Indian Epigraphy c11.t9.12

c11.t9.12

¹ See *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXXIV, p. 137; also G. H. Khare, *Sources of the Medieval History of the Dekkan*, Vol. I, p. 21 (cf. pp. 82-84) and Plate; cf. *JAS*, Vol. XXII, p. 133. The stanzas read as follows after correction of scribal errors: *Pāṇḍyadeś-ādhipān=matsyaṁ vṛṣabhaṁ Pallav-eśvarāt | Colād=vyāghraṁ gajaṁ Gaṅgāc=cāpa-yaṣṭiṁ ca Keralāt || Andhra-Cālukya-Mauryebhyo varāhaṁ Gurjar-eśvarāt | phalakaṁ pratipad-dhāryaṁ vṛṣabhaṁ Pallav-eśvarāt || Kosal-Āvanti-nāthābhyāṁ Siṁhalād=api nāmakam | Tārāṁ bhagavatīṁ khyātāṁ Dharmād=Vaṅgāla-bhūmipāt ||* The passage *vṛṣabhaṁ Pallav-eśvarāt* seems to have been repeated unnecessarily, although it may be that two different victories or the defeat of two Pallava kings are referred to. It is stated that Govinda III snatched away the *cihnas* (*cihnāni* occuring in the verse following the above and apparently meaning the emblems on the banners) of his ememies whom he had defeated: the fish from the Pāṇḍya king; the bull from the Pallava king; the tiger from the Coḷa king; the elephant from the [Western] Gaṅga king; the bow from the Kerala king; the boar from the Andhra (Eastern Cālukya), Cālukya and Maurya and the *phalaka* bearing *pratipad* and *hārya* from the Gūrjara king; the bull from the Pallava king; the *nāmaka* from the Kosala, Avanti, and Siṁhala kings; the goddess Tārā from Dharma, king of Vaṅgāla. The word *phalaka* means a board, *pratipad* a kettle-drum, *hārya* a serpent, and *nāmaka* the name of the kings in question. The Nalas had a peculiar banner called Tripatākā-dhvaja, the word *tripatākā* being explained as 'the hand with three fingers stretched out' or 'three pennons' (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXVIII, p. 13).