Epigraphia Indica Vol 26

SR No.: 032580
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. XXVI.
4 risham pravarttise [l*] tad-varshābhya5 ntara Karttikä(ka)-misa bahasa dasa(ba)6 mlyurh Budhavárad-andu [8va*]sty-Amogha7 varsha prithuvi-vállabhath mahārājādbi8 rāja paramērva(sva)ra bhattarara räjyabhi9 vriddhiy-onduttararh sale Belvolarh mu10 nurumam Mahåstrivantan=ale Mu 11 Igundu(da) pannera qumar M&yirmman=āle Si12 rivurake Bagega perggāvundam-aguttire 13 Mallika(kā)rjtma-Bhattarara sishyar-Chandratja14 Bhattarargge Māvtntrol Bagege(nu) kotta 15 săvira(m) basliya tōntada sāmyama Mugina 16 Kādammantım Erenāgantar Kuppanum Mada17 num-okkaltanam geyye mattam-alliy=018 kkal=ellam=i(i)dan=aliye baldar-appodrella 19 Vāraṇāsiyumann'-elköți tapodhanamumam 20 kereyuman=ārämeyuma kavileyu21 man=alida păpam=akku yasya ya22 sya yadā bhūmi(mis-)tasya tasya sadā (tada) 23 [pha]lam mangalam
No. 5.-TWO EASTERN GANGA COPPER-PLATE GRANTS FROM SUDAVA.
BY R. K. GHOSHAL, M.A., CALCUTTA. The two sets of copper-plates, which form the subject of the present paper, were found in course of some excavations near the temple of Dharmalingēsvara at the village of Sudava! (or, Sudaba) situated in the eastern division of the Parläkimēdi Estate in the Ganjām District of the Madras Presidency. At the time of the discovery, the plates were deposited in a mud-pot. They were received for examination by the Assistent Archæological Superintendent for Epigraphy from the Agent and Diwan to the Raja Bahadur of Parläkimēdi. They have been moticed in the Annual Report on South Indian pography for the year 1920-21 (C. P. Nos. 1 and 2, page 93), and published for the first time by Pandit Satya Narayana Rajaguru of Parla. kimēdio. I now re-edit the two records from two sets of ink-impressions kindly supplied by Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, Government Epigraphist for India.
A.-Platos of Devondravarman, son of Guptrpava ; [Ganga) Year 184. These are three plates of copper, each measuring about 71 by 3)". Towards the proper right end of each plate there is a ring-hole, a little above " in diameter, through which the plates slide on to a copper-ring of sth diameter. The ends of the ring were soldered to a circular seal of 11" in diameter. It bears in relief on a counter-sunk surface the figure of a
1 Read. Väramärijuma.
In J. A. H. R. 8., Vol. II, p. 272 and 1. 1. Q., Vol. XI, p. 300, the ind-spots of these reourds are said to be Adays instead of Budave. These two names perhaps indicate one and she mame place.
• J. A. H. R. 8., Vol. II, pp. 271 ft.