EPIGEAPHIA INDICA. [VOL, V.

1
same manner as lines 1-30 of the
L6kamaha43vl, in substantially the inscription edited and

translated in Ind. Ant, Vol. YIL p, 15 ft.

the Mahdrdja, the

He, the asylum of the -whole world, Vijayaditya (1, 21)
3
HUjAdhirdjaf
and ParcwiMattdraka, thus issues a command to all the cultivators, headed by
ta.*, who inhabit the Gudravara-vishaya:

Now Paftavardhmi (family), named Pammava, ofe, to

to the SOD of that (lady of the) tht

named Boddiya, Amuaaraja Bajamahendra4 gave the

Juw&jo, BaUKJladSva-VMabhata,
in the southern quarter of the
N6m field (and) the Pfaafa[pa]ri[y<i ?]
field
village o

The boundaries of these two fields are (1, 25): [of the first field], on the east, thi
OB the south, the field of Ratt[o]di ; on the west, the margin of th
lnda[nl]-cheuviL (tank) ;

field ofSu.[gu ?]mmft

and on the north, the^attnaso east of a field of Velpu ; [o/ the secon,
;

field],

and on
on
the
the east,

north,
the

the
pannasa of D&rnapiya j on
jianiuua
the south, a big road

.....
on the ^esfc, a river
Ganthas&la.

which are]
^
On
;

[Ha] also

.
[^ue] a house-field
on the south, . .
[the boundaries of
, en the west, .....: the east,

and c

the north, the court of audience.

obstruct this grant, and quote a benedictive
Lines 30-32 warn the people not to vere

ascribed to Yy to.

No.l7. OHEBBOIiU INSCRIPTION OF JAYA;

AFTER SAKA-SAMVAT 1135.

BY B. EUI/IZSOH, PH.D.

the four faces of the right one among two pillars in fw

This inscription engraved on is

at Chebrolu ia the Bapatla taluka of the Kietna distr

of the gopitra oi the tfag&vara toinple

I edit it from an excellent inked estamp&ge, prepared in 1897 hy Mr, H, Krishna Sastri, B
good preservation, The
letters are eo clear and well-formed tha
The is in
inscription very
can be read as easily as print,
The alphabet is Telugu, and the languages ate Sanskrit v<

(lines 1-110 and 149-158) and Telugu psose (11, 110-149).

The inscription opens with some iuYocations (versos 1-4).

Then follows the genealog;
the (Kfikatiya) king Ganapatiy who
traced hia descent from the Sun (v. 5), his son Menu (v

and the of the Eaghus (v. 7 f ,) The earliest historical ancestor, mentioned by ns
family
is Dtirjaya (v* 8), His eon BSta (v. 8) is identical ^with Betma, alias Tribhuvanamalla^ of
5
Aft&r him ruled Prola and hia son Budra
fik&mran&iha and Anmakonda inscriptions. (y
the uteriue brother of iihe last (v. 9), and Mah&d&va's son Ganapati (v, 10),
,

Minor differences wbich maybe menfcioned are: In line I we here have the spelling Hdrifa (inatt
^ ifl l iuo 13 Kollalngtwta (instead of Eotlafaiganda) iu line 12 we have only nkramd
^
and 15 TM-ddMpati and ?dl*ddhipa (iasmd of Tt
;

4'w^Jo-7t**aflidd^)>ftiidmlini
moreover, in line 6 the length of Jayjisimha's reign
is
(correctly) given as tliirbythrae (ir
and Tdlapfrrdja) j

of thirty) years, Verses 24 of our inscription occur, in addition to others, in the inscription mentioned a
vevse 2 ifl also ond in 'wflWM, !** ^ ol ^ P- $> ^ ao >
aiDld ^ rse 3 * i('* ] - 22' and in

p 92, 1 2S. ,

Zc Ammarlija.
,
*
>
The writer pcrbaps meant to say only the MtltdrdjAMw'djaS
*
4 '
the great Indra (op chief) of kings/ Ind, Ant. Vol. XXI, p, 197.
Lt.
No -
HEBBOLU INSCRIPTION OF

~
JATA.

