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No. 12] KONEKI GRANT OF VISHNUVARDHANA II
77 incidentally noted that palli connoted. in Tamil literature, a place of worship, especially of the Buddhist or Jains sect.
The donees are all associated with the names of villages, of which they are stated. to be the Böyas. This expression, supposed to be a corruption of bhögika, also occurs in another Eastern Chalukya charter belonging to the reign of Indravarman. All the villages mentioned in the record with the exception of one can be located, as shown in the table below, in the Palnad and adjacent Taluks of the Guntur District. No. Villago mentioned in the platos Ite modern namo
Taluk 1. Kandēru . . . . Kantéru . . . . Guntur 2. Atukaru . . . . Andukaru . . . Sattenapalle 3. Mudokuru . . . Mutuktru . .
Palnad Kopdasimi. . . Kondopadu(?) . . .
Guntur Pati . . . . . Pitibanda . . . Sattenapallo Kumuniru, . . . Kondru(?) .
Do. Nadukara
Nadikade . . . . Palnad Kanparu
• Kauparra. . . Narasaraopet Irukutaru . . . Ikkepru . .
Do. 10. Veluohali . . . . Velicherla . . . . Bapatla 11. Ro [....] . . . Rötūru (1) .
. Do.
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1 Sri[r]=vijayatām [l] Mahārā(ja)(sya) (@yu]r=ärögyam=aisvaryyaž=ch=abhivarddhamt[am]
[*] Ishţa-sampado=ast=uttū(ütta)röttară[h*) kri[yks)=882 mpadya[ntām 1*] [Sri]mad-Asanapur-idhishthánu(na)-vāsi(sl) Srimad-bhagavat-svāri-Ma
(Ma)häsēna-pādānudhyātā3 nā[m] tribhuvana-mātri(tri)bhir-abhirakshitānām Ma(Mā)navya-sana götrāņām Härīti
putrāņām Kõ(Kau)si[ki]4 Vara-prasada-labdha-rājyānām(nam) chatur-udadhi-paryyanataḥ(ta)-prathita-yasasam(sām)
Ašvamēda(dha)5 yājinám(nāṁ) Chalukyānām=anvayam=unnamayituma(tum) Sakrarddana(Sankrandana - bhūta-Raparigasya
Second Plate, First Side 6 pranaptā (ptuh)* asahya-vi'--masya vipula-kirttē[h*) Kirttivamma(rmma)na[b*) prapautra
[b] saktitraya-vasikrikri -Rake14. R. Ep., 1921-22, App. A, No. 2, and Part II, p. 97. . From the original plates. • The soribe had written something below d and scored it later, • A length mark appears to have been wrongly Added to the rubeoript in the "The syllable na la redundant. • For pranaptul road naptub.