Annual Reports on Indian Epigraphy

Index
Introduction
Contents
PART I.
Tours of the Superintendent 1937-1938
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Images
PART II.
Cavern with Brahni inscription at Malakonda
The Cholas of Renandu
The Kalinga Kings
The Eastern Chalukya
The Western Chalukyas
The Western Gangas
The Rashtrakutas
The Vaidumbas
The Pallavas
The Later Pallavas
The Cholas
The Pandyas
The Hoysalas
The Gandagopalas
The Yadavas
The Kakatiyas
The Reddi Chiefs
The Vijayanagar Kings
The Madura Nayakas
Miscellaneous
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

THE WESTERN GANGAS

Sasanakōṭa Plates of Mādhavavarman I.
18. A set of four copper-plates belonging to this dynasty was secured for examination during the years from the Collector of Anantapur (C. P. No. 4). It is said to have been discovered some years ago in the village Śāsanakōṭa in the Hindupur taluk of the district and was in the possession of Mr. K. Gopalakrishnamacharlu of the Collector’s office. The script in which the inscription is engraved is an early variety of the southern class of alphabets and is definitely anterior to that of the Penukoṇḍa plates of Mādhavavarman II and may be assigned to about the 4th-5th century A. D. It is dated in the very first year of Mahārāja Mādhavavarman. son of Koṅgaṇivarma-Dharmamahādhirāja of the kāṇvāyana-gōtra and the Jāhnavēya-kula, the progenitor of the dynasty who ‘established a kingdom by the strength of his own arms’, and registers the royals grant of the village Vēlputtoru in Paru[vi*]-vishaya as a brahmadēya to a Brahman named Dhara- Śarman of the Vatsa-gōtra and Taittirīya-charaṇa.

Since the publication of the Penukoṇḍa plates of Mādhavavarman II mentioned above, which was supposed to be the earliest document of the family, two earlier grants have come to light, viz., the Beṇḍigānahaḷḷi plates of Kṛishṇavarman (Mys. A. R. 1915, p. 40) and the Kuḍithiyam plates of the same king (Mys. A. R. 1932, p. 124). In both of these the king calls himself Kṛishṇavarma-Dharmamahādhirāja, son of Mādhavavarma-Mahādhirāja and grandson of Koṅguṇivarma-Dharmamahādhirāja of the Kāṇvāyana-gōtra and the Gaṅga-kula. Now on account of the earlier script of the present grant and the relationship of the kings mentioned above, this grant is the earliest genuine copper-plate document discovered so far not only king Mādhavavarman I but also for the Gaṅga family.* In determining the dates of the Penukōṇḍa plates of the present king’s grandson Mādhava II. Dr. Fleet has given A. D. 475 as a very good

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* Evidently Musalimaḍugu, Nandikotkur taluk, Kurnool dt.
* It has since been published by me in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV, p. 234.

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