was surnamod Chhalamattiganda 1 hv

SMS" >-*
IfinW)
b

Verses.13-87 refer to J^ya (v, 20) or Jfcyana (v. 13), a chief *hose genealogy is given in
' th G of Saka-Samvat 1153.3 He was the chief of thee
11 .

opbant-troQp* of kg Ganapati (v. 13) and received from Ha sovereign, in Saka-Samvat

1136, the city of Shanmukha (v. 20), or Tamraputl or
Tawanagari (y 27) The
(v. 19),
two Iw* names are Sanskrit equivalents of the
Teluga word Chembrolu (L 120), the modem
GMbrohi, Tbo same town is designated the '

city of ShanmukW on account of ita temple of

Kiimarasv&mm (v, 22 and 1. 114), which is novr called
a wall round Ch6br61u (v. 27) and to have
Mgesyara. %a is stated to have built
its repaired temples (vv. 21-26).
The Teluga
portion consists of a list of the villages and stares which were the
property of
the temples at Ch6br61u, and of the persona who had granted
lamps to these temples, This list
was evidently compiled from the records of the temples at the order of
Jaya, after he had
received Chebrfclu in gift from king Ganapati. The of the and
majority villages shares
apparently belonged to the temple of Kumarasvamln 110 and 114). The
(11,
temples of
OhodabTalmdavara and Vasudeva (1, 119 1) cannot now bs identiGed at OMbr&lu, The

temple o Anonta- Jina (1, 121) may have been located on the site of a Siva temple, in the
courtyard of which Mr. Krishna Sastri fonnd three beautifully carved Jaina figures. Two
further to-mples at Ch6br61u, Mulasthana 6 and Kaduvittesvara, are mentioned in verse 26.

tlio villages which are referred to in the T elugn portion I can identify only tbee,tf.
Kollftru (I lL4if.) m
the Repalle t&lnka; 6 Kolankalui?u (1. 116) now Kolakaluru,8 in } the
samo t^luka and "VaLlftru (L 117), 9 miles south-west of ChebrSlu in the Bapatla takka,
;

As stated before, king Ganapati granted Che'br&lu to Jaya in the month of Chaitraof
&aba-Samvat 1135, the cyclic year Srlmnklia (v, 20), ve, A,D, 1213-14, This is the earliest

authenticated date of G-anapati's reign. The inscription itself may have been incM somo
years later for Jaya must
;
have required several years for accomplishing the buildings which
are referred to in the inscription,

East Face*

2
8

[t*]

in elsewhere spelt Chala>martigaii<l&, It was borne by Eudilmbfc and Prdt&parudra (Jw?. Ant,
i This liruda
Vol. IV. p, 315).
Vol ' XXI, 199)> and by tbe chief Vanapafci (above,
p.
'
> See above, Vol. IK. p. 95. Above, Yol, III. No. 15.
$

of the
*
Compare verse 88 Ganap&Smaro inscription,

A
Ch6brflln insoription (No,
161 of 1897} of Gonka of Velanfydu, dated in Salta*8aihvat 998, the Jtala*
of three lamps to the temples of MHlasthaua-Mahad&v& and Kam4rasvlmin.
A atsaw* records iiha gift
Vol. I. p. 79.
e
geoMif, Sewell's Lists cf Antiquities
7 From WJ toW
eataranngfi, prepared by Mr,
H. Krishna Saafcri, B.A,
U4 EPIG-RAPHIi INDICA,

10

11 [>*]

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19 w> \\
[8*]

20 ; WTO? 1

21 fl [l]

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

SO

31 ft H [*]
u

32

33

34

35

36 [*]
^Vtfral
37

38 <fir

The aiwndito staocLa at the beginning of the next line.

No, 17,] CHEBEOLU INSCRIPTION OP JAYA, 145

39
40 fn^cm^ig^^cn^^fdcnT; II
[fi.*]

North Face.

