Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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Dantivarman. And at Ukkal in the North Arcot district there are inscriptions giving the Dame of a Kampavarman, or more fully Vijaya-Kampa-Vikramavarman, who may have belonged to the same family with Vijaya-Nfipatunga-Vikramavarman and his ancestors.
But, of more importance for present purposes, is the fact that, at Kil-Muttugûr in the North Arcot district, there is an inscription, dated in the eighteenth year of a king Vijay8Narasimhavarman, which shows, in the sculptures below it, the Western Ganga emblems of the elephant and the goose or swan,- the emblems being connected with Vijaya-Narasimhavarman himself by the fact that he was, evidently, the maker of the grant that is registered in the record. The name of this person is, characteristically, a Pallava name: but the emblems mark him as a Western Ganga; and he has been appropriately described by Dr. Hultzsch as "& Pallava by name, but Western Ganga by descent." Now, the alphabet of this record at Kil-Muttagur is more archaic than that of the Ambur inscriptions; and Vijaya-Narasimhavarman must, therefore, be placed at any rate before Vijaya-Nfipatunge-Vikramavarman. That he was connected with Vijaya-Nfipatunga-Vikramavarman, and also with Vijaya-Kampa-Vikrama varman, is plainly indicated by the use of the prefix ko, "king," in all three cases, and of the word vijaya, in the Tamil form visaiya, as part of the proper names: and it appears that one of the grants of Vijaya-Nfipatunga-Vikramavarman actually places a Narasimha in the genealogy, before Dantivarman. Whether Kampavarman came before Narasimhavarman, or after bim, is not yet known. But the retention of the Western Ganga emblems by Narasimhavarmaa refers him to a period when the members of this branch of the Gangs family had not fully turned themselves into Pallaras. And it seems probable that he was the one who secured the succession to the Pallapa dominions. If so, as he must have done it on the death of PallavamallaNandivarman, son of Hiranyavarman, we may place his initial date somewhere about A.D. 760 to 770. He was eventually followed by Dantivarman, Nandivarman or VijayaNandi-Vikramavarman, and Vijaya-Nripatunga-Vikramavarman. And one or other of them, or perhapa Vijaya-Kampa-Vikramsvarman, discarded the emblems of the Western Gangas and adopted those of the Pallavas, - thus converting himself into a Pallava, just as the Eastern Chalukyas became Cholas in the time of Kulôttunga-Choladdva 1. The exact connection of Vijaya-Narasimhavarman with Sivamara I. remains to be discovered.
W revert now to the descendants of Sripurusha-Muttarase. The spurious Sadi grant gives the name of Sivamára II., as his eldest son ; and the spurious grants from Suradhënupura and Mapne purport to be records of this person himself. Now, one of the
1 Bee above Vol. IV. p. 182, noto 4.-Two of these inscriptions are at Ukkul, in the Arcot taluks and one of them la dated in his tenth year, and the other in bis ifteenth year these two records mention him as Kampavarman. An inscription at Dafi, near Mamandar in the same talaks, gives his name in the fuller form of Vijaya-Kampe-Vikramavarman. I am able to quote these details through Dr. Haltasch's kindness in wonding me
proofs of some page of his South Ind. Insere. Vol. III. • Ibid. p. 177; see slao p. 182. .
. See Mr. Bowell's List of Antiquities, Madras, Vol. II, p. 30; this is the grant in the office of the Collector of North Arcot, not the bahar granted quoted in the text above. • See pege 158 above.
See Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 377. • This grant (for wbich, seo page 167 below, Dote 2) would give him the second name of Saigotta; so, also, the Bumcha inscription of A.D. 1077-78 (see page 158 sbove, note 4). He is evidently the Saigotta-Sivamara, an alleged feudatory of king Amoghavarsbs, for wbom a record of about the eleventh century A.D., at Kalbhavi in the Belgaum District (Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 809), parporta to furnish a date in A.D. 808, 814, or 889 (the details of the date are so incorrect that the exact year which is intended on not be determined).
These two grants are mentioned by Mr. Rice in bis Ep. Cars, Vol. III. Introd. p. 3. The Suradbånupura trant is not yet available in detail. But I am able to quote the Mappe grant from photographs which Mr. Rice was kind enough to send me.-It appears that the Sundbêngpars grant cites the Sarvajit sarnatadina, Śak-Sarbrat 789 (expired), - A.D. 807-808, w the third year of sivamara IL, and thus would place the commencement of his rule in A.D. 806-806.-The Manpe grant, however, taking the genealogy M far as