakala-bhuvana-sariistuyama3 na-Māna[vya]-sagötrüņā[111*]_Häritīputrāņāı sapta-loka-mātsibhis=sapta : 4 Mätfibhir-abhiva[r*]ddhitānāri Kā[r]ttikēya-parirakshaņa-prāpta-kalya5 pa-[pa]ramparāņāı Bhagavan-Nārāyaṇa-prasāda-su māsādita6 Varāba-lañchhan-ēkshana-kshaņa-vasikpit-āšēsha-mahibhřitām 7 Chalikyānām kulam-alankarishạõr=Aśvamēdha-ūvabhřim(bhri)tha-snāna-pa
Second Plute, First Side 8 vitrikrita-gütrasya sri-Polikēki-vallabha-mahärājasya 9 prapautrah parūk[k]ram-ākrānta-Vanavāsy-ādi-para-nipati-mandala10 pranibaddha-visuddha-kirttē[h*) sri-Ki[r]ttivarmma-prithiv[i]vallabha-ma11 hārājasya pautras=samara-saniisaktu-sakal-Ottaräpath-ēsva12 ra-bri-Harshavarudhana-parājay-õpalabdha-Paramāśvar-apura13 nămadhiyasyu Satyasraya-Sriprithiv[i]vallabha-maharaja 14 dhiraju-paramëśvarasya priya-tanaḥ pratit-ānēka-sama
1 Op. cit., p. 171
. From impressions. • koad anaval. . . .
