# SII 12.3: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar

Emmanuel Francis

Alternative title: Section I. No. 3. (C.P. No. 4 of 1915-1916). ŌṀGŌḌU
GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 4TH YEAR

Author of digital edition: Emmanuel Francis

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0003

Repository: SII original (south-indian-inscriptions)

File path: SII_B_clean/SII12/DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0003.xml

Language: Undetermined [Script (unspecified)]

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## Summary

This is a Sanskrit charter issued by Dharmamahārāja Siṁhavarman[1] of
the Bhāradvāja-gōtra, in his 4th year, in the month of Vaiśākha,
śukla-paksha, pañchamī, registering a gift of the village Ōṁgōḍu in
Karmmā-rāshṭra to the scholar Dēvaśarman, a resident of Kuṇḍūr, who
belonged to the Kāśyapa-gōtra and Chhandōga-sūtra. As the same village
was the object of grant in the previous charter of
Vijaya-Skandavarman,[2] it is possible that that donee, Gōlaśarman had
probably died without issue and thus necessitated its reconferment on
Dēvaśarman of the Kāśyapa-gōtra, who was probably a member of the
collateral branch of the original donee’s family.

The king is stated to have been the son of Yuva-Mahārāja Vishṇugōpa,
grandson of Mahārāja Skandavarman and great-grandson of Mahārāja
Vīravarman.

As the characters in which the record is incised are later, i.e., of
about the 7th century A.D., it has been surmised that it is a later copy
of an earlier document.

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## Commentary

Published in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XV, pp. 254 ff.

## Bibliography

Digital edition of SII 12.3 by Venkatasubba Ayyar & Krishnamacharlu 1943
converted to DHARMA conventions by Emmanuel Francis.

### Primary

[SII] Venkatasubba Ayyar, V. & C. R. Krishnamacharlu. 1943. South Indian
inscriptions. Volume XII: The Pallavas (with introductory notes in
English). South Indian Inscriptions 12. Madras: Government Press. Page
1, item 3.

[1] [I think there was only one Siṁhavarman—Ed.]

[2] No. 1 above.