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same two grants, the description of the next king opens. This close agreement and the archaic alphabet of the fragment leave no doubt, that it belongs to one of those ancient Pallava kings, whose grants are dated from Palakkada, Dasanapura," and Kanchipura. This view is further confirmed by the first line of the plate, according to which the king's order was dated from the prosperous and victorious residence of Dasanapura.'
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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2. रमब्रह्मण्यस्य
I. 1. स्वस्ति जितम्भगवता [ ॥ *] श्रीमद्दिजयदमनपुराधिष्टानात्प-' en cenforifoia quife3. धेर्व्विधिविहितसव्र्व्वमर्थ्यादस्य fefafernenfrater 4. मी महाराजस्य श्रीवीरको चंवचः प्रपोच []
TRANSLATION.
Hail! Victorious is Bhagavat! From the prosperous and victorious residence of Dasanapura. The great-grandson of the maharaja Sri-Vira-Korchavarman, who was very pious, who acquired by the power of his arm a mighty treasure of such penance as becomes the warrior-caste, who ordained all laws according to the sacred scriptures, who was constant in virtue, and whose mind was immeasurable. . .
No. XLVI.-KRISHNAPURA INSCRIPTION OF KRISHNARAYA,
DATED SAKA 1451.
BY E. HULTZSCH, PH. D.
The original of this inscription is engraved on the south and north faces of a rough stone tablet, which is set up in front of the Ugranarasimhas vámin temple' at Krishnapura, a deserted village at the western extremity of the ruins of Vijayanagara. A very inaccurate abstract of the inscription was published in 1836 by Mr. Ravenshaw. The subjoined transcript is prepared from an estampage made in 1889. The inscription is in the old Kanarese character. About two thirds are in Kanarese prose, and the remainder (lines 33 to 46) is in Sanskrit verse.
The Kanarese portion (lines 1 to 33) records, that Vira-Krishnaraya-maharaya gave two villages to the image of Lakshmi-Narasimhadeva, which he had caused to be consecrated in the village of Krishnapura by Arya Krishna Bhaṭṭa, who appears to have been his domestic priest. The date of the grant is :-"Friday, the 15th of the
Ibid. vol. V. p. 58. Dr. Purnell's identification of Palakkada with the modern Pulicat (South-Indian Paleography. second edition, p. 38) is untenable, as the latter name is an Anglo-Indian corruption of Palaverkadu, the old forest of vel trees.'
Ibid. vol. V, p. 154. Ibid. vol. VIII, p. 169.
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1 No. 26 on the Madras Survey Map of Hampe. The colossal image of Narasimha in this temple has baffled the attempts of the Musalman iconoclasts and is perhaps the most remarkable of the relics of Vijayanagara. Asiatic Researches, vol. XX, p. 29.
