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No. 13.)
TWO GRANTS OF DANDIMAHADEVI.
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Mr. Beal, Sir A. Cunningham supposed Kong-2-t'o (hitherto transcribed by Konyodha) to be Gañjám, and Mr. Fergusson took it as nearly certain that the small kingdom of Kong-u-t'o was
somewhere between Kattack and Aska' (in the Gañjam district). Inasmuch as both our grants come from Gañjâm, either statement would tend to support my identification. On the maps I have searched in vain for a dame like Kongoda. In Hiuen Tsiang's account of the kingdom of Kong-u-t'o there is one point to which, in concluding these remarks, I may draw attention. The written characters of the people of that kingdom, he says, are the same as those of Mid-India.' In other words, they belonged to the northern alphabet, just as is the Case with the characters of the grants here edited, grants which otherwise one would rather have classed with the southern inscriptions.
TEXT.
First Side. 1 Om[ll] Svasti: vyastajal-Abhra-vibhrama-haraih sveta[tpa]tr-5ôtkarair=
avathiya-frutichamaraig=va(cha) 'bha(ha)sita-vyákota-k2 sôdayair-uddamair-mmada-saurabhais-cha kariņám=&kshipta-saptatea(chchha)d-Bâmðdaiḥ
Bannihitun ead=aiva Sara3 d-Arambha-riyam-vi(bi) bhrataḥ 11 [19] Srimad-Gubesvara påţta(ta)ka-niv&si
vijayaskandhâvârât || Sarvv-888-pa4 ripuran-adhika-ruchirayas=t&pam=astan=nayann=&nandan-kritavân(ã)-janasya manasi
10 praptam=pratishtha (shtha)ñ=chiram [1] 5 saddsishți-pratirôdhi yêna cha tamo nirmmülam=0(a)nmülitam
grimán-indur-iv-ávanipatir-abhad-Ummatta6 singh-Ahvayah 11 || [2] Tad-vamśâd=abhavann=anindita-guņa muktamayaḥ
sadgata 19 sad-vpittaḥ sukha7 8 (61) talâh kshitibhřitaḥ 13 sri-Madgap&q-14Adayah | yê nita hriday-8gra-tapa
8&(sa)manê de8 v-anganabhiḥ svayan-kaņķhaslesha-sakha[] sthiti-praņayinð hår-Abhiramaḥ
kritâh || [3] Ta9 d-vamsəbhavad=arjjita[be]46 krita-vo(ba)dha-priti[h] pratit-dayo dôvab
datruvadhu-mukhônda-tarapi[b] " Sri-Lô10 nabhård 18 připaḥ [1] yasy-Akramya garapratapa-sikhinaḥ prithvibhțita[h]"
prðdva(ddha)tán dúramsarva 11 digantarëshu tarasd * svairamaprasasruh karaḥ 1 || [4] Tasy=&tmajaḥ
pranata-pârthiva-chakra-cha12 nirvvyšja-rôpita-padas=charitártha-Dâmá [1] viståri-saurabha-gun-8daya-pürit-Asas=
tasm -45
From impressions supplied by Mr. Venkayya,
Denoted by a symbol. : Metre of verses 1-4: Sardilayikra ta.
• The grant B bas-pibarama-dharaih. B has redtdtapratre; read fedtdtapatra
• B has artiya-; read abofya.. 1 B has hasita..
• B has taptachchhad.. • B has pdtaka-sanita-vio; I should have expected pdtak-dodsita-ve". 1° B has only prdtai chiras.
1 B has sit-dhaya ; read wish-dheayah. 1 B has sadiatdh; read sangatd” (or regatd). Bomite sad-opittd. 1 B has athitibhrital.
# B has frimadagapdd- ; read trf-Mangapdd-(P). 15 B has urgita.. * The sign of visarga was originally omitted, but seems to have been inserted afterwards; B has attin. #1 This sign of cisarga also was originally omitted 18 Bhas - Lánabard. 19 This sign of visarga also was originally omitted.
B has tarihd. 11 B bas kard I.
" Metre: Vasantatilakt. Instead of taunda B has trimd, which is a better reading.
