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FIVE BANA INSCRIPTIONS AT GUDIMALLAM.
BY T. A. GOPINATHA RAO, M. A., TRIVANDRUM.
The temple of Paraśurāmēsvara, from which the five inscriptions edited below bave been copied, is situated in the village of Gudimallam, six miles north of Renigunta, which is a village, with a railway station, in the Chandragiri tāluka of the North Arcot District. One of the inscriptions belonging to this temple informs us that it was completely rebuilt in the ninth year of the reign of Vikramachõļadēva (A.D. 1126). The present structure is not after the common model of the period to which it belongs: the vimana has the so-called gajaprishthakriti shape : but a close study of the plan and sections, given in the accompanying plate, warrant the conclusion that the architect had distinctly in view the shape of the linga ;' and hence the rimana might better be styled a lingākriti-vimana. Again, the linga of this temple is a most remarkable one, in that it is an exact copy of the phallus, and has the various portions shaped very accurately. It has been made out of a hard igneous rock of a dark brown colour, samples of which are found near the Tirumala hills. The linga and the image of Siva carved on its front side are very highly polished. Unlike the I ater representations, the image of Siva has been made with only a single pair of hands, the right Carrying a ram by its hind legs and the left holding a water-vegsel. A battle-axe rests on its left shoulder (from which perhaps he derives bis name of Parasurāmēsvara), and there is the usual matted and twisted hair (jaļa) on his head. He is standing on the shoulders of a Rakshasa whom the sculptor has represented with a pair of animal ears. The linga is the only one of its kind in
1 No. 212 of the Government Epigraphist's Colleotion for the year 1903.
? The gajaprishthakriti-vimāna is found only in Saiva temples; e g., the Dharmē van temple at Manimau galam, the Saiva temples at Somangalam, Pennagaram, Bbāradvājābrama near Aroot, Tirappalivanam, Kondür (Dear Madras), Vada Tiramullaivāyil, etc., eto. I have not come noross any Vaishnava temple having this kind of timana.
