History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c20.2

c20.2

The Archaeological Survey of Mysore Annual Report, 1929, published in 1931, came to my hands after I had completed the above History. In the Report (p. 50 ff.) Dr. M. H. Krishna has published a new inscription of Mayūraśarman where Mayūraśarman's name clearly appears. This inscription may be compared with the Kadamba inscription of Maḷavalli in which I have read Mayūraśarman's name (§ 161). In both records he is ‘Mayūraśamman’. In the new record, which is engraved on the embankment of a lake at Chandravalli by the fort of Chitaldrug in three short lines, Dr. Krishna has read certain geographical names as ‘Pāriyātrika, Sakasthā[na], Sayindaka, Puṇāṭa, Mokari’. He has given a photograph of the rock which at places is very indistinct, and he has given a drawing (eye-copy) of the letters. From the photograph I have checked the reading which needs modification.