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No. 16.)
SIX EASTERN CHALUKYA GRANTS.
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Åkulamannandu, which? ...
. . Damodara, a student of the kramapátha because he is his grandson."
The boundaries are (1. 32): On the east, a large rivalet; on the south, a rivulet; on the west, the boundary-line of Krankatavva; and on the north, the same.
The rest of the inscription warns the people not to obstruct this grant, and quotes two benedictive and imprecatory verses.
F.-MASULIPATAM PLATES OF AMMA II.
[A.D. 945-970.) These plates also were found, some twenty years ago, in the vernacular record room of the Collector's office at Masulipatam, and are now in the Madras Museum. The inscription which they contain has been already published, by Mr. R. Sewell, in the Indian Antiquaru. Vol. VIII. p. 74 ff.; I re-edit it from two excellent impressions, taken and supplied to me by Dr. Fleet.
These are three copper-plates, the first and last of which are inscribed on one side only, and each of which measures about 8" broad by 31" high. They have high, very sharp rime, and are strong on a ring, about 41" in diameter and g" thick, which had been cut already before this record came under Dr. Fleet's notice in the year 1884. To the ring is attached & circular seal, about 28" in diameter. It bears, in relief on a countersunk surface, across the centre, the legend bri-Tri[bh]urantinkufa; above the legend, a boar, standing and facing to the proper right, and surmounted by the son; in front of the boar, a conch-shell with the moon above it; and behind the boar, an elephant-goad; and below the legend, a floral device. - The writing is good, and generally in an excellent state of preservation; but a small piece of the first plate is broken off at the lower proper right corner, causing the loss of two aksharas, which can be easily supplied. The characters belong to the southern class of alphabets, of the time and part of the country to which the inscription belongs. With regard to individual letters, it is sufficient to state that a special sign is used only for the final » (in masan, 11. 8, 13 and 15,"ddhatan, 1. 16, and dattarán, 1. 25). The size of the letters is between " and "--The language is Sanskrit, except that several Telugu words are used in the description of the boundaries, in lines 26-30. Besides one benedictory verse, four verses occur in the genealogical part of the text; the rest is in prose. The orthography does not call for any special remarks.
The inscription is one of the Eastern Chalukya Ammardja (II.) Vijayaditya, also called BAja-mahendra. It records that the king granted some fields at the village of Pambarru in
1 The illegible words perhaps stated that the field formerly belonged to Dimodars, of whom Viddamayya (although called his pastra) probably was a daughter's son.
According to Campbell's Toloogoo Dictionary the Telaga word kodu meana'a rivulet, the branch of river'in Kanarese, the same word means the peak or top of bill.
Compare also Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 271, Q.
• I am doubtful about the form of the initial i which cours towards the end of line 25. It has not come out clearly in the imprensione.
It sbould be noted that the sentence in lines 22-25, which records the actual grant, although preceded by the url itthawedjüd payati, lo not worded like an order, but merely states the fact that the king made the grant. and that the donor is spoken of in the third person, as Ammarkja, instead of being denoted, in the ordinary way, by some form of the pronoun of the first person (ahas daftards, or cambhiradattam). Moreover the first two words (atha fayd 'note to the son of that Pammavi') of the sentence suggest the iden that it wm taken from some other record in which the done's mother had already been spoken of, and that the grant was made in consequence of something or other, done by ber or her son,
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