Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s4.8

c8.s4.8

¹ This difficult phrase is rendered by Dr. Kielhorn (EI. vi. 17), “studying the requital (of good or evil) as their sacred text,” and he adds: “If this interpretation be correct, I cannot help thinking that the epithet alludes to the history of the Kadambas as told in the Tālgund inscription. So long as the Kadambas were private Brāhmans it was one of their chief duties to study the sacred texts; in other words, they were svādhyāya-charchāpārās. When they had become kings, it was an equally sacred duty for them to requite good and evil; to do so was what the study of the Veda had been to them before; and thus, having been svādhyāya-charchāpārās, they then were pratikṛita-svādhyāya-charchāpārās.” Another translation proposed in EI. viii. 148 is: “well versed in repeating the sacred writings one by one.”