History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c28.9.5

v1.c28.9.5

It is impossible, for reasons mentioned above, that Kapilendra had allied himself with the Musalmans of the Bahmanī State and, in the second place, it is absolutely impossible to credit the dramatist Gaṅgādhara and believe that Mallikārjuna was successful in repelling the invasion, because the Jambai inscription in the South Arcot district states clearly that the repairs to the temple of Śiva had ceased for ten years before 1472-73.¹ Two inscriptions discovered at Muṇṇur in the South Arcot district prove that Kapileśvara had conquered the whole of the northern districts of the Tamil country as far as Tiruvarur in the Tanjore district and Trichinopoly. These two inscriptions are dated Śaka 1386=1464-65 A. D. The king mentioned is Kapileśvara or Kapilendra, but the form of the titles is queer : *Dakṣiṇa-Kapileśvara-Kumāra-Mahāpātra*. The inscription records the gift of some land for the *Ahamvīra-bhoga* and repairs to the temples of Perumal-Purushottama and Tirumala-ttanamudaiya Śiva in the village of Muṇṇur in the *Taluga* of the same name on Thursday of the bright half of Puṣyā of the Śaka year 1386=7th June 1464. A. D. This record proves that inspite of the queerness of the title Kapilendra was the master of the South Arcot district even towards the close of the reign of Mallikārjuna of Vijayanagara. A copy of the same inscription was found on the east and north walls of the deserted temple of Viṣṇu in the same village.