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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. V
Parakesarivarman (A.), Parántaka I. (B.), Rajaraja I. (C. to G.) and Rajendra-Chola I. (H.). The fact that all these inscriptions are found in the extreme south of the peninsula proves, what the Vattelutta inscriptions of the earlier Påndya kings suggest, that, about the 10th century of our era, the Vattelatta was current in the country of the Pandyas, but unknown in the native territory of their Chola conquerors.
The characters of the subjoined inscriptions agree more closely with those of the Cochin and Tirunelli plates! than with those of the plates of Jaţilavarman. Throughout F., G. and H. once in C. and twice in D.* occurs a variant of y, which is known from the Kottayam plates of Sthåņu-Ravi.5 In H. the double k is written as a group, as in many inscriptions in the Tamil alphabet. As in all other Vatteluttu inscriptions, Grantha letters are occasionally ased in the subjoined eight records. The following is a list of the Grantha words and letters :
Svasti fri at the beginning of each of the eight inscriptions.-A., 1. 11, sabhai.-0.,1.4, brahma; 1. 5, Mahadé; 2. 11, sabhai.-D., 11. 4 and 6, ja of Rajardja; 1. 7 f., brahma and m of brahmaddyam, and Sujintira.-E., 1. 8, brahmadé and mah[4*]sabhai.-F., 11. 3 and 4, Rajarája; l. 4 f., brahma, maka and chchaturuvé.-H., l. 1, éri and jendra of fri-Rajendra, ja of Irájarája; 1. 2, brahma; 11. 2, 8 and 9, sa of Vaiganasa ; 11. 5 and 6, fri.
A.-Inscription in the Sthåņunátha temple at Suchindram. This inscription records the gift of a lamp to the siva temple at Tiruchchivindiram, the modern Suchindram, and is dated in the 34th year of the reign of the ancient Chôļa king Parakêsarivarman.7 As we know from the large Leyden grant and from actual examples in the history of the later Chôļas that the titles Rajakesarin and Parakesarin were borne alternately by reigning kings, some of those inscriptions which are dated in the reign of Parakesarivarman-without any distinguishing epithet, as Madirai-konda in the case of Parantaka I.,-may perhaps be attributed to Vijayalaya, the grandfather of Parântaka I. and the earliest historical person that is referred to in two genealogical inscriptions of the Chola dynasty
TEXT.10 1 Svasti
śri [ll*] Kô=Pparake[sa]ri[vanma]2 kkult
y[á]ądu muppattu-nálu 3 vv-[a][dja Náñji-ná[t]ţu
Tiruch4 chivindirattu
[M]åd[6]varkku 5 n-nattu Talaikkuļattu
[A]raiyan-A. 6 ravin[dan]
sandi[r-ad]i[tta]-va[la]7 m niyadi alakku ne[y]
tontt(4) 8 mal erivadäga
tiru-no9 nda-vilakku
oprinukku
vaich [cha*] 10 [6]ã vô [m3]vả per ada a[m]bada [*] [i]vai 11 aimbadum parad(ai)-sabhaiyarkku [ll"]
Te
1 Abore, Vol. III. p. 66 . and Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 285 ff. Ihid. Vol. XXII. p. 57 ff.
* In the second ydîd of line 3. . In yam, 1. 8, and udaiya, L. 12.
Compare above, Vol. III. p. 66 f. • No. S1 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1896. * To the same reign belong Nos. 85 aud 148 of South Ind. Inser. Vol. I, aod No. 11 of Vol. III. • Ibid. Vol. I. p. 141, note 4: • Ibid. Vol. II. p. 379. Vijay Alnya is not mentioned in the Sholiuglur inscription; above, Vol. IV. p. 333. 10 From an inked estampage.
Bead rkw or rkku.
Read -tal.