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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[MAY, 1916
Virappa's relations with the Emperor. A word may be said about the relations between the Emperor and Virappa. At the time when Virappa came to the throne Tirumala was on the imperial throne, and adorned it for the next five years. In 1578 he gave place to his son and succeasor Sri Ranga I., and he, in turn, eight years later, to Vêikațapati I. (1586-1615). Virappa was thus the contemporary of three imperial suzerains. And it is certain that he paid, in theory at least, the allegiance due to them. Throughout the time when the emperors were waging desperate and futile wars with the Muhammadan powers of Golconda and Bijapur-wars which resulted in the loss of the northern provinces and in the transfer of the capital from Penukonda to Chandragiri--and throughout the time when Raja Udayar was skilfully expanding his estate into a kingdom by a judicious combination of opposition and conciliation towards the Srirangapatnam Viceroy, and when nearer at hand Achyutappa of Tanjore and Veikațappa (1570-80) and his son Varadappa Naik (1580-1620) of Gingi, were doing the game, Virappa was pursuing evidently the same policy of obedience and expediency. Inscription 187 of 1895 says distinctly that Virappa was the feudatory of Sriranga and inscription 13 of 1891, which records a grant by him in 1588, mentions him as a subordinate of Vebkata. A Krishnapuram 31 inscription of 1578 also recognizes him as a vassal of Sriranga. While a Kumbakonam grant32 of 1590 by Veikatapati endowed a number of villages in Tinnevelly to a Vaishnava shrine under the management of one Krishnadas. Two years later again33 Veikata made a grant to the Tirukkarangudi temple in the same district, and in 1601 a grant to the Bhashyakata shrine in the Madanagopala temple of Madura. (Inscn. 35 of 1908).
(To be continued.)
BOOK NOTICE. THE BHAIMTPARINAYA-NATAKAM, BY man of the Rathitara family. After studying the MANDIKAL RAMA SASTRI.
Veda, logio, grammar, and stylistio, he became
& specialist in the Advaita philosophy, and THE story of Nala and Damayanti is what ori.
has written several works, among them being tics of a certain ill-natured school would call" a the Arya-dharma-praka fika, a treatise on Indian well-worn theme." It would be more just to say religion. Some time ago he was appointed to that it is one which has a perennial hold on the the office of Sanskrit Pandit in the Maharainterest of India by reason of its merits, on the ja's College at Mysore, and still holds that post, one hand as a tale of broad human emotions and Having now attained to mature years, he has experiences, and on the other hand as a narrative
Bought for a theme fit “to purify the tongue" ;
and he has happily chosen the "holy tale" of singularly in harmony with the peculiar Hindu
Nala, which he has presented in the form of a imagination and view of moral law. It will be &
Sanskrit drana in ten acts, embracing the whole Bad day for India-a day which we hope will never
story from the beginning of Nala's passion for arise when a Hindu audience will fail to hear with
Damayanti down to their reunion after their seperospeotful interest tales such as those of Nola and
ration in the forest, and the recovery of his kingSåvitrf. And therefore we are glad to see & scholar
dom by Nala. He has handled the material, not whose previous literary career might have been
' in the ponderous and artificial style so sadly comexpected to predispose him towards theme more!
mon among modern pandita, but with an agreeable academio or at least more limited in its interest
lightness and simplicity of touch that make reading taking up this catholic story of love, joy, and sor
a sor a pleasure, and breathe a spirit of fresh life into row-and, wo may add at once, handling it so well.
the ancient forina of classical style. Mr. K. Srinivasa Pandit Mandikal Rama Bastri-as he informs as Râo contributes an English introduction to the book, in the preamble put into the mouth of the shtra. which is published under the auspices of His Highdhara, which is not remarkable for reserve-is the
ness the Maharaja of Mysore. son of Venkata-subbayya Sastri, a Srðtriya Brah
L. D. BARNETT. 31 Sowell's Antiquities, II, 76.
32 Ibid, I, 2.
33 Ibid, p. 315. 1 Pp. xxiv, 258, III, Mysoro, 1914. 8°.
