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SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
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SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.B.
(Continued from p. 78.) No. XXIX.
the ruined town of Hampe is still known. THIS and the following two inscriptions Whether Pampa' is another name of the
1 carry us one step further in the Western Tungabhadrâ, I cannot say. But this conChâluky a genealogy, being Sanskrit copper- junction of names leaves no doubt as to the plate charters of Vinayaditya-Satya- neighbourhood in which Vinayaditya's sraya, the son of Vikrań aditya I. of my camp was pitched at the time of making this last notice.
grant, and as to the part of the country that had The present one is from Sir W. Elliot's
just been subjugated by him. facsimile collection, and is marked as having I cannot trace on the map the villages affected been found at Togarshod e' in the Kar- by the grant, or the district,-named in line 28; n a l District. It consists of three plates, about where, however, there is some doubt as to the 94" long by 4' broad. It is not stated whether exact reading, in which they were situated. the seal of the ring connecting the plates bears The grant was of certain dues, perquisites, or any emblem. The characters are the customary taxes, called Adityuńchhamaruinanna and MaruriWestern Chala kya characters derived from chhamarumanna. These are Dravidian terms, the Cave-alphabet, and nearly fully developed which I am not able to explain; but one cominto the Old Canarese alphabet. They are not ponent part of them is plainly the Sanskrit 80 neatly formed as those of the inscriptions unchha, 'gleaning.' last published by me, and they have a decided The record of the grant was made by Raslant from left to right. It is also to be noted mapunyavallabha, Vinayaditya's that the practice as to writing the Anusvára is Minister for peace and war. not uniform; sometimes it is written above In the epithets applied to Vikramaditya the line, as was the role in the earliest adapt- I., a clear allusion is made to a confederacy that ations of the Cave-alphabet, and sometimes, was formed against him by the three kings in ágrann(gra)-viéránta, 1. 1; vamsa, l. 13; of Ch8ļa, Paņdya, and Kerala, and to mana-fringa, 1. 17; and chanchala, 1. 31,- some interruption of the Western Chalukya on, or just a trifle below, the upper line of the rule that was effected by the leader of the writing.
Palla vas, the lord of Kanchi. I have had The inscription is dated in the saka year occasion to allade to this already, in my in612, and records a grant by Vinay aditya, troductory remarks to No. XXVIII. of this made by him in the tenth year of his reign, series. It wonld seem that the results of the conin celebration of some victory, while encamped quest of the ruler of Kañch i by Vikramaon the banks of the Pampå river or lake. ditya I were not very decisive or permanent. The locality is certainly the Hampe, Vijay & For we find Vina yaditya again campaignnagara, or Bijnagar of modern times, ing against the Pallav&s, as the leader of eferred to in Sanskrit books by the name of his father's army. And a short inscription at Pa mpakshetra,' on the south bank of Pattadakal in the Kalådgi District, rethe Tungabhadrâ, in the Ballå ri district. cently uncovered by me and thus brought There is a sacred pool at Hampe which is to light for the first time, states, almost in so still called 'Pampasarovara,' and Mr. many words, that the great temple theret, Sanderson, in his Canarese Dictionary, gives the temple of Virpakshadeva as it is
Hampe,' or Pampa,' as another name of now called, or of Loke svarade va as it was the Tungabhadrâ itself. Mr. Garrett, also, then called, was built by Loka mah Ad & vi, in his Classical Dictionary, gives 'Pampa' as the queen-consort of Vikramaditya II., the name of a river that rises at Rishya maka expressly to celebrate another victory over the in the Dekkan. And Rishyam a ka' is king of Kanchi by her husband, who was the the name by which a small hill on the north of great-grandson of Vikramaditya I.
According to the original, "six hundred and eleven + Plates muxviii. and axxix. of Mr. Burgess's Archeologia years of the Saka (era) having elapsed."
Ioal Report for 1873-4.
