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has published a notice in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIII. p. 311, corresponds with the pedigree of the Cholas in the Kongu Chronicle-Vira- Chola of the Chronicle receiving in the grant the eponym of Parantaka I.
The full pedigree of the Chôļas, so far as it is given in the Kongu Chronicle, may be seen in the Manual of the Salem District, Vol. I. p. 39, arranged in tree-form from Dowson's abstract of the Chronicle in Jour. R. As. Soc., 0. S., Vol. VIII. p. Iff. and Taylor's fall translation of it in Madras Jour. Lit. and Sc. Vol. XIV. p. 4ff.
Stripped of collateral names, the two pedigrees stand as follows:
Kongu Chronicle
Vijayadi.
generations of the Cholas : and it is something to have obtained this amount of confirmed foothold in the midst of the great confusion in which the history of this dynasty is involved.
The Leiden Grant states that Rajaraja Chola conquered Satydsraya : and there is scarcely room for doubt that the reference is to one of the Western Chalukya kings, five at least of whom bore this eponym. If the name in the grant is to be regarded as a dynastic title, applicable to all the Western Chalukyas, the event referred to may well be the great victory obtained by the Cholas over Sômêsvara-Åhavamalla. This identification may possibly suggest the date of this grant, and at the same time afford a corrective for some of the difficulties which now surround the chronology of the Chöļas. But it would be unsafe to press it at present, any further than as a tentative suggestion.
Considering the small quantity of original materials hitherto published for the history of this dynasty, and the important part which these kings once played in the annals of the Peninsula, it would be a great service to those who are working on the very intricate problems of Chóla history if some one would publish the Sanskrit portion of the Leiden grant in the Indian Antiquary.
THOS. FOULKES. Coimbatore, 12th January 1885.
Aditya Varman.
Vira-Choļa.
Harimjaya or Arimjeya.
Parantaka.
Divi Raya, alias Arititu.
Arivari Deva, alias RAjarija.
Leiden Grant. Vijayalaya.
Aditya I.
Parantaka I.
Arimjaya.
Parantaka II.
Aditya II. Rajaraja.
alias Karikala. The early portion of the genealogy of the Leidon Grant agrees with the grant of Vfra-Chôļa, and with popular tradition, in ante Vol. IX. p. 47ff., and Salem Manual, Vol. II. p. 365ff., asserting the descent of the Cholas from the Solar Race through Ikshváku and Manu. The ViraChôļa grant traces their pedigree still higher than this, boldly carrying them up to the four-faced Brahmå himself.
The Leiden Grant and the Kongu Chronicle thus render mutual support to each other for six
THE LEIDEN COPPER-PLATE GRANTS
A CORRECTION. At p. 59 of Vol. XIII., tentative readings have been given of the legends on the scals of the two Chola grants in the University Museum at Leiden. An excellent cast of the seal of the larger grant, for which I am indebted to the kindness of Professor Kern, and a more careful examination of the photograph of the other than I was able to give to it in January 1884, enables me to give revised readings of the inscriptions.
That on the smaller and later grant runs,Śrf-Kulátturnga-Cholasya Rajaktsarivarmanah punyaris kahānisvara-sabhd.chuddratndyd(ya) ld sanam "Sri-Kulotturga-Chola Rajakesarivarman's auspi. cious edict to the crest-jewel of the assembly of earth-rulers."
The mistake in the first reading was mainly, if not entirely, due to the very peculiar form of the la in Chola, which being mistaken for nga, the syllables written below were taken in at the wrong place. These are-asya Rajakdearivarmanah, inserted below ringa-Cho and punya kahontevara. Dr. Kern has kindly pointed out this reading, and helped me with some of the letters in both inscriptions, about which I had doubts.
