1844.] 



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" limits, become the property of this deity. Any person that injures thi* 

 " charity, will incur the guilt of having killed a cow on the banks of the 

 " Ganges. The Kaniyalars, [or Proprietors of the land], Singalangamar, 

 " Nyna Mudaliar, and Virava Nynar, have affixed their signatures to 

 ""this gift. Thus also Pyanurudayan Uttam Pirayan Annappen, the 

 4< village Kuril um, has signed. May prosperity continue !" 



Who Vikrama Dev was, does not appear ; but lie may- 

 have been a local officer, perhaps a feudatory or governor 

 under the Cholas; which dynasty shortly afterwards gave way 

 to that of the Rayeels of Bijanagar, The Salivahana year 

 1157, corresponding with A. D. 1235, however gives a tole- 

 rable approximation to the JEra of the Tamil inscriptions ; 

 which, as connected with the worship of Vishnu under the 

 form of the Boar incarnation, and the representation of the 

 same subject in one of the Caves, [plate 5 of Dr. Babington], 

 afford also some clue to the period at which the sculptures were 

 executed. A further guide to the seras of both the Tamil and 

 Nagari inscriptions may be obtained by combining and com- 

 paring some scattered notices obtained in other inscriptions. 



An inscription at Dharavaram in Rajahmundry shews that 

 a Vira Chola Deva was reigning inf S. S. 1001 or A. D. 1079. 

 His name too occurs in the best authenticated lists of the 

 Chola dynasty. I have no doubt that this is the prince above 

 alluded to. The grant would therefore be in 1038, or about 

 a century anterior to that of Pacajackarans Chuttram. 



That these Tamil inscriptions were posterior to the forma- 

 tion of the A dicJi amies wa ra Mantapam, the Rathas and the 

 temple cut out of a single mass of rock 5 (from which Dr. Bab- 

 ington copied the Kama Raja inscription,) is established by 

 the invocation of Adisandeswara^J the tutelary deity of 



t He also bore the titles of Kulotiunga which seems to have been adopted by several 

 Chola princes ; of the 7th Vishnu Verddhana ; and of Tribhuvana Malla in other inscrip- 

 tions from the same district. See MS. Catalogue of the McKenzie inscriptions. 



% Adisandeswara must be identical with " Atiranachundeswara" the Lingam set up 

 by Aliranachanda See Dr. Babington, Trans. Roy. As. Soc. V. II. p. 267. 



In Tamil the ^ pronounced " f" at beginning of a word, and d in the middle, is 

 identical with the Grantham and Nagari t ; and ^ is the only Tamil equivalent for the 

 Nagari Ch. 



