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The Date of Bhūti Vikramakēsari

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Venkayya and I are of opinion that the Koḍumbāḷūr inscription of Bhūti Vikramakēsari must be dated in the tenth century a.d.; Father Heras proposes a date three centuries earlier. The arguments originally put forward by Venkayya, together with others drawn from Cōḷa inscriptions, have been summarized by me in my paper on the Koḍumbāḷūr inscription to which Fr. Heras has referred in his paper published in a recent issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (January, 1934, pp. 33 ff.). I propose here to examine the steps by which Fr. Heras reaches his conclusion.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

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page 475 note 1 JOR., vii, p. 4.

page 475 note 2 Ibid., p. 5.

page 476 note 1 Vol. iii, p. 249.

page 476 note 2 Vol. vii, p. 2.

page 477 note 1 Ante, 1934, p. 38, n. 3.

page 477 note 2 I have with me photographs of several Cōḷa temples with vimānas like those of the Koḍumbāḷūr temples; they are not “without precedent and without consequent, totally unique in South Indian architecture” (Heras).

page 477 note 3 Bombay Gazetteer, I, part ii, pp. 378–380.

page 477 note 4 Bom. Gaz., ibid., p. 380; the Kollipara plates of Arikesari edited by Sarma, Somasekhara in the Telugu journal Bhārati, vii, pp. 297317Google Scholar.

page 478 note 1 Bom. Gaz., I, ii, p. 362; Mad. Chr. Coll. Mag., 1927, p. 241. The verse in the Haidarābād plates is: mṛdita-Namsimha-yaśasā | vihita Mahendrapratāpa-vilayena | naya(e)na vijit-Ēśvareṇa '| prabhuṇā Śrī-Vallabhena jitaḥ.

page 479 note 1 Mad. Chris. Coll. Mag., 1929 (Jan.), p. 12.

page 479 note 2 E.H.I., p. 495.

page 479 note 3 This identification is improbable. Inscriptions, M.E.R. 359 and 360 of 1921, show that this name was applied to Tiruvadi in South Arcot in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Pariya-bhūmaṇimangala is now read “Pariyala Maṇimangala” (Hultzsch). Apparently Fr. Heras has not noticed this.

page 480 note 1 p. 41 of his article.