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AUGUST, 1891.]
TIRUNELLI GRANT OF BHASKARA-RAVIVARMAN.
course, the modern village of Chellûr itself, the Chelloor' of the map, Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 94, in Lat. 16° 49', Long. 82° 3'. And Koleru appears to be the Kalairoo' of the map, two miles south-west of Chellûr; there is some room for doubt as to the exact vowel in the first syllable of the name that is given in the record.
30.
Kulottunga-Chodadêva II.
Date of Accession in A. D. 1127.
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He was the son and successor of No. 29, Vikrama-Chôda; and, as far as our information goes at present, he was the last of the dynasty.46 His name is given both as KulottungaChoḍadova (X. line 21), and as simply Chôdadeva (id. line 47). The seal of the grant of his time bears the motto of Bri-Tribhuvanankusa.
Of this reign we have one record: -
X. Another grant from Chellûr in the Gôdâvari District; edited by me, with a lithograph, ante, Vol. XIV. p. 55. - It opens with a verse in praise of the god Vishnu under the name of Mukunda; followed by another in laudation of the Somavamsa or Lunar Race (see page 274 above). It then gives the historical Eastern Chalukya genealogy, commencing with Kubja-Vishnuvardhana I., the brother of Satyasraya, 'the lord of favourites;' this passage gives the name of the family as Chalukya. The formal wording of a charter is not used in this record. It states how the Dandádhinátha Kata, otherwise called Kolani-Katamanayaka, an officer of Kulôttunga-Chôdadêva II., bestowed the Mandadorru agrahara, together with the village of Ponduvagrama, in the Savattili dosa, upon a number of Brahmans. The writer was Pallacharya (?). The record is dated in Saka-Samvat 1056 expired, on a tithi on which an equinox occurred while the moon was in the Ardra nakshatra; but the details do not work out correctly for that year, and they seem to indicate that the year really intended is SakaSamvat 1055 current, with a date corresponding to the 23rd March A. D. 1132 (see page 191 above).
TIRUNELLI COPPER-PLATE GRANT OF BHASKARA-RAVIVARMAN.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; BANGALORE.
For the loan of the original plates which contain the subjoined inscription, I am indebted to Mr. A. E. Castlestuart Stuart, M. C. S., who received them from their present owner, Colonel Wooldridge, of Manantoddy. After I had transcribed the text, Mr. Fleet kindly placed at my disposal a transcript, with a translation and short notes, which he received in 1885 from Dr. Gundert, and which had remained unpublished because Dr. Gundert considered it capable of improvement. As was to be expected, both the transcript and translation of Dr. Gundert proved of the greatest help. Wherever I have had to differ from him, it has been done only after careful consideration of his readings and renderings.
The plates belonged originally to the Tirunelli temple in the Vayanadu (Wynaad) taluka of the Malabar district. The Tirunelli temple, eight miles north of Manantavaḍi (Manantoddy), is dedicated to Perumal (Vishnu). It is placed on a branch of the Kâvêrî river at the foot of the Bramagiri plateau in Wynaad; the people of North Malabar used to resort to it for the performance of śráddha-ceremonies, until by the opening of the railway it became easier for them to visit Pêrûr on the Noyel river in Coimbatore for this purpose.' The temple is locally believed to have been dedicated by Brahmâ himself to the worship of Vishnu, whose image had appeared to him there on a nelli tree. Its walls are built of granite, and its roof is
46 With this concluding paper I give a genealogy of the family. Owing to the smaller space available, I have not been able to include quite all the details given by Dr. Hultzsch (South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I. p. 32); but I think that nothing of any leading importance has been excluded. 2 Ibid. p. 217.
1 Mr. R. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 245. Mr. W. Logan's Malabar, Vol. I. p. 190.
