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Tippaluru

Village in the former Kamalapuram taluk of Kadapa district, the Tirpaluru of an early Telugu stone inscription of the Telugu Chola Punyakumara. The letters of the inscription resemble those of the Pallava Mahendravarman I. Its date contains the earliest mention of the hora (planetary hour) then known in south Indian inscriptions.

The Telugu Chola stone

A red stone in Tippaluru, in what was the Kamalapuram taluk of the Kadapa (then Cuddapah) district, carries a deeply cut Telugu inscription.12 The inscription is of Erikalla-Mutturaju Punyakumara, who ruled Renandu from his capital at Chirpali (Chippili).12

It records a grant of fifty units of land at Tirpaluru to a Brahmana of Tarkkapulolu (Takkolu), and the editors took Tirpaluru to be the village itself.12

Its letters closely resemble the Vallam rock inscription of the Pallava Mahendravarman I.13 Its date names the weekday and the hora (planetary hour) of Brihaspati.13 This is the earliest mention of the hora then known in south Indian epigraphy (the study of inscriptions).13 See the Tippaluru inscription and Punyakumara.

Footnotes

  1. K. A. Nilakanta Sastri and M. Venkataramayya, “Telugu Chola Records from Anantapur and Cuddapah”, Epigraphia Indica XXVII (1956), p. 231 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Nilakanta Sastri and Venkataramayya, “Telugu Chola Records” (1956), p. 232 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Nilakanta Sastri and Venkataramayya, “Telugu Chola Records” (1956), p. 233 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

Photos

People

Punyakumara

c. 625 CE

Telugu Chola king of Renandu and Hiranyarashtra, the best-documented ruler of the family. He is known from two sets of Sanskrit copper plates (Malepadu, fifth year; Dommara-Nandyala, tenth year) and from Telugu stone records at Tippaluru, Ramesvaram and Veludurti. His titles imitate those of the Pallava Mahendravarman I. Editors have dated him about 625, about 740 and near the end of the 8th century.

Inscriptions

Tippaluru inscription of Punyakumara

c. 625 CE

An early Telugu stone record at Tippaluru in the Kamalapuram country. It was issued while Erikalla-Mutturaju Punyakumara ruled Renandu from his capital Chirpali. Its ornamental letters look like those of the Pallava Mahendravarman I's Vallam rock inscription. It names the weekday and the hora (planetary hour), the earliest mention of the hora then known in south Indian inscriptions.

References

Sources (1)
  1. B. Ch. Chhabra and N. Lakshminarayan Rao (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXVII (1947–48) (opens in a new tab), Archaeological Survey of India, 1956, pp. 231–234. K. A. Nilakanta Sastri and M. Venkataramayya (No. 42), inscription F. Paraphrased. [Public domain in India]

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