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EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA [BHARATIYA PURABHILEKHAo PATRIKA] (BEING VOL. IX OF STUDIES IN INDIAN EPIGRAPHY) VOLUME NINE : 1982 PUBLISHED BY THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA DHARWAR CONTENTS Presidential Address ...K. G. KRISHNAfM, MYSORE... 1 Tenibhurni Plates of Vilcramaditya I ...H, S. THOSAR... 2 Mathura Stone Pedestal lascriplion of the time of Budhagupta, Year 161 ...KIRAN KUMAR THAPLYAL, LUCKNOW AND ARAVIND SRIVASTAVA, MATHURA... 3 A Duplicate Inscription of Chalukya Polekesi I at Badami ...K. V. RAMESH, MYSORE... 4 Glimpses of Chola Townships in Snlanka ...R. TIRUMALAI, NEW DELHI... 5 Susilpin Amriia ...G. BHATTACHARYA, BERLIN... 6 Some Aspects of Bhattiprolu Casket Inscriptions ...1. K. SARMA, MADRAS... 7 More on the Rajghat Shell Character Seal ..RICHARD SOLOMON, WASHINGTON .. S Self Immolation in Chola times and a New Inscription from Mallal .. R. TIRUMALAI, NEW DELHI... 9 A Note on Varika of the Inscriptions ...S. P. TEWARI, MYSORE .. 10 Some Important Inscriptions from Idar Taluk ...K. M. BHADRI, MYSORE... 11 Mallar Plates of Vyaghraraja ...AJAY MITRA SHASTRI, NAGPUR... 12 Notes on D. R. Bhandarkar’s Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings ...V. V. MIRASHI, NAGPUR... 13 Tenkasi Parakrama Pandya and his Successors ...N. SETHURAMAN, KUMBAKONAM... 14 Segmentation of unusually Long Texts of Indus Writings : A Mathematical Approach ...GIFT SIROMONEY, MADRAS AND ABDUL HUQ, MADRAS... »5 A Re-Examination of the Halmidi Inscription of Kadamba Kakustha ...M. J. SHARMA, MYSORE .. JOURNAL OF THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA [BHARATIYA PURABHILEKHA PATRIKA] (being VOL. IX OF STUDIES IN INDIAN EPIGRAPHY) VOLUME NINE : 1982 Editors Dr. Ajay Mitra Shastry N\GPUR Dr. S. Subramonia Iyer MYSORE Secretary and Executive Editor Dr. S. H. RittI DHARWAR PUBLISHED BY THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA DHARWAR Journil of the Epi^raphical Society of India [Bharatiya Purabhilekha Patr [Being Vol. IX of Studies in Indian Epigraphy] : Vol. IX, pp. x+llS+Vil Pla Editors : Dr. A. M. Shastry and Dr. S. Subramonia Iyer ; Secretary and ExecU Editor ; Dr. S. H. Ritti. Published by the Epigraphical Society of India. First Published—1983 COPY RIGHT © EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA The Publication of the Journal was financially supported by the Indian Council Historical Research. And the responsibility for the facts stated, opinions expressed or conclusi reached is entirely that of the authors of the articles and Indian Council of Histor Research accepts no responsibility for them. PRINTED IN INDIA AT VlDYASAGAR PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE 158, 11th Main, saraswathipuram, ]vtYSORE-570 009^ EDITORIAL Welcome to Goi^akhapur : Kadamba Inscriptions edited by Dr. B. R. We are happy to welcome our accre- Gopal. dited members to Gorakhpur for the We appeal to our members to please IXth Congress of the Epigraphical Society intimate to the society such events of of India and present them with the 9th academic interest and importance taking volume of our Journal. We are thankful place in any part of our country, so to -our members for their active coopera- that attention of our members may be tion which has enabled us to bring out drawn to them through this Journal. the issues of the Journal regularly. We Our Thanks are keenly aware that we have not been We take this opportunity to express able to publish all the papers pending our heartfelt thanks to our members who with us, inspite of our be.>t efforts in have encouraged us all through. The that direction. We even thought of membership is steadily increasing and the publishing a special issue including all number of participants in the annual the papers with us, but we could not congresses is also encouraging. We look succeed in doing so for paucity of time forward to their sustained interest and and, of course, funds. We hope to achr support for the growth of the Society. eve this goal by next year. We would like to place here on re- National Seminar on the Kadambas : cord our deep sense of gratitude to the An event of considerable interest to Indian Council of Historical Research, the members of the Society took place New Delhi, for their continued support, this month at Banavasi in the Sirsi taluk in the publication of this Journal re- af North Kanara district in Karnataka gularly on the occasion of the inaugural State. It was a National Seminar on the of every congress. We are beholden to Cadambas. A special feature of the Seminar the authorities of the Council for their vas its organisation in a rural set up appreciation and encouragement of our -ight within the precincts of the temple activities. ?f MadhukeSvara at Banavasi the erstwhile Our Condolences japital of tlie Kadambas. The key-note We deeply regret the sad and unex- iddress was delivered by Shri K. V. pected demise of two of our stalwarts in Soundara Rajan, Additional Director the field of epigraphy and Indology viz., Seneral of Archaeology, New Delhi. Shri R. S. Panchamukhi and Shri C. Dr. George M. Moraes, the pioneer in Sivarama Murti. he Kadamba studies was the guest of lonour and one of the moderators of the Vidyaratna Shri R. S. Panchamukhi leminar. The highlight of the Seminar was was a noted Sanskrit scholar, Epigraphist he publication of the volume of Early and Historian. He was the former Director of the Kannada Research Institute, Dhar- Our Appreciation wad. He was the President of the 4th We highly appreciate the kind co- Annual Congress of the Society, held at operation extended by our friends in Madras in 1978. Mysore, Dr. R V. Ramesh, Dr. S. Shri C. Sivarama Murti was a well Subramonia [yer and Shri Venkatesh in known Sanskrit scholar, Indologist and seeing this volume through the press in Art Historian. He was the former Director record time. We offer our sincere thanks of the National Museum, New Delhi. He to them. Our thanks are due to Shri has unfolded the glory of our Cultural S. K. Lakshminarayana, the Propriter of Heritage through his numerous scholarly the Vidyasagar Printing and Publishing publications. House, Mysore and his energetic assistant- We pay homage to these savants who Shri R. Venkatesh for accomplishing a have guided the society all these years. neat job in a limited time. Shrinivas Ritti Secretary and Executive Editor IN MEMORY OF VIDYARATHNA SHRI R. S. PANCHAMUKHI, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE KANNADA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DHARWAR AND PRESIDENT OF THE IV ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA, HELD AT MADRAS, IN 1978 AND PADMA SRI SHRI C. SIVARAMA MURTI, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL MUSEUM, NEW DELHI AND HONORARY FELLOW, EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS K. G. Krishnan It is with a deep sense of gratitude while they should have all the three. that I have accepted the decision of the Besides, the medium also creates difficulty Executive Committee of the Epigraphical in the matter of expression. This natu- Society to ask me to preside over this rally leads to the so-called ‘generation gap’. Congress. Perhaps in anticipation of more It is true that ancillary courses have been service in the field from me the Society started recently almost in all subjects. had called upon me to continue my work But the standards have been relaxed in even after my recent retirement from the such a way that excellence, which is very Epigraphical branch of the Archaeological much required, is given the go by. It is Survey of India, where I have spent more not very difiicult to remedy this situation, I than thirty years. take this opportunity if there is the will ! The Archaeological to project a review of the state of Epi- Survey of India which is controlling the grapliical research and to lead with a few Epigraphical branch should arrange to start suggestions regarding the lines along which a School of Epigraphy at the Office of we may proceed. the Chief Epigraphist at Mysore, which is Over the years during my career I undoubtedly the most suitable place. have been witnessing the effects of change Students to be trained in the field should that has come upon the Educational field be selected carefully, with excellence as subjected to frequent shifts hi the matter the only criterion. They shouM be supported of curriculum and the medium of instruc- financially. The course lasting for not less tion. While the students coming out of than one year should aim at ensuring the the institutions are generally a good group acquisition of the equipments indicated by themselves, the confusion caused by above along with the training in decipher- these frequent shifts has played havoc ment and intci'pretation of inscriptions. leaving most of them until for many Even if a few, say not more than half disciplines including that of Epigraphical a dozen, well-trained students are turned research. The minimum equipments needed out every year it will go a long way to in a researcher in this field are a sound produce good researchers interested in the knowledge of Sanskrit, of a classical subject. Wc appeal to the Archaeological (regional) language lilce the Prakrits, Tamil, Survey to initiate action in this regard. Telugu, Kannada and Malaya|am and of The next hurdle, bigger than all, is Indian History. It is found that if they the nonavailability of original texts, well- have the one they do not have the other edited and in quick succession. The main * Delivered the at VIII Annual Congress of the Epigraphical Society of India held at Bhopal on 13th, 14th and 15th February 1982. Presidential Address VI to clear difficulty in respect of this is not so much imperative that a separate wing inscriptions in the preparation of the texts as in the the large accumulated Tamil facility to printing of the material We are cons- is set up with corresponding collections trained to observe that the Archaeological print them simultaneously.