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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. VII.
lessen by an index wbich will give all dated inscriptions arranged in the order of the Saka years. Another index is to contain most of the proper names which occur in this list.
While doing this work, I often have found cause to regret that I know so little of the vernaculars of Southern India, and I fear that this list must suffer through this want of knowledge on my part. I nevertheless venture to hope that what I offer now will at least såve some trouble to others who are interested in Indian Epigraphy.
A.-The Western Chalukyas of BadAmi. 1.-S. 310.-Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. p. 29-4. Pimpalnêr (spurious ) plates of the W. Chalukya Maharajadhirdja Satyasraya (Pulakasin I.P):
(L. 1).-Sakantipakal-Atita-bamyateara-satdehu tri(tri)shu das-ottardshv=asy[m] samvatsara-masa-paksha-divasa-púryvky&n=tithan.
(L. 35).-süryagrahaņa-parvvapi.
2.-8. 411*.-Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 211, and Plates in Vol. VIII. p. 340. Além (formerly Captain T. B. Jervis's, now British Museum, spurious ) plates of the W. Chålokya Mahdrájádhiraja Pulakesin I. Satyasraya, the son of Raparåga who was the son of Jayasimha I. ; and of his feudatory Samiyara, the son of Sivåra who was the son of the Raja Gonda, of the Rundranila-Saindraka family (or Randranila and Saindraka families) :
(L. 28).-Sakantip-Abd@shy-êkådas-Ottarëshu chatus-satêshu vyatiteshu Vibhavasamvatsaré pravarttamanê . .. Vaisakh-8dita-parņpa-punya-divasê RAh(hau) vidbau(dhôr=) mandalam glasbté (P).
(L. 35).-Vaisakha-paurppamasyam Rahau vidhu-mandala[mo] pravishtavati.
12th April A.D. 488; a lunar eclipse, not visible in India; but see ibid. Vol. XXIV. p. 10, No. 164.
The inscription records the building of a Jaina temple and the allotment of certain grants to it, and gives the line of Jaina teachers Siddhanandin, Chitakacharya, Någadeva, and Jinanandin.
3.-8. 500.-Ind. Ant. Vol. III. p. 305, and Plate ; Vol. VI. p. 363, and Plate in Vol. X. p. 58; PSOCI. No. 39. Badami cave inscription of the W. Chalukya