41 TOT

42
43 frccft tf

46
46
47 ftlft^^HKHHdl I

48
49 ^
50 wftftwn; ftwrfir H [u*] n ar

51
52
53 ^f'rf^ fti

54
55
56 i;
57
58
*

59
60
61
62 TT^r ft^H^it H
[IB*]

63 ft^ tra^^rg^r ^r^ mrftr

64 "wPflfa
65
66 ?r

67 tKj ^ u pi"
68 ^ifildl^yft ??T?t: I

69 ^
 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. [Vot. V,

70 *T sf*m
^
I [U*]
71 : Titbit wra
72

73

74 Ararat [>*]
75

ra: w [it*] W

86

87 H*f*mr w m^^^^q. n [*']

89 ^^5t53j igi' f^^rni

90 [ w i^fft'i H^ HIM ?ici:

91 Hiciran^rf
Os
'^5 ircmnr *w&(
92
93
94
.95

96

97

98 t^t ^ f^nr arm ah

1 3
Bead 1%^T. The anusvdra stands at tie btiginuing of the next Ike*
1 * Read fffni
Bead isj*, . Bead
Chebrolu Pillar
Inscription of Jaya; after Saka-Samvat

W :

1 (V

;u c ^
)0
](%.
1{J

s ,
VA
ui r;
'o
-w
P
H*
^r )
/_/
1

s(
>V-
^J V?" ' "^

.
..> fr"
i >
; i

'0 K^?HV-f

v Rj. Jl)
v 1

:
1

(.:,

V' f:f}

f t
No. 17.] CEEBROLU INSCRIFHOK OF JAYA. 147

99
100
101
102
103 3353?

104 m3*r: a [n*3 ^wiw fsfara

105
106 fir; trfojcnJt; ii
[H*] <<r

107 srfacft sr^fr

108 f%?iift ^fi i

109
110 ffa ii [^*] i t^c ^^ i
i"? *ft<<^4\fi' fl-

111 rl^ti*(ro I

112
113

115 ft
116 f*jf% i
j^if% i fkw [i*]

117 ^ftPki^w rf%fir

118 13 u ^ ^r s
tff^g
m*im w
?f

^ t&: w i [i*]
119
120 ^f iSbjfWr
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130 firf

131

1
The awsvfoa stands at tho beginning of the nexfc line.
 EPiaRAPEIi INDICIA. C V '- V.

South

132

133 ftftr

134 ft [] 'f f^fsfrft

135

136

137
138
%
3
139 ft

uo
141 ft I D*l

I I
WSTftif I I

142

143 \ I I I

145
146
147
148
149
150
151

153
154
155
:
156
157
158

ABSTBACT OP COHTEKTS.

invocations, addressed to the boar-incwnatdon of

iv* (v. 2) to Gmapati
moon on the tead of j (T, 3) }

(v, 6). His

line.
fS is entered below the
Byllable - - - -
of the neit line.
 .
17-] CHEBROLU INSCRIPTION OF JAYi,

^
(v. ),
to, who wa folded
n the fanuly of toe J
Baghus
Sagara, Katostha, Dilipa,
Dasaratha,
was born Durjaya, and from
Mm Beta ; after him ruled
ra

Budra v, He was speeded

by his uterine brother
Prayhosasonwas Mtittfe
(v, His son was Ganapati
9), (v. 10), The Madra
Hag, the Panchala, the Vidto kin, the
HammirMhe Btt^ and the
king of Kill are stated to have been
waiting at his door (v 1?),
(V, 13.) 7enly prosperous IB the chief of the
J^yana, elephant-troop of that lord of the
earth (m. Ganapati), fta leader of all actors and Y^dic
"
scholare, (art) the crest-iewel of the
4
of
assembly poets,"
He was the favourite servant of
king ChMamattiganda
(ifo,
Ganapati) (v, 18).
"
tfow once,
(Y, 19.) returning from the conquest of the
kings of the Southern region the
heroic ChMamattiganda came on the
way to
Tamrapurl, (a with
city) fluttering banners'."
"
(V, 20.) In the Saka year eleven hundred and thirty-five, in the month Madhii e
'(,'

