JUNE, 1873.]
THREE COPPER PLATES.
ants of Wenkat ruled 234 years in twelve dy nasties.
It is still believed of Wenkat that he
wanders in the jungle, and will some day again rule over the place. A Pathán succeeded these Ra yars. The Pathán was succeeded by his son Abdul Ali Khan, who ruled 25 years. The fort of Vellur was now besiegod by the Marathas headed by Tukojirao and Silojirao, who espied blood flowing out of stones a mile away from the fort. They began to worship it, and a god named Puliyar issued saying—“I have been residing here for long.” The Marāthas hereupon built a pago da, Sambagavinagar, over this stone, and began performing daily ceremonies. A village was also established here of the same name. This god told them in a dream that if they wished to con quer Vellur they should worship Surpayagam. Thereupon proceeding to the river they built a place called Barindăvanam for the purpose. As prayers began to be offered here, serpents com menced moving about in the fort of Vellur.
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The mother of Abdul Ali Khan seeing the palace filled with serpents, insisted on his surrendering the fort to the Marāthas. He did so accordingly, and removing three miles from Vellur there
founded a place termed Abdulwaram. The rule of these Marathas lasted 35 years, and their sons
ruled 20 years more. A Musalman named Zulfikr Khan took the fort by force and ruled 22 years. Zulfikr Khan was succeeded by a Maratha named
Sivajirao, who had besieged the fort for three years, and who remained on the guli for 30 years. The rule of his son lasted 22 years. After this Pa thán Daud Khan, coming from Dehli, made inroads on Vellur and Arkat, the administration of which he entrusted to his Vazir, and then returned to
Dehli. The Vazir and his descendants enjoyed the sovereignty for 45 years. Now commenced the rule of Wallajah for 34 years, and Arkat and Vellur remained in the hands of his descendants
until the British power appeared.—Such is the local legend.
'THREE coPPER PLATES FROM THE KRISHNA DISTRICT. The Acting Collector of the Krishna District
has forwarded three copper Sāsanams to the Madras Government, presented by the Zamindar of Nazid. The largest of the three was found about a year and a half ago in the Mokåsa vil lage of Ederu, near Agiripalli, where the Zamin dar lives, by a man ploughing; and the others were found in the time of the present Zamin dar's father. The writing on all is a mixture of Telugu and Sanskrit. The plates are in the Government Central Museum. The following translations
were
made in
the Collector's
office.
The first and most important, gives some particulars of the Eastern dynasty of Chālukyas descended from Kubja Vishnu Vardhana, or Vishnu Vardhana ‘the Little' or “Hunchback,” the younger son of Kirtti Varma, and brother
of Satyāśraya of the Kalyāni dynasty, who established for himself a new kingdom by the conquest of Vengi. His successors extended
their territories northwards from the Krishnā to the borders of Orissa, and ultimately fixed their capital at Rājamahendri, now Rājamandri. Their emblem was the Varāha länchhana or
few notes added from Sir W. Elliot's Glean
ings respecting this dynasty:— I:—SRI RAMULU.
A king called Kubja Vishnu Vardhanudu”, elder brother of Satya Sri Vallabhudu, of the Māna Vyasa gotra or tribe, who was a descendant of a
Rishi called Häriti, who got the kingdom by virtue of the boon of Kaušika, who was nourished by seven mothers named Bhamhi Maheswaryadi, and who was a votary of Shanmukhudu, # who possessed an emblem of the boar which he obtained
by the grace of the god; and which could subjugate all enemies, who had his body purified by an ablution at the end of an Aśvamedha and who was a
ornament of Chālukya race, reigned over the earth
for eighteen years. Vishnu Vardhanuduſ, son of
Indrarāja, his elder brother, reigned for nine years. His son, Manga Yuvarāja, for twenty-five years. His son Jayasimharāja, for thirteen years. His half-brother, king Kakatiš, for six months; Vish lu Wardhanudu, elder brother of Kakati, for
thirty-seven years, after defeating his brother; his son, Vijayāditya Bhattárkudu, for eighteen years; his son, Vishnu Vardhanudu, for thirty-six years; his son, Vijayāditya Bhupati," after fight ing 108 times within the space of 124 years with
Boar-signet. Some orthographical mistakes in the following versions have been rectified, and a
the
- He conquered Wengi. A. D. 605. See Sir W. Elliot in
Mad. Jour. Lit. Sc. vol. xx. p. 81.—ED.
| Vishnu Vardhana III-the fourth king of the Eastern line of Châlukyas.-Ep.
- Swāmi Mahāsema,’ accºrding to Sir W. Elliot.
† Bhagavān Nārayana.-Elliot.
force of Gangavattu, and after constructing 108 Siva temples, left this world for heaven after § Kokkili, in Sir W. Elliot's list.—Ep.
- Narendra Mriga Rāja, in Elliot's list.