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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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Of lines 1-59 of the inscription, which contain the genealogy of the donor, commencing with Polekési-vallabhs (Pulikesin I.), it would be superfluous to give a translation or even an abstract of the contents. Lines 1-35 have been translated by Dr. Fleet in Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 128 f., and lines 36-52 by Dr. Hultzsch in South-Ind. Inscr. Vol. I. p. 146 f. ;' and every historical fact, recorded in the inscription, has been fully discussed by Dr. Fleet and by Prof. Bhandarkar in their accounts of the Western Chalukya dynasty.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1 'Svasti [lo] Jayaty=&vishkrita[i] Vishņör=vvåraham kshobhit-arņavan [1]
dakshin-Onnata-dashtr-igra-vifrånta-bhuvana [m] 2 vapns-Srimata[m] sakala-bhuvana-sarstůyamAna-Manavy8-sagtrånar Hariti.
putra3 nam sapta-lôkamåtribhis=sapta-måtribhir=abhivarddhitânám Kårttikêya-parirakshaņa
pre4 pta-kaly&paparamparkņam-bhagavan-Narayana-pra & ds.&m&sdita-vardhala . 5 chhampêkshana-kshana-vasikfit-Abdsha-mahibhřitáñ=Chaluky&n[m]? kulam-alamka6 rishpôr-abvamêdh-avabhşithasnana-pavitrikrita-gåtrasya
eri-Polek. 7 si-vallabha-maharajasys Būnuh-paråkram-[4] kranta-Vanavasy-di-parapsipati-ma8 adala-prapibaddha-visaddha-kirtti ri-Ki(kl)rttivarmma-prithivivallabha-mahârâjas=
tasy9 tma[ja]s-samara-samsakta-sakaldttar&pathêsvara-bri - Harshevarddhana-paraja10 y-[p]Atta-paramêsvarafabdastasyal
Satyasraya-driprithivina(va).
Second Plate; First-Side. 11 llabha-maharajadhiraja-paramédvarasyalı
priya-tansyasya prajfiâta-naya12 sya kbatga(dga)mâtra-sahầyasya Chitrakanth-Abhidh&na-pravara-tara[]gamên\=aikên=
aiyo 13 18aldit-Aedsha-vij[i]gishôr=avanipatitritay-Antaritam SV&-gur friyam-atma14 sâtkritya!
prabhava-kalina-dalita-Pandya-Chola-Kerala-Kalabhra-prabhfiti-bhd15 bhfid-adabhra-vibhramasy aknanyavanata-K&iohipati-makata-chumbita-på.
1 For the proper explanation of the word trairdjya in line 18, so now Dr. Fleet in the second edition of bis Dynastios, Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I. Part II. p. 862, note 6.
1 Owing to my different reading, I do not take the compound gharamdw-drpas in line 49 as a proper dame. * From impressions supplied by Dr. Haltssob.
* From here down to the word bhaffdrakarya in line 86 the text is sentially the same as the text of the three Nerur copper-plate inscriptions of Vijayaditys, published in Ind. 4. Vol. IX. p. 126 f. Some sligbt verbal differences will be pointed out below. • Metre: sloka (Anashtabh).
Read map l. 1 Two of the Nerdr plates, mentioned above, bave Chalikydadah. . The two platen, mentioned in the preceding note, have Pulabdi.
. This is the reading also of the cognate inscriptions, with the exception of the Haidarabad plates of Polikenin II., which bave pratibaddha; nee Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 78, text 1.7.
10 This tarya is out of place here and should have been omitted. The three Nordr plates have babdanya. 11 Hore one would have expected Searas darya. 11 At first sightgamense seems to be engraved, but the last akahara in the original really is pai. u The three Neror plates, mentioned above, have tadrit. 14 Originally friyanis seems to have been engraved. Rondadt-krited.
# The four copper-plate inscriptions of Vinayadity, instead of this, have an epithet which, in my opinion, is prabhdus-kulifa-dalita-Cabja-Pandya-Kerala-dharaldhara-ndyandra-nanabringaaya; see Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 86, 1, 16, and p. 89, L. 16, Vol. XIX. p. 160, 1. 11, and Vol. VII. p. 801, 1. 16. The epithet of our text occur first in the plates of Vijayaditya, ibid. Vol. IX.p. 127, 1. 12.