Chaitra), m the (qoitc) year Srlmukha, that

king gave (T&mrapnrf) to the
glorious genera]
JUya, saying! 'By my order rule thon from
to-day this city of Shammikha (Kum&ra-
Bvamin), which has been protected before by the arm of the maternal uncle of 2 " '

thy mother,
He (, Jaya) repaired and whitewashed all the
temples (prtoAZo) in that city and placed
golden pinnacles (ftaZafa) on them (v, 21). He covered with
gold the image of TarakMti
(KumtaHmin) 22) and supplied veBsels of gold, silver,
(v,
copper and ka B8 for the worship
of this god (v, 23), He gave another image of the same god and
images of his two consort^
which were made of baBe metal
Pa)
and were meant to be carried about in
proceeeion at
festivals (mobs), and built an enclosure, a of Sani
matfopo (Saturn), and a gopnra of three
storeys (v, 24),

(V.8fi.) "Then he made for this

(got) a mapjapa Arresting after the
sport of the
'

great hunt'
4
on the day of every Mw^BMrM On the in this
painting (mopjqtt), tho
the occasion,
gods, assembled for regard with a thrill the representation of fierce battles between

(Y. 26.) Ha set up again the

Ktduvittivara, which had both been destroyed by robbers."
liiiga
of the M&lastMna (temple) aud (the % called)

Ha 8urrounded Tamranagarl with a wall surmounted

by towers (v, 27),

#,
Tefayu, Portion,

(Line 110.) "The villages of this

god
5
from the east towards the south:-
(ore),

NfirikSdapumMndi, Mafiohedlu, K6vUamMndi, Komarajambiiridi, Venjedln.

TTmmetalapuudi, Suddhapimdl SfirapiindL Mulufcalapiindi} of this one half
'(village^
(ifl%) to the god &6
[Kumra]Bvamin, (ani) one half to god Anantesvara at Kollta,
?'
Gummap^di, Vadlambiindi, Gfidap0ndi t

"
(L, 116.) (Tk following m) the shares : 15 that of land in the middle of the
peacock?
pillars afc
Kolankaluru; 15 Ma at VaUGru ;
2 kfa at Kranteta j
1 IU at Kadungalu; 1
at

Tdlamb1indi;
12 Ih in Kattempfindi."

1
laterally, E^dra's hundred
'
;'
compare M , Ant. Vol XXI, p, 202, uote 48,
Or possibly, by the arms of thy mother and of thy maternal uncle,'
*
Pt'a.Yalli and D$vufa&; see the
colophon o No,1064iumyto^ topori o
PI 102 t
*
See above, Vol. Ill, p. 73, note 8, The temple of Kum&rasTtoim (no*
1
%&vara) \ t
This is an abbreviation of fck^dt
''
(or putti) ;
see Brown's
2%.%Zw& ])iotmwy> s, v,
$$,
This bird ia sacred to Kuotov&mia,
150
EPIGEAPHIA ESTDICA.
[VOL. V.

1and Chembr61ll to toe god Amnta-Jina, 5 ftfe.

!o
12 Ja;toih8
I ,,?
.
WBEWnaa^B of the MkHprt of the god, U Ha;
to
tba superintendent to of
edicts and the
omperor of poets, 2 Ma,
to the astrologer, 2 fcfo to the ;
doctor, 2 fcfo ; to the ;

chamberlain, 2 fc&a ; to the accountant, 2 tiha ;

among the three bnndred daneing.girls, to each
of all serve in the temple from the
thoseyho age of eight years, 2 Ha, ; to the door-keeper, 2 fan s
to the dancing-master, 2
;
to ore who heata the Ma
hig drum, 2 WLO, ; to one heats the email who
drum, 2 Ha j fcothe 0&efote, 2 Ua ;
to each of the singers, 2 Ma; to one who blows the -ffhite
2 to one who Hows the
conch, trumpet, 2 fefa 5 to one who plays tne gatuzu,
fcfca ;
2 fcTja ; to one \&o
beats the kettle-drum, 2 Ma to the jagrafavd fo 2 Ha to one who beats the
gong, 2 &a to one
; ; ft ;

who decorates (ifo* fanp'ie), 2 ft^a to the garland-maker, 2 feTia ; to the

;
sttigaragcudtu, 2 K%a to ;

the potter, 2 fcfea to the carpenter, 2 fcfo to theblacksmith, 2 Ma to tte masons, 4

