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No. 9.]
KONKUDURU PLATES OF ALLAYA-DODDA.
(L. 19.) Having seen this order), the inhabitants of the hótfam and the inhabitants of the n&du reverently placed (it) on their heads and planted stones and milk-bush (along the boundarioa)' before an accountant of the royal palace and an elephant of the royal palace."
(L. 22.) According to the royal order which was issued in writing, the eastern boundary of this village of) Skandafishyamangalam (i) to the west of Mapittiçal; the southern boundary (s) to the north of Kurumadi; the western boundary (is) to the east of the ancient village oalled Ilattaippadi; aod the northern boundary (in) to the south of Kurukku[di] on the west of the TiruvdjAlamudi (hill).
(L. 27.) The land enclosed within the four great boundaries thus proclaimed, wherever the iguans runs and the tortoise crawls, not excluding the cultivated land," was given to this Brahmana.
(L. 29.) The exemptions granted are (the taso on) looms and (the tas on) shops, the rent of the goldsmiths, the cloth on the loom, the best cow and the best ball, the tax on toddy,' the tax on weight, and the tas on) residence within the villago); with exemption (from those) and all other kinds of burdons (the village war granted).
[Verse 4 contains one of the customary admonitions to future kings.]
No. 9.-KONKUDURU PLATES OF ALLAYA-DODDA:
SAKA-SAMVAT 1352.
BY G. V. RAMAKURTI, B.A.; PARLARIM EDI. These plates were discovered in 1887, deposited in a small square receptacle in a brick mound in the village of Konkuduru, 5 miles north of Ramachandrapuram in the Godavari district. They were not claimed by any one as private property, and Mr. S. H. Wynne, the Collector of the Godavari district, sent them in September 1893 to Dr. Haltzscb, to be kept in the Madras Museum. The set consists of seven oopper plates with raised rims and strang on a ring. The ends of the ring are secured in the crescent-shaped base of an oblong pedestal, which bears & recumbent figare of the sacred ball Nandi, with the symbols of the sun and the moon in front of it. One end of the ring is loose, and the plates may be detached from the ring by bending it. The size of ench of the plates is about 101 by 5, and the ring-hole is about t' in diameter. The ring measures about 4" in diameter and is about }" thick.
I edit the inscription from two sets of ink-impressions, kindly sent to me by Dr. Hultzech. All the plates except the fifth and the seventh are numbered by Telagu numerals, engraved
Compare line 110 t. of the Kafakadi plates. • Compare IL 174-176 of the large Leyden grant; and Ind. Ant. VoL XX. p. 288 t. and Vol. XXII. p. 76. • See South Ind. Isor. Vol. II. p. 860, bote 1. • See ibid. Vol. III. p. 26, note 2, and 1. 805 f. of the large Leyden grant.
The two terms tari and kdan occur in the same order in line 77 of the Kdram plates. Instead of this, two later inscriptions have tarly-irai, the tax on looms,' and leadsiirai, the tax on shops ;' see South-Ind. Inser. Vol. I. p. 88 f.
With tattár-kldyan compare taţfdr-ppáttam, ibid. Vol. 11. p. 114, line 2 from below; Vol. I. Index, 6. v. tattdr; and 1. 30% of the large Leyden grant.
1 Jostead of tari.tkdrai, the sme grant (1. 808) has the synonymous term tari-pondarai.
The same two terms occur in line 127 of the Kasakuļi plates and in line 304 of the large Leyden grant . Instead of ffa-pptokchs, the same grant (L. 386) reads llam.prohl.
With idai-ppiloheki compare idri-ppdffam in the same grant (1. 304) Aad idai-pari in South-Ind. Inser. Vol. II. p. 117.
11 No. 18 on the Madras Burway Map of the Ramachandrapuram taluka.
