Indian Antiquary Vol 43

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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distinguished himself in the latter's service. This period agrees very well with that of a Parakrama Pai dya."15 One other theory of the same scholar may be noted in this connection, a theory which is, in my opinion, entirely untenable owing to its violation of accepted tradition. "In the section of stray Tamil verses called Tanip: daltirattu, a verse praising a king named Mânâbharaia, said to be the composition of the Tamil poet Pugalindi, is found. If this name refers to Arikêsari Parâkrama Pâidya Deva, the age of Pugalêndi will become the last quarter of the 16th century A. D. "But tradition," he acknowledges," places him at the beginning of the 12th 10 century A.D."
Alagan Perumal Kulas: khara till 1473.
On the death of Ariki sari Parakrama, his younger brother Alagan Perumâl Kula êkhara Deva, who had already shared with his brother the duties and dignities of royalty for more than three decades-for two inscriptions clearly prove that he began to reign in 1429,-succeeded him as the chief king. It is not improbable that he was the great Paidya, who signalised his reign by marching as far as Conjeevaram in 1469 and was evidently compelled to retreat by Sâluva Narasingha and his general Narasa Nâik. This, however, remains yet to be proved. A builder like his predecessor, he constructed an audience hall in the Visvanatha temple, and completed the tower which had been left unfinished by his brother. His reign seems to have ceased about 1473 A.D., when evidently his son Alagan Perumal Parakrama Deva assumed the sovereignty. Like the large majority of the kings of the age, he had a colleague in one Parakrama Kula êkhara17 whose period of co-operation, however, is completely overlapsed by the period of his superior.
Alagan Perum1 Parakrama 1473-1516.
Alagan Perumâl1s Parâkrama ruled till 1516, and was therefore the sovereign who must have been ruling at the time of Nârasa Naik's usurpation in 1501.
(To be Continued.)
NOTES AND QUERIES.
BEZOAR: MANUCCI'S" CORDIAL STONE."
IN his ftoria do Mogor Manucci has several references to the bezoar (Pers. padzahr) or 'poison stone," a hard concretion found in the stomach of a wild gont of the Persian province of Lår. He used it with beneficial effects when treating a female patient at Lahore c. 1673, and employed it, after he settled at Madras, in a special remedy which. bore his name. The fame of Manucci's patent medicine reached the ears of C. Biron, a French surgeon. Biron spent about six months in India in 1701-1702, chiefly at Pondicherry and Chandarnagar. On his return to Europe he published a short account of his travels with many curicus and
interesting notes on the minerals, plants, animals, etc., that had attracted his attention.2 He has a chapter on "bezor.rd" stones and a long account of the properties of the Goa or Gaspar Antonio "I have also," he adds, a cordial stone composed by Manouchi, a Doctor of Madras on the Coromandel coast. He sells it at a Crown an I do not know what it is made of this Doctor makes a great secret of it. "
stone.
ounce.
H. HOSTEN.
[" Manooch's stones" were also known to Lockyer in 1711. See Trade in India, p. 268. R. C. T.]
15 Ibid, 53.
16 There were other På dyan kings who had the same title. Gazetteer, 32
See Eg. S. Ind. Inscs, III, 56, Madu.
Keilhorn between November 1479 and
13 The history of this series of kings however is not so easily defined. There are so many Kula êkharas and Parakrama Paudyas mixed together in the inscriptions that the whole period is one of hopeless confusion. But I hope that the verison I have given here is fairly correct and complete. See Trav. Arch. Series and Ep Rep. 1909-10, p 100-102, etc.
3 p. 199.
1. e., Jatila Varman Kulasekhara, who came according to November 1480 and whose 20th year was 1499.
1 storia do Mogor, edited by W.Irvine, I. 54, II. 178, 431, III. 199. 2 Curiositez de la Nature et de l'Art, Paris, Jean Moreau, 1703.