SII 12.3: original edition by V. Venkatasubba Ayyar – Section I. No. 3. (C.P. No. 4 of 1915-1916). ŌṀGŌḌU GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 4TH YEAR.

Editor: Emmanuel Francis.

Identifier: DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0003.

Summary: This is a Sanskrit charter issued by Dharmamahārāja Siṁhavarman1 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.

Hand description:

Language: Undetermined.

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

Version: (e64779b), last modified (cdb689a).

Commentary

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

Bibliography

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

Primary

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

Notes

  1. 1. [I think there was only one Siṁhavarman—Ed.]
  2. 2. No. 1 above.