Epigraphia Indica Vol 03

SR No.: 032557
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 472
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. III.
No. 16.- YENAMADALA INSCRIPTION OF GANAPAMBA.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH.D. An abridged English translation of this inscription, based on a copy from the collection of Colonel Colin Mackenzie, was published by Mr. Gordon Mackenzie in the Manual of the Kistna District, p. 13 f. The original is engraved on four faces of a pillar in the village of Yenamadala in the Guntar tAluka of the Kistna district. The pillar is now lying in the temple of Venugopala. Before ita removal to this place of comparative safety, the villagers were using it for grinding chunnam on it. This objectionable practice has led to the destruction of a considerable portion of the inscription. The first and second faces, which bear an inscription in the Teluga alphabet and the Sanskrit language, are somewhat worn, but still legible. Of the third face, however, which, as the published version of Colonel Mackenzie's copy shows, formerly oontained the first half of a long passage in the Telugu alphabet and language, only the first seven lines are now visible, while the remaining lines are worn smooth, with the exception of one, two, or three letters at the beginning, and at the end, of each line. The fourth face, which contains the end of the Telugu portion, and three other Telugu inscriptions of slightly later date, is again in tolerably good preservation. The last of the Telaga inscriptions on the fourth face is continued at the bottom of the first face, which had been left blank by the engraver of the first inscription. Finally, a short Telugu inscription, which looks quite recent, but has been mistaken for a portion of the first inscription, is engraved at the bottom of the second face.
Besides the two later additions on their lowermost portions, the first and second faces of the pillar bear, as stated above, an inscription in the Telugu alphabet and the Sanskrit language. It consists of twenty-five verses, the first two of which are addressed to Gaņāsa and the Boar-incarnation of Vishnu. Verse 3 refers to the race of the Kikatilas, or, as they are more generally called, KAkatiyas. As in the Ganapeśvaram inscription (ante, p. 82), the list of kings opens with Prola (v. 4). His son Madhavs (v. 5) must be identical with Mahadeva, who was the son of Prôla and younger brother of Radra according to the Ekamranátha and Ganapêgvaram inscriptions. This Madhave is stated to have lost his life in battle (v. 5). His son was Ganapati (v. 6) or Ganapa (vv. 7, 15, 23), whose daughter was Ganapamba (vv. 8, 21) or Ganapambiks (vv. 9, 15, 25).
Verses 10 to 14 describe a dynasty of local chiefs, who ruled over the district of Konnatavadi. (v. 11) and resided at Sri-Dhanyánkapura" (vv. 10, 17, 21), s.e. Amaravati in the Sattenapalle täluka of the Kistna district. These are: Këta (v. 10 f.), who gave away seventy agrahdras on the southern bank of the Verņ87 (v. 12), his son Rudra (v. 13), and the latter's son Beta (v. 14). To this Beta, the princess Ganapåmbikê was given in marriage by her father Ganapa (v. 15).
1 See Mr. Sewell's List of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 819 f.
ibid. p. 77. There is another village of the same name in the Narasarávupóta taloka; ibid. p. 74 * In the abridged English translation, it is represented by the two last lines on p. 14 of the Kitna Mawwal.
• According to the Teluga portion of the inscription (30 p. 96 below), this district appears to have consisted of six thousand villages on the southern bank of the Krishna river.
This name is synonymous with Dhamñakata in two Prakrit inscriptions (Zeitschr. D. M. G. Vol. XXXVII. p. 648), and with Dhanyughata or Dhanyaghataka in a Sanskrit inscription (South-Indian Incription, Vol. I. p. 85), all from Amaravati.
In his Lista of Antiquitias, VOL. I. p. 64, Mr. Sewell notices three inscriptions of this chief on a pillar at the Amard van temple in Amaravati. One of these is stated to contain the date Saku-Samvat 1104
7 Verna and vânt (ante, 82, note 2) are abbrevisted forms of Krishnaverna (South-Indian Inscriptiom. Vol. I. p. 28) or Krishnavent (ante, p. 91, verse 21 ), the Krishna (Kistna) river,