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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(actually sudhdha, as he put it) instead of krishna, and for some reason or other cited the year as 888 instead of 389.
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South Face. 1 Omd (Sva]sti (ll) M -vu-u- um=udadhim kritt
Svadhim médini - 2 - chakra u-u-uudharo bhumjan bhaj-&sêr=b[b]aļât | - 3 nya-sri-jaga-u-vupatir=Ggang-anvaya-kshmabhujan | bhusha4 ratnam-abha[d-aráti]-vanita-vaktrându-mêgh-Odayah [11] Om Om 5 Om Gadyam | Tasya sakaļa-jagati tal-attamga-Garaga-kula-kumuda6 kaumudi-mahật[êja]yamânasya
Satyavákyl-Komguņiva7 rmma-dharmmamaharajadhirajasya Efishnaraj-Ottara-dig-vijaya8 vidita-Ga(gurjjar-Adhirajasya! Vanagajamalla-pratimalla-balava9 d-Alla-darppa-dalana-prakatikpita-vikramasya Gandamárttanda-p[r]ata10 pa-parirakshita-simhâsan-di-sakala-rajyacbibpasya | Vindhy-ata11 [vi]-nikata-vartti ...... nd&ka-Kiráta-prakara-bhamga karasya 12 [bhu]ja-bala-pari(pålita)-Manyakheta-pravēsita-chakravartti-kata13 [kasya ) vikram-[Anushthitaj-érimad-Indraraja-pattabandh-ôtsavasya | 14 .................. sarautskhita-samara-sajja-Vajjala15 ...... gha...... nasyal bhay-panata-Vanavasi-des
adhi16 [pa] ............ maņikaņdaļa-madadvip-adi-samasta-vastu
gra17 (ha)na-samupalabdha-samkarttanasya | pranata Mathra-vangaja[sya 1 jo 18 [ra]jasuta-ba(ka)ta-bhaja-bal-ávalêpa-gaja-ghat-Atopa-garyva.durvvfi. 19 tta-bakala-Nolamb-adhirija-samara-vidhvamsakasya
samunmu20 lita-rajya-kantakasya samchürņņit-Ochchamgi-giridurggasya samhfi21 ta-Narag-Abhidhana-Sabara-pradhanasya
prat&p-ivanata-Che22 ra-Chola-Panya-Pallavasya ! pratipaļita-Jina-shsanasya 23 ...... [ma]hd-dhvajasya balavad-ari-nripa-dravin-&paharana.
1 It is probable that the year WAA 880 ourront; and he niay have turned it into 388 in order to cite the expired your. Re that as it may, instances of the quotation of wrong year cnp be adduced from unquestionably genuine dates. And, among the spurious dutes, an interesting and instructive instance is furnished by the Kurtakoti grant (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 217), which purports to be of the time of the Western Chalukys king Vikramaditya 1. and to be dated Saks Sarvat 630 (or 582) expired: the details of this data are correct-(except that the solar eclipse, quoted as a total one and described conventionally As such, was an annular eclipse; to the extent, however, of eight and a half digits, and therefore well-marked one) for Sunday, 11th May, A.D. 1119, in 8.-8. 1041 expired, and in the year 629 (current) of the era of A.D. 590-91: here, the forger produced the necessary semblance of antiquity by distinctly quoting the year of the later ers as a Saks year; and here, again, be intentionally omitted to quote the saneatsara, because he knew that the sandataarn for s. 3. 1041 expired would not be correct for 8.-S. 529 or 580 (or 582) expired.
• From the ink-impressions.
• Represented by a plain symbol, here and throughout, except in the case of the centre one of the three the end of line 27, where an ornate symbol is used,
• Metre, Serdülavikridita.
. Mr. Rico's text bus praeddita, wbich, of course, at once sugrested praodeita, "expelled (from Manga kbéta)." The real reading is quite clear.
• Mr. Rice's translation representa the Nolumba ns swollen with pride from receiving obeisance from the son of ...... of the Maçara family, and this implies some proper name, illegible, after ansaja. But there is no room for any name: at the beginning of line 18, there is only one illegible akshara, which in evidently to be restored and; and at the end of line 17, after the ja, the back of the impression distinctly shows remnants of sya.
