SII 1.144: original edition by Eugen Hultzsch – PART III. NOTES AND FRAGMENTS. No. 144-150. INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KAILĀSANĀTHA TEMPLE AT KĀÑCHĪPURAM. No. 144. FRAGMENTS OF GRANTHA INSCRIPTIONS.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv01p0i0144.

Summary: Besides the fragments noticed below, the shrine of Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara and its mahāmaṇḍapa contain a number of fragments in the Grantha character, which must have belonged to one or more inscriptions in Sanskrit verse and prose. One of the fragments, which is found on the floor of the mahāmaṇḍapa and which consists of 10 lines, mentions the Choḷas in the genitive case (coḷānām, line 3). A second fragment, which is found on the roof of the mahāmaṇḍapa, consists also of 10 lines and seems to be connected with the first. It mentions Choḷa-Triṇetra (lines 1 and 10) and three Eastern Chalukya kings, viz., [Vijay]āditya-Guṇakāṅga, Chāḷukya-Bhīma and Kollavigaṇḍa1 (line 3). The name of V[ai]dumba, a king who is known to have been conquered by the Choḷa king Parāntaka I.,2 occurs at the beginning of line 5. In lines 7 and 8, (the temple of the god) Bhīmeśvara is mentioned. The 8th line of both fragments seems to have contained a date in the Śaka era, of which the first number was 9 and the third was 3.3 A third fragment, which is found on the floor of the Rājasiṁhavarmeśvara Shrine and consists of 49 lines, mentions the Eastern Chalukya king Dānārṇava4 (line 17) and the Choḷa king Karikāla-Choḷa5 (line 38) and contains a long list of birudas of some king. Another list of birudas is contained in a fourth fragment, which is found on the roof of the mahāmaṇḍapa and consists of 30 lines. There is a fifth fragment in 9 lines on the roof of the mahāmaṇḍapa. Two small fragments, each of which contains 8 lines, are found near the window, which opens from the mahāmaṇḍapa into the front maṇḍapa.

Hand description:

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).

Version: (3cdd373), last modified (829da8c).

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Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 1.144 by Hultzsch 1890 converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

Primary

[SII] Hultzsch, Eugen Julius Theodor. 1890. South-Indian inscriptions, Tamil and Sanskrit, from stone and copper-plate edicts at Mamallapuram, Kanchipuram, in the North Arcot district, and other parts of the Madras Presidency, chiefly collected in 1886-87. Volume I. South Indian Inscriptions 1. Madras: Government Press. Page 139, item 144.

Notes

  1. 1. These three kings are Nos. 13, 14 and 15 of the table on page 32, above.
  2. 2. See page 112, note 3.
  3. 3. [śa]kanṛpanavaśatasaṁkhyā[pi] [8+] ṣu yāteṣu tribhirādhikeṣuṁ caturttha [10+]
  4. 4. This king is No. 24 of the table on page 32, above.
  5. 5. Karikāla is mentioned in line 24 of the large Leyden grant (Dr. Burgess’ Arch. Survey of S. India, Vol. IV, p. 206) as the builder of the “Grand Anicut,” which prevents the waters of the Kāverī being drawn off into the Koḷḷiḍam and thus secures the irrigation of the Tanjore District.