The following inscription was found on a rock locally called as Aḍukkaṅgal, up the hill near the village Tenmādi Maṅgalam, Polūr taluq. The inscription is in Sanskrit and inscribed in Grantha characters of 10th – 11th CE. The inscription is recorded in the ARE report 1933-34 with the number 50. Since the text is not…
Continue readingWe know that persons belonging to various places donated gold and other thing in temple which were at very distance from their native. Such donation is recorded is seen in the following inscription. The inscription is at the south wall of a Viṣṇu temple of Govindapātī village near Arakkonam. The record belongs to be…
Continue readingWe know that the two predominant empires of deccan during the middle period of 11th CE were Coḹas of Gaṅgai Koṇḍa Coḹapuram and Cālukyas of Kalyāṇī. Other dynasties were allying behind these two empires. The clashes between these two empires were started by Rājarāja I (985-1014 CE) who conquered Satyāśraya (997-1007 CE). After him,…
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Kāmikāgama while explaining the types of Pañjaras, explains the following pañjaras. तस्यादौ सिंहसंज्ञकम् सार्धपञ्जरमन्यत्स्यात्तृतीयं पञ्जरं मतम् १३२ निर्यूहपञ्जरं पश्चात्पञ्चमं लम्बनासिकम् सिंहश्रोत्रं तु षष्ठं स्यात्खण्डनिर्यूहकं ततः १३३ झषपञ्जरमन्यत्स्यात्तासां लक्षणमुच्यते The Pañjaras are classified as Siṃha Pañjara, Sārdha Pañjara, Pañjara, Nirvyūha Pañjara, Lambanāsika, Siṃha śrotra, Khaṇḍa nirvyūhaka and Jhaṣa Pañjara. The definition of these Pañjaras are…
Continue readingThe accession year of Sundara Coḹa is fixed as 957 CE based on the astronomical data available in his inscriptions. His records are available till his 17th Regnal year. Inscriptions from Tirumālpuram (S.I.I III, 117 & 118), Nemali (139 of 1942-43), Allūr (377 of 1903) and Tirumalavāḍi (2 of 1920) are bearing the 17th…
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