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But I believe it to be a spurious grant; partly because of the type of the characters, and partly because the date does not work out correctly. As regards the characters, lithographs of the Old-Kanarese alphabet of Western India of this period have not as yet been published ; and, accordingly, I cannot justify my objections in detail. But the characters present a decidedly later general appearance than those of the Âtakûr inscription, and of any records that I am acquainted with, belonging to within fifty years or so of the asserted date of this record. And they also seem to me to be distinctly more modern than those of the Koramelli grant of Rajaraja I., which was issued in or after A.D. 1022 (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 48, and lithograph) They strike my eye as being perceptibly not early enough for the date to which they purport to belong. And, this being so, the fact that the details of the date do not work out correctly is decidedly a strong point against the authenticity of the record.
TEXT.1
First Plate. 1 Srir-vvibháti suvi(dhl)r-yyasya niravady[A] nirat[y]aya tasmai
namô=rhaté 2 lôka-hita-dharmm-ôpadékịnê || Jita[n] bhagavatâ. (gata*]-ghana
ga[ga]n-abhê. 3 na. Padmanabhêna [ll] Śrîmaj-Jahnavêya 3-kul-A[ma]?a-vyôm-ava
bhâsana-bhaskarsh | 4 sva-khadg-sika-prahára-khandita-maha-siļastambha-labdha-bala-paråkram ô
daran-e5 ri-gana-vidáran-Ôpalabdha-bra(vra)ņa-vibhushana-bhúshitaḥ K[A]nvå6 yana-sagôtra[ho] srimat-Komguņivarmma-dharmmamaharajadhirajaḥ [11*] 7 Tat-putrah 10 pitur anvågata-gana-yuktô 16 vidyd-vinays-vihita-vrittih 8 samyak-prajå-pålans-mâtr-&vi(dhi)gata-rajya-prayojano vidvat-kavi-kâm9 fichana-nikashôpala-bhůto niti-âstrasya vaktpi-prayôktri-kuša!d dattaka
Bu.
10 tra-vřittel(h)-prañêtâ sriman-maha Srâjâdhirajah 1(1) Om Tat
putra[ho] pitfi-paita11 maha-guna-yukto=neka-cha (cha)ta[r]ddan[t]a-yuddh-[{"]våpt-chata.
Second Plate; First Side. 12 r-udadhi-saļi!-âsvådita-yasah srim[8]n Harivarmma-mahadhirajaḥ [11] 13 Tat-putraḥ śriman Vishnugopa-mah[@]dhirajaḥ [11] Om Tat
putra) 14 Eva-bhuja-bala-paråkrama-kraya-kr[i]ta-rajyah Kaliyaga-baļa-pank-&va-, 15 banna-dharmma-vsish-ôddharana-nite (tya)-sannaddhaḥ sriman-Madhave
mahadhirajah 1(11) Om 16 Tat-putra[h*] Srimat-Kadamba-kula-gagana-gabhastimaļinaḥ 110
Kripa(shņa)varmma-sama). 17 hadhirajasya priya-bhaginêyê
vidyâ-vinaya-paripůrit-à
From the original plates. Metre : Sloka (Anusbțubb). Read jáhnavlya. !! These marks of punctuation are unnecessary. 7 Read kdúcha na. . Reud freman-madhara mahd, according to the Nagamangala grant, line 11. • Represented, bere and throughout, by plain symbol. 10 This mark of punctuation is unnecessary.
