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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[Vol. X.
TRANSLATION. (Line 1.) Hail! From the camp of victory pitched at Āmrakā, the glorious Mahārāja Dahrasēna, (who belongs to the family) of the Traikutakas, who meditates on the feet of (his) mother and father, who is a servant of the feet of Bhagavat (Vishnu), (and) who has performed an astamēdha, addresses the following) order to all Our subjects living in the Antarmandali district (vishaya):
(L.3.) "(We) have granted to the Brāhmana Nannasvimin, residing in Käpura, the village Kaniyas-Tadikāsārikā included in this same district, for the increase of the merit and fame of (Cur) mother and father and of Oarself, for as long as the moon, the sun, the ocean and the earth shall exist, to the exclusion of robbers and of those who do harm to the king, with exemption from all taxes and from forced labour, to be enjoyed by (his) Bons, grandsons, (and further) descendants.
(L. 6.) " Therefore nobody shall cause obstruction to him while he enjoys, cultivates, and assigas (this land)."
(L. 7.) And the holy Vyasa has spoken :[Here follows one of the customary verses.] .
(L. 8.) (This) order (was issued),Buddhagupta being the messenger (dütaka).-ir the year 207, on the thirteenth-13th-(tithi) of the bright (fortnight) of Vaisakha.
No. 14.-TWO NOL AMBA INSCRIPTIONS FROM DHARMAPURI
OF THE 9TH CENTURY A.D.
BY H. KRISINA SASTRI, B.A. The two subjoined records are engraved on the four faces of a pillar which was removed in 1904 from Dharmapuri in the Salem District to the Madras Museum, where it is set up near one of the entrances into the Archeological Section. The pillar measures 5' 4!" by l' 4' on the east face, 5' 6" by 1' 4" on the west, and 5' 51" by 1' 3" on the north and south faces. It is surmounted by a pinnacle from which proceed in the eight directions eight petals which open downwards and are slightly raised at the edges where they meet the margins of the pillar. Prior to its removal the pillar was built into the floor of a mandapa in front of the Mallikarjuna temple at old Dharmapuri. The inscriptions on it were copied by Mr. G. Venkoba Rao early in 19018 and a brief note on their contents is found in the Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1900-01, p. 6, paragraph 11. The pillar has suffered from the vandalism of ignorant people who appear to have used the stone for some purpose or other, with the result that all the four faces are worn smooth about the middle and bear big round indentations 5 to 5 inches
1 Nos. 304 and 305 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1901.
* This is the name by which an almost deserted quarter, about 11 miles from the modern town of Dharmapuri, is known. It contains the temples of Mallikarjuna, Máriyamman and Visbņu. The tank cn whose bund the inscribed slab No. 309 of 1901 (noticed below, p. 64), was discovered, is also quite close to this quarter of Dharmapuri.
Better impressions from which the accompanying plate has been prepared were obtained by Mr. Venkoba Bao about the end of 1901. On this occasion he also copied another mutilated Nolamba record on a broken pillar which was lying in the Mariyamman temple (No. 348 of 1901; see below, p. 63.)
