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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Lükamahidovi, in substantially the same manner as lines 1-30 of the inscription edited and translated in Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 15 ff.
He, the asylum of the whole world, Vijayaditya (1. 21) the Mahardja, the Rajadhirdja, Paramddvara and Paramabhaffaraka, thus issues a command to all the cultivators, headed by the Rashtrakütus, who inbabit the Gudravára-vishaya:
Now to the son of that (lady of the) Pattavardhini (family), named Pammava, vis. to the Yuvardja Ballajladeva-Valabhata, named Boddiya, Ammardja Rajamahendrat gave the Némi field (and) the Palatu[pa]ri yal] field in the southern quarter of the village of Pambarru.
The boundaries of these two fields are (1. 25): Cof the first fold), on the east, the Inda[ni)-cheruvu (tank) ; on the south, the field of Ratt[o]di; on the west, the margin of the field of Su[ga ?]mmâ ; and on the north, the pannasa east of a field of Vêlpa ; [of the second field], on the east, the pannasa of Dåmapiya, on the south, a big road; on the weat, & river; and on the north, the pannasa . . . . . of Ganthasala.
He also (gave) & house-field (the boundaries of which are]: On the east, . .
. . on the south,. . . . on the west, . . . . . and on the north, the court of audionoe.
Lines 30-32 warn the people not to obstract this grant, and quote a benedictive verne, ascribed to Vyasa.
No. 17.- CHEBROLU INSCRIPTION OF JAYA;
AFTER SAKA-SAMVAT 1135.
Br E. HULTZ80H, PH.D. This inscription is engraved on the four faces of the right one among two pillars in front of the opura of the Nagêdvara temple at Chébrolu in the Bapatla talaka of the Kistna district. I edit it from an excellent inked estampage, prepared in 1897 by Mr. H. Krishna Sastri. B.A. The inscription is in very good preservation. The letters are so clear and well-formed that it Can be read as onsily as print. The alphabet is Teluga, and the languages are Sanskrit verse (lines 1.110 and 149-168) and Teluga prose (11. 110-149).
The inscription opens with some invocations (verses 1-4). Then follows the genealogy of the (Kakatiya) king Ganapati, who traced his descent from the Sun (v.5), his son Manu (v. 6), and the family of the Raghus (v. 7 f.). The earliest historicul ancestor, mentioned by name, in Darjaya (v. 8). His son Beta (v. 8) is identical with Betma, alias Tribhuvanamalla, of the ElAmranatha and Anmakonda inscriptions. After him raled Prola and his son Rudra (v. 8). Mahadeva, the uterine brother of the last (v. 9), and Mahadeva's son Ganapati (v. 10), who
1 Minor differences which may be mentioned are: In line 1 we here have the spelling Hdrill. (instead of wart), and in line 18 Kollakiganda (instead of Kollabhiganda); in line 13 we have only Vikradda (instead of g'woardja-Vikramdditya), and in line 14 and 16 Tal-ddhipati and Taluddhipa (instead of rdlapa And Tala pa rdja), moreover in line 8 the length of Jayasinha's reign is correctly) given a thirty-three (Instead of thirty) york-Verres 2-4 of our inscription oocur, in addition to others, in the inscription mentioned above; verso la leo found in uth-Ind. Iseor. Vol. I. p. 48, 1. 20; and verse 8 ibid. 1. 22, and in Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. P 92, L 28.
• I. Ammarija • The writer perhaps meant to say only 'the Mandrdjddlindja. • 14. the great lodna (or obiet) of tinge.
Ind. Aul. Vol. XXI. p. 197.
