r t, C { ! t'l Oj\f\Hu A i#Vi< *> t JOURNAL OF THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA [BHARATIYA PURABHILEKHA PATRIKA] (BEING VOL. XI OF STUDIES IN INDIAN EPIGRAPHY) VOLUME ELEVEN: 1984 PUBLISHED BY THE :EDPIGIL.&Pmc:BXi SOCIETY OF IKDIJBL CONTENTS Presidential Address ...K. V. SOUNDARA RAJA1M_ 1 Thalner Plates of Vakataka Harishena : A Re-Appraibal ...AJAY MITRA SHASTRI... 2 Two Jaina Inscriptions from Siyamangalam ...P. VENKATESAN^ 3 An Early reference to Madana-Mahotsava in the Gudnapur Inscription of Kadamba Ravivarman __S. P. TEWARI__ 4 Date of Nagachandra _MADHAV N. KATTI and N. N. SWAMY... 5 The Kumbhakonam Plates of Vijayaraghava, Saka 1578 ...VENKATESHA_ 6 An Inscription of Tukoji Rao (I) Holkar from Thalner, District Dhule ...N. M. GANAM.,, 7 Some Interesting Aspects of the Maratha Rule as gleaned from the Tamil Copper-Plates of the Thanjavur Marathas ...C. R. SRINIVASAN... 8 Five Pandya Kings of the 14th Century ...N. SETHURAMAN... Reclamation of and sand-cast Lands-A 'T9j)Land flood-damaged study in prices, rentals and wages in later Chola times (From A.D. 1070 to A..D. 1210)-based on Srirangam Inscriptions ...R. TIRUMALAI... 10 Chandavara Inscription of Kadamba Biradevarasa ...M. D. SAMPATH... 11 Hyderabad Prakrit Inscription of Govindaraja Vihara .P. V. PARABRAHMA SASTRI... 12 Some Important Inscriptions from Daulatabad ,...M. F. KHAN_ 13 Barsi Plates of Krishna I ...H. S. THOSARand A. A. HINGMIRE 14 The Date of the Masoda Plates of Pravarasena II ...AJAY MITRA SHASTRI and CHANDRASHEKHAR GUPTA... JOURNAL OF THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA [BHARATIYA PURABHILEKHA PATRIKA] (BEING VOL. XI OF STUDIES IN INDIAN EPIGRAPHY) VOLUME ELEVEN: 1984 Editor Dr. S. Subramonia Iyer MYSORE Secretary and Executive Editor Dr. S. H. Ritts DHARWAR PUBLISHED BY TJBLE EJIiailJHLIIIICJBLIrf SOCIETY OF INDIA Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India [Bharatiya Purabhilefcha Paldka in [Being Vol. XI of Studies Indian Epigraphy]: Vol. XI, pp. vi-fl40fvi Plates Editor : Dr. S. Subramonia Iyer ; Secretary and Executive Editor : Dr. S. H. Ritti Published by the Epigraphical Society of India. First Published 1985 COPY RIGHT EPIGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF INDJA The Publication of the Journal was financially supported by the Indian Council oJ Historical Research. And the responsibility for the facts stated, opinions expressed or conclusions reached is entirely that of the authors of the articles and Indian Council of Historical Research accepts no responsibility for them. PRINTED IN INDIA AT VtDYASAGAR PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE 158, 11TH MAIN, SARASWATHIPURAM, MYSORE-570 009 I V O R .I JIJL. From Dharwad to Dharwad again : We hope this eleventh Congrees, which marks the completion of a successful de- It was in January 1975 that our first cade, paves way for further growth with Annual Congress was held here in Dharwad, more vigour and strength, and with better under the auspices of the Department of plans and projects. Ancient Indian History & Epigraphy at the Karnatalc University. Attracting a The Journal : number of scholars who were happy large Our first three issues of the Journal at the formation of such a Society, the were issued under the title 'Studies in Congress provided a firm base for the Indian Epigraphy' because of certain exi- growth of the Society. D*. B.Ch. Chhabra, gencies, but with the 4th volume onwards the President of the first Congrass expressed it has assumed its usual form and name his pleasure by stating in his Presidential as Journal of the Epigraph ical Society of address that 'it is a dream come true'. India. This is the Xlth volume of the Dr. Sarojini Mahishi, the then Union Mini- Journal. We are happy to note that the ster of State for Law, Justice and Company Journal has been well received in the Affairs, who inaugurated the first Annual academic circles. The index to the first Congress, appreciated the motto of the ten volumes appended to this issue speaks Society and concluded her speech saying about the contribution of the Journal to Vriddhirastu. True to her hopes the Society Epigraphical Studies in the lecent years. has grown well. After completing ten years It has been able to bring to light not of fruitful existeno, we are back here again only many new inscriptions but also many at Dharwad to look back and review younger scholars in the field We humbly our growth believe that this is no mean achievement. these ten years, the Society During This has been possible because of the has traversed many parts of the country unstinted cooperation of our members from by organising Annual Congresses in diffe- all quarters of the country. rent States (a list of these