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INTRODUCTION
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some one else on Kampana's side played the significant,
part. We have a number of inscriptions in the Tamil
country, belonging to Sāvaṛṇa Udaiyār, son of Kampa I,
Viceroy of Udaiyagiripaṭṭaṇam. These inscriptions
bear regnal years. One of these bearing the regnal year
1350 is possibly one of the earliest Vijayanagar inscrip-
tions discovered in the Tamil country. Sāvaṛṇa Udai-
yar succeeded to his father's Viceroyalty in Udaiyagiri
and assumed the title the Lord of the Eastern Ocean.
He seems to have been fired with the same enthusiasm
as roused Kampaņa to action and came to the South
as his inscriptions indicate, with the same objects as
Kampaņa's, viz., putting an end to the Muslim rule
and vanquishing the ruler of Tundira. It is not un-
likely that Kampana and he had a previous under-
standing by which they were to start on the campaigns
simultaneously from their respective headquarters
Kampana eastward and Sāvanṇa southward.¹0 Sāvan-
na's first inscriptions in the Tamil country is in Ponnēri
(north-eastern boundary of the Chingleput district)
dated 1350.¹⁰ª Vīra Sāvaṇṇa must have come into clash
with the Sambuvarāya ruler immediately after the date
of this inscription and an inscription of his at Sēndalai
(Tanjore) dated 1352-53 suggests that the struggle
with the Sambuvarāya must have been finished before
8. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29; 503 of 1906; 500 of 1906; 8 of 1899; 350
of 1927-28; 213 of 1912; 240 of 1912; 504 of 1906; 523 of 1919; 188 of
1903 (this list is almost exhaustive).
9. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29 from Tiruppalaivanam-Ponnēri Taluk
Chingleput Dt. dated 1272 Saka (1350) A.D.
10. A suggestion is made that Kampana came to Tiruvannamalai on
a pilgrimage and he constructed a long outer wall to the temple. (Cf.
Abidhānachintamani). But the meeting of Kampana and Vira Savaṇṇa
in the Tamil country appears to us to be something more than a mere
coincidence.
10a. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29.
INTRODUCTION
27
some one else on Kampana's side played the significant,
part. We have a number of inscriptions in the Tamil
country, belonging to Sāvaṛṇa Udaiyār, son of Kampa I,
Viceroy of Udaiyagiripaṭṭaṇam. These inscriptions
bear regnal years. One of these bearing the regnal year
1350 is possibly one of the earliest Vijayanagar inscrip-
tions discovered in the Tamil country. Sāvaṛṇa Udai-
yar succeeded to his father's Viceroyalty in Udaiyagiri
and assumed the title the Lord of the Eastern Ocean.
He seems to have been fired with the same enthusiasm
as roused Kampaņa to action and came to the South
as his inscriptions indicate, with the same objects as
Kampaņa's, viz., putting an end to the Muslim rule
and vanquishing the ruler of Tundira. It is not un-
likely that Kampana and he had a previous under-
standing by which they were to start on the campaigns
simultaneously from their respective headquarters
Kampana eastward and Sāvanṇa southward.¹0 Sāvan-
na's first inscriptions in the Tamil country is in Ponnēri
(north-eastern boundary of the Chingleput district)
dated 1350.¹⁰ª Vīra Sāvaṇṇa must have come into clash
with the Sambuvarāya ruler immediately after the date
of this inscription and an inscription of his at Sēndalai
(Tanjore) dated 1352-53 suggests that the struggle
with the Sambuvarāya must have been finished before
8. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29; 503 of 1906; 500 of 1906; 8 of 1899; 350
of 1927-28; 213 of 1912; 240 of 1912; 504 of 1906; 523 of 1919; 188 of
1903 (this list is almost exhaustive).
9. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29 from Tiruppalaivanam-Ponnēri Taluk
Chingleput Dt. dated 1272 Saka (1350) A.D.
10. A suggestion is made that Kampana came to Tiruvannamalai on
a pilgrimage and he constructed a long outer wall to the temple. (Cf.
Abidhānachintamani). But the meeting of Kampana and Vira Savaṇṇa
in the Tamil country appears to us to be something more than a mere
coincidence.
10a. A.R.E., 357 of 1928-29.