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No. 20.]
Editor of the Epigraphia Indica having procured the original plates from the Secretary of the Society and having got a new facsimile prepared, I now publish a revised edition of my paper on those plates.
DEOLI PLATES OF KRISHNA III.
1. Dantidurga.
The plates are three in number, each being about one foot in length and about eight inches in breadth. The inscription is engraved on one side of the first plate, on both sides of the second, and on one side of the third. The letters are carefully and well formed in the first part. but in the latter the work is negligently done, and in consequence several letters look alike. The seal bears a figure of Siva.1
The inscription is a charter announcing the grant of a village, named Talapurumshaka (11. 53 and 57) and situated in the district of Nagapura-Nandivardhana, to a Brahman named Rishiappa or Rishiyapayya (11. 53 and 57), of the Vedic schools of Vajin and Kanva and of the Bharadvaja gótra. The grant was made by Krishna III. or Akalavarsha of the Rashtrakuta family in the name of his brother Jagattunga (11. 48 f. and 51), while staying at his capital Manyakheta (1. 46 f.), in the year 882, expired, of the Saka era, corresponding to 940-41 A.D., on the 5th tithi of the dark half of Vaisakha, the cyclic year being Sârvarin (1. 47 f.). The genealogy of Krishna III. is thus given :
2. Krishnarja.
3. Govindaraja.
8. Indraraja. 1
4. Nirupama or Kalivallabha.
5. Jagattunga.
6. Nripatunga.
7. Krishnaraja.
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Jagattunga
11. Amôghavarsha.
9. Amoghavarsha.
10. Govindaraja.
12. Krishnaraja.
[Dr. Gerson da Cunha was good enough to send me the plates and seal for examination. The seal is soldered on the two ends of a copper ring, which is 4" in diameter and about " thick. The ring had been already cut when I received the plates. The seal is of square shape, like that of the Karda plates of Kakka II. (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 268). It measures 21" both ways and bears, in relief, a seated figure of Siva, which faces the front and holds a snake in each hand. On Siva's proper right are, from top to bottom, an image of Ganapati, a chsurt and a lamp; and on his proper left the goddess Parvati riding on a lion, and below her a svastika. At the base of the figure is inscribed the legend Śrimató srthadasya, in which Arthada, the giver of wealth, must be taken as a synonym of Akdlavarsha, which was a biruda of Krishna III. Along the margin of the seal passes a border of various indistinct emblems, among which a linga and an elephant-goad are recognisable.-E. H.]
[It deserves to be noted that the names of the village granted and of its boundaries and district, as well as those of the donee and of bis father, fákhd, gótra and native village, are engraved on erasures. Hence the names of the four boundaries of Talapuramshaks are difficult to read and uncertain.-E. H.]