; j j fcfca ;
to the
washerman, 2 &%<* ; to the torch-bearer, 2 bAa ;
to Alli-B&ya, 2 fcfca."
"
(L. 135.)These persons shall live in peace',
doing their respective work and enjoying-
(*&eir) shares. And the three hundred Brahma^as shall assign one part
(oj the produce) of their
land to the god and enjoy (the
-remaining) three parta themselves."
Lines 140- 149 record the names of 20 who had Verses 28-31 con-
persons granted Iniaps*
tain the usual admonitions bo future kings,

PQSTSCBIOT.
Another inscription of Jfiya and ol Ha sovereign G-anapati (BTo> 250 of 1897) is engraved
on three sides of a pillar which is now "built into the roof of tke LingSdbliavasi/ixnin temple at
Tsandavdlu, the capital of the chiefs of Velan&ndu,8 The second face of the pillar is turned
towards the roof and is hence invisible. The first face opens with the same passage aa the
Chebrolu inscription published above, and breaks off wita the words

of verse 10, The third face bears fire Sanskrit verses, the first of which is incomplete at the

beginning, and a passage in Telugu prose* I subjoin tbe text 3 c* the first sixteen lines of tha
third face,

7
8

10

i
See atove, Vol. Ill p, 296, note 9, and YoL IV. p, 128.

See above, Vol IV. p, 8af. and Addition aid Oorreotions, p. v. The inwription itself prfen to tvro oi

fchose cUefa j see below, p. 1B1, notes 5 and 0.

BJL 4 Bead
a
From an inkfid eatamp&ge, prepared by Mr, H. Siiahna Saitri,
No. 18.] SRAYANA-BELGOLA EPITAPH OE MARASIMHA
II, ]M

13
13 ?m3 gjra W *riuT snrai []
14
15
16 [ft]*rTfs3iTO^ ii t 'fars tfa-
17
It appears from the above passage that [king Ganapati] put the general Jaya (lints 1

!,)
in charge of a temple of Samkara (iva), which had been founded by krjg
B&jfindia-Ctoiika and had been named Pctn<3A6wft (1. 5) after [Panda], the TOIE^T
6 6
1

of Gonka, I. Jaya provided the god with a freeh pedestal (frfffea), as the old oae hud Ixst 11

on the temple, and granted veaeols for the worship,

placed golden pinnacles (ftumb&a)
Ganapati himBelf (1. 15) gave to the temple the village of GdvaVifcfi or, iu Hchgu, C
(1, 16).

No. 18.-SBAVAHA-BELGOLA EPITAPH OF MARAS1MHA II.

BY J. F. FLEET, Pn.D,, CJ.E.

This inscription, engraved on the four faces of the base of a pillar, TThich in knonc M ti

at the ontranoe to the area occupied by the temples on tn#

Kuge-Brahmad6va-kambha,
hill at Sravana-Belgola* wiis first brought to notice and edited by Mr. Riec, in fci
Ohandragiri
Inscriptions
at 8taww&*l9tf*9 No 38 -
(***$*<>, , Introl p. 18 ff.) I ^it my Terfiioiv of it

from to me by Dr. Hntaoh.

ink-impressiona supplied
The writing consists of one hundred and fourteen lines :
twentj-seven on the iwTith i

of the pillar, covering an area

about 1' llf broad by 2' 8" high ; twenty-eigbt on the wi*t ft
about 1' 9* broad by 2' 10" high tweaty-eight
on the north face, covering
covering an area ;

broad 2' 10" high; and thirty-one on the east face, covering an *
area about 1' 10 J* by
the Tvest faoe, and the whole of tha
broad by 3' l high, Lines 28 to 49 on
r/

about 1' 10 iV
a
are much damaged BO much so that no orauetad
)n the nortix fee, very 5

<

K
109, Oa
W,
arewge
J
112, ad
*-l^y /*^3KtS^L
;^ ^ ^
eize of the letters ^ about f

fldnn, tlongt of
to
I
ll
wt bj tht *
B omeW hat Bmalte and
^r^^^Keoutthe cord,te
hand, with the B6 of

the engtftTer, having not enaagh space

to^
the record
SJJl
: thifl
miate. eh^ter. i
. th,
"