congresses is It is our pleasent duty to place on re- printed elsewhere in the issue) and it has cord here our appreciation and gratitude now assumed an. all India Character and to the Indian Council of Historical Research has been able to build up a fraternity of for their helping hand in the form of epigraph ists, Triu to the words again, of grants for the publication of these issues. our founder Chairman, Dr. G S.Gai, the We are sure, we can bank upon them for Society has created interest in epigraphy the publication of the further issues as well. amongst younger generation of scholars. Presidential Addresses and PfaSastis : Fairly good number of younger scholars from different Universities and other aca- We are happy that we have been able a collection all demic institutions have been effectively to bring out this year of participating in our Annual Congresses. the Presidential addresses delivered during the past ten years, to mark the successful indeed, both these volumes are being re completion of a decade by the Society. leased at this llth Congress at Dharwad We hope that the thoughts, the ideas and Nothing is more phasing to the Societ; the suggestions expressed by the best men than to do this which furthers the caus> in the field regarding the eprgraphical studies of epigraphical studies. We congratulat in our country will serve as a reference the Editors of both these volumes fo work for all those who are interested in their valuable contributions to the Epigra these studies. The book contains the texts phical literature. of the pra&astis presented with Copper Our Congratulations : Plates conferred on the distinguished We are happy to bring to the notice scholars of our country, In addition to of our members that two of our accreditec making an interesting reading, these pra&a- members of the Executive Council havi siis place on permanent record the achieve- been elevated to the higher position ments of our stalwarts, which serve as a Dr. K. V. Ramesh as Director of Epigraph; becon light to the younger generations. and Shri M.N KattJ as Chief Epigraphist We take this opportunity to place on While congratulating them for their ele record our deep appreciation of and gra- vation, we hops that these new position titude to our friend Pandit V S.Subrama- will help them to serve the cause of epigra niyam who has bsen our official composer phy with greater zeal and vigour. of the prakastis for his and pleasing lively Our Thanks: compositions. As usual, the responsibility of bringin; New Books out this journal has been ably shouldere< In the last issue of our Journal we by our friends at Mysore Dr. S. Subramonii made a reference to a Seminar on the Iyer, Editor, and Dr. Venkatesh, Asst. Secre Kadambas held at Sirsi and also a Seminar tary and their associates. The printing ha been handled as and on the South and South East Asian Epigra- usual, ably, by Shri S.K and his phy held at Tokyo as a part of the 31st Lakshminarayana enthusiastic as International Congress of Human Sciences sistant Shri R. Venkatesh of the Vidya in Asia and North Africi. We are happy sagara Printing and Publishing House ihat we have an occasion to refer to them Mysore. We express our heart-felt thank to all here again about the outcome of both of them. these Seminars viz., a volume of Kadamba and the inscriptions collection of papers Shrinivas Ritti at the presented Tokyo Seminar. Happily Secretary & Executive Editor O ctf rt OJ T3 a P O CB ca C S eo o Pi CO C5 .S .<D c3 13 O -a T! M C o ,3 00 U O Q N- o CO 0} (0 ^o IE g -a -8 ! <^ a - g S3 /? U OH .? "EL UJ U p ffl <D c <L) 7 CO o S <D o5 q CO "I CO .<u < o CS SI * ' a .a on D) . > C o O O I i ce ^ CD3 C i C .^ C ?il CD a C8 i S 5 i 1 3 3 1 5 o> J C fH Q ea <D la ji <U U 11 p o es AND NOW XI Annual Congress JANUARY, 7-9, 1985 DHARWAD KARNATAK UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY AND EPIGRAPHY President : Dr. Noboru Karashima Professor of South Asian History, Faculty of letters, University of Tokyo, Japan. A Japanese Scholar of Indian studies with out- standing contributions like 'A Portrait of India,' 'Studies of Village Communities in Indian History,' 'A Concordance of the Names in the Chola Inscriptions,' 'South Indian History and Society,' 'Studies from inscriptions A. D. 850-1100', 'Indus Civilization' etc. Scholar to be Honoured : Prof. Ganesh Hari Khare Honorary Professor, Poona University, Itihasa Samsodhana Poona ; Chairman, Bharat erudite scholar in Marathi., Mandal, Poona ; Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Arabic ; has written large number of books and research and papers in English and Marathi on early medieval Indian History, particularly Maha- Indian rashtra ; President, History Congress, Records Commission.