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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. V.
ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS. Commencing with the words. May the whole world be blessed !," lines 1-14 give the genealogy, with the lengths of the reigos, as far as the Maharaja Vijayaditya, the son of Kali-Vishnuvardhana, in substantially the same manner as the preceding inscription C.
(V. 1.) From his (i.e. Vijayaditya's) younger brother, the Yuvaraja Vikramaditya, sprang that mighty fire-brand to the cotton- the host of his adversaries, the incomparable king Bhima, who filled the horizon with the fame of his many excellent qualities for thirty years.
His son Vijayaditya (1. 17) went to heaven when he had ruled the Vêngi-mandale, joined with the Trikalinga forest, for six months.
(Vs. 2-4.) To him was born & son, able to bear the burden of the earth, king Ammaraja, who rules the whole surface of the earth. The kings in a body have resorted to the shade of his lotus-feet; the bow with which he chastises his onemies is glorified in the three worlds. Evon the Vidyadharis sing to the late his fame which, white like the jasmine and the moon, has reddened the surface of the earth, the fame of him whose enemies have perished.
He, the asylum of all mankind, the Maharaja Vishņuvardhana (1. 22), having called together all the cultivators, headed by the Rashtrakatas, who inhabit the Pennatav&di-vishaya, thus issues a command to them :
"Be it known to you !
(Vs. 5-8.) King Chalukya-Bhima had a foster-mother, named Någipôţi; she was (to hinn) like a second earth, like & warrior endowed with endurance. She had a daughter, named Gåmakamba, like anto Ambika, who drank her mother's milk, sharing it with king Bhima. She brought forth & son, endowed with strength like Kumara, the high-spirited Mahakala, (who became) a general of king Bhima. In battle where fire is produced by the clashing together of the opponents' arms, going before his master, this brave one more than once has annihilated the enemy's army.
To him the village of Drujjuru (1. 31) has been given by Us, with exemption from all taxes."
The boundaries are (1. 32): On the east, the boundary-line of Talugummi; on the south, the boundary-line of Glottiprôlu ; on the west, the boundary-line of Malkapôramu; and on the north, the boundary-line of Adupu.
The rest of the inscription warns the people not to obstruct this grant ; quotes two benedictive and imprecatory verses, ascribed to Vyåsa; and records that (the ?) Katakarija was the Ajfapti (of this grant). E. MASULIPATAM () PLATES OF CHÅLUKYA-BHIMA IT.
[A.D. 984-945.) These plates belonged to Sir Walter Elliot, and are now in the British Museum. From a rather illegiblo label on the original, they seem to have been obtained through Mr. J. C. Norris from Masulipatam. I edit the inscription which they contain from Sir W. Elliot's own impressions, supplied to me by Dr. Fleet.
1. Instead of this, the other known grant of Amma I., published in South-Ind. Ingor. Vol. I. p. 89 11., has au Avustubh verse, conveying the same meaning.
* Verbal differences are: The family name here, in line 6, is Chalukya (not Chdlukya); in the same line we have Batydiraya-vallabha (ipatend of -pallabendra); in line 8, Indr ardja (ustead of Indra-bhadraka); in the sannolino, Vishardja (iustead of Vishnuvardhana); in line 11, Via pweardhana (instead of Vishundja); and in line 13, Vijayaditya-mahardja (instead of only Pijaydditya).
• Mandala-fraya (the old-mandala, gagand-, and dy-mo.) is equivalent to fri-16ka. • Or has gladdened the inhabitants of the earth.
I.e. the goddess Parrau. • Kumara, the god of war, aloo is fakti.yukta, i.e. furnished with a spear'lakti.dhara).
Compare Dr, Fleet in Ind. Ant. Vol. XX.p. 270, N.
