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Translation of the 



[No. 3^2, 



tlioroughly versed in their religious wisdom {Qm^^nststih) veda- 

 Tfjdnatn. He was one who well explained the spiritual treatises of 

 that religious system to those kings who belonged to it. He lived to 

 a very advanced age. 



The son (of the before mentioned king) Tiru-Vicrama-deva 

 Chacravertiy being anointed and crowned, in Scanda-pura^ ruled the 

 kingdom. Then Sancara-devar {Siva) visibly appeared to him ; 

 and, in consequence, he quitted the Jaina religion, and was turned 

 to that of Siva ; and on setting out to the conquest of the 

 Dacshin* country, he made presents of lands and other things ; and 

 overcame the Chola, Pandya^ Kerala^ and Malayala countries, and 

 returned. Then the grant of land, by inscription, 

 SaUvJarmSacalOO, ^^^^ ^^^^^ Sidliavlha, or 53d year of 



the cycle in Vaiyasi month, in the bright half of 

 the moon's increase, on Monday, at the time when the moon's 



eclipset was half finished, Tiru-Vicrama-deva 



7. Vicrama-deva. /-r? • i t*- • 



Uhacraverti gave to the guru named JSarasinga- 



patta, of the Bharadivaja tribe, a charitable inscription (donation) 

 of {Panche-sata) five hundred Candacams of land. That land is 

 situated in Congu-desa near which that Sancara-dcva temple is si- 

 tuated, in Scanda-puram (at a distance from the temple.) This king 

 also ruled over the Carnataca-desa. 



5 Srimat- Congani-verma'dherma Mahathi-raya 



8. Congani-verma. - , ^_ - ^ , a> » ^ i 



ot the tanavayana tribe, of the Uartga race, be- 



* The statement that Vicrama-deva after quitting the Jaina religion, and following tha* 

 of Siva set out to the conquest of the Dacshin (South) country, and overcame the Chol'a 

 Pandya, Kerala and Malayala countries, requires grave attention as to whether this lan- 

 guage accord with the lower portion of the modem Mysore country. The point will 

 come into further discussion. 



t The date S. S. 100 or A. D. 177—8 has some appearance of being artificial. By a 

 rough process of my own, grounded a retrocession of the moon's nodes, reckoning back- 

 wards, I found that an eclipse did occur about that time : and running the calculation 

 forwards, from the eclipse which took place at the death of Julius Caesar, the like result 

 occurred. But I wish an astronomer would checK the date. Supposing it ever so ac- 

 curate, the date of an eclipse might have been taken from astronomical tables, and in- 

 serted, as that of an inscription. My objection to an inscription of so early a date i« a 

 practical one. No legible inscription has been found, in the South Peninsula, higher up 

 than about S. S. 1000. Inscriptions in the Pandya, and Chola, desas, presumed to be of 

 older date, are worn and defaced, by time, with only a few legible letters. 



X Esteemed of peculiar merit just then, even to the present time. 



? To the best of my knowledge and recollection, the title Srimat or Srimati, is not of 

 Southern usage. In Mahratta, and Canarese, inscriptions, it is of almost uniform occur- 

 rence. In the Tamil language inscriptions are I think uniformly commenced with 

 Svasta Sri. 



