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Contents

Index

Introduction

Contents

Preface

PART I.

Personnel

Publication

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

PART II.

Introductory

Cholas of the Renadu country and Vaidumbas

Western Chalukyas

Eastern Gangas

Sailodbhavas

Early Cholas and Banas

Rashtrakutas

Western Chalukyas

Telugu Chodas

Kakatiyas

Velanandu Chiefs

Kolani Chiefs

Kona Chiefs

Cholas

Pandyas

Vijayanagara

Miscellaneous

General

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Vol. 4 - 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 13

Volume 14

Volume 15

Volume 16

Volume 17

Volume 18

Volume 19

Volume 20

Volume 22
Part 1

Volume 22
Part 2

Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 26

Volume 27

Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4

Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

Epigraphia Indica Volume 7

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

Epigraphia Indica Volume 30

Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

Archaeological Links

Archaeological-Survey of India

Pudukkottai

INTRODUCTORY

Rēṇukā-Parasurama tradition in Karṇatak and Konkaṇ
.group of other shrines of Iśvara, Hanumān, Gaṇēśa, etc.), situated on a hillock about 3 miles from the village. The goddess Yellamma, otherwise known as Rēṇukā, is represented by a stone figure about 2 ½ feet high seated on a rectan gular pedestal holding a pan-like object in her left hand and a dagger in her right. To the right of this temple is a small shrine of Paraśurāma whose fine image about 2 feet high is sculptured as holding a chaudiki (musical instrument) by both the hands, with the parasu and trisula? cut to the right and left sides of the deity respectively.

Antiquities at Banavasi.
About a furlong from these shrines is the temple of Jamadagni who is represented by a beautiful figure with a long beard, holding a rosary and a dam ru by the right and left hands respectively and seated in the padm sana pose. On the pedestal of this image is cut in relief the figure of Kāmadhēnu flanked on either side by flower-designs. The Jamadagni-Renuka-Parasurama cult is popular among a section of the people (mostly non-Brahmans) in the Koṅkan and the Karnatak regions, and some are known to dedicate themselves to a life of celibacy and of worship of the deities. Yellamma and Paraśurāma in imitation of whom they play upon the chaudiki. There is a famous temple of Paraśurāma in the Konkan to which pilgrims from all parts resort every year. Saundatti is also a place of such pilgrimage popular among the people of the Mahārāshṭra and the Karṇāṭaka countries including the Hyderabad and Mysore States. Banavasi in the North Kanara district which was also visited by the Telugu Assistant occupies only a small area of the extensive site of the ancient city of Vaijayantï, the capital of the Kadamba kings. The site of the city appears to have extended over several miles, the major portion of which is now covered with forest where ruins of ancient temples are found in good number. Excavations on the site may yield important finds, as the place was a centre of Buddhist and Jaina cultures in the pre-Christian and early Christian eras. The village is now noted for its temple of Madhukēśvara with a number of early inscriptions. The earliest of these is a Prākṛit record in Brāhmī characters of the 2nd century A.D. belonging to king Viṇhukaḍa-Chuṭukulānanda Sātakamṇi [Lūder’s List of Brāhmi Inscriptions¸ No. 1186).

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