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SPURIOUS SUDI PLATES.
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(L. 42.)- Om! His son (was) the glorious Nitimärga-Konguņivarman, the pious Maharajadhirdja, the Paramesvara, who had the first name of "the glorious Eregangadêva," (and was also called) Komara-vedenga;' whose forehead was adorned with the binding on of the fillet (oj sovereignty) of (or by) Ereyappa ; (and) who effected a public defeat of the Pallavas in battle at Jantepperupeñjeru and other places.
(L. 45.)-Om! His son (was) Satyavákya-Konguņivarman, the pions Maharajadhiraja, the Paramétvara, who had the first name of "the glorious Narasinghadêva," (and was also called) Vira-vedenga.
(L. 46.) -- Om! His son (was) ......................... the glorious Nitimarga-Konguņivarman, the pious Maharajadhiraja, the Paramêsvara, who had the first name of "the glorious Rajamalla (P)," and was also called) Kachcheye-Ganga.
(L. 48.)- Om! (Metre) :- His younger brother, possessed of prosperity and wealth acquired by his own arm, went to the glorious Baddega, the favourite of the earth, in the country of Dahála, and then, being of the most excellent understanding, wedded his danghter, along, of a verity, with the maiden Eloquence, at Tripuri. Or again :- There was born the king who had the appellation of "the glorious Bütuga;” who conquered the host of (his) enemies; who was excessively fierce; (and) who,-being, through (his) might, one who ranked first in enumerations of kings, - when that king named Baddega had gone to appropriate the fortunes of the god) Indra in heaven, took elephants and horses and white umbrellas and thrones from the possession of Lalleya (P), and gave (them) to king Kțishņa. Moreover, from this excessively fierce king Ganga-Gangêya, did not Kakkaráje, lord of Alachapura, acquire (fear) of death ?; did not Dantivarman, named Bijja, hurriedly go in flight) in war to his own Banavasi P; did not Rajavarman become quieted ?; did not Damari, lord of Nuluvugiri, whose country was made quiet, obtain the breaking of (his) pride?; (and) did not Någavarman feel, mid-way, the () very extremity of fear? Having, at command indeed, conquered king Rajâditya, who was made arrogant by pride in (his) array of elephants,having ............ laid siege to the town of Tanjępuri,- (and) having burnt numbers of hill-forts, headed by Nálkôte,- (he), the glorious Ganga-Narayana, of his own accord gave to (king) Krishna lordly elephants (and) horses (and) great wealth. (Arya):With thunderbolts that were the maxims of those who interpret the Vedic writings, etc., (he), king Jayad-uttaranga, cleft open the frontal globes of the lordly elephants who are the expounders of evil precepts, puffed up with the rut that is the doctrine of devotion to one sole object of worship.
(L. 64.) - (Alliterative prose):- Satyanitivêkya-Kongunivarman, the pious Maharaja. dhiraja, the Paraméśvara, who has the first name of "the glorious Bâtuga," (and who is also called) Nanniya-Ganga, while ruling over the Ganga mandala, (which) assuredly (consists of) ninety-six thousand (villages); (and) when staying at the town of Purikara, when eight hundred of the saka years, increased by sixty, have gone by; on Sunday, the eighth tithi, (called) Nandisvara, in the bright fortnight of the month Kirttika of the
11.6."wonder among princes." Komara is a corruption of kumara.
• Or, perhaps, " Bantepperupenjeru." Or, again, two places, the second of them being Pegjeru, - may be named.
sie. " wonder among brave men." ... " the quarrelsome or fighting Ganga." Si.."bad died."
See page 180 above, note 2. 7 The meaning of gandugamahá or ganfugamaha (line 60) is not apparent. ... " the arch of victory." Jayada is the Kanarese genitive.
ne "the affectionnte, kind, or truthful Ganga." Nanniya, again, is a Kenarese genitive.
10 This seems to be the intended meaning of the text; but the word nandoara does not occupy . position corresponding to my translation.- A Nandi var tiths in the month PhAlguns appears to be mentioned in the Peggur inscription (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 102, text line 4-5, and Vol. XIV. p. 76; and Coory Inscriptions, p. 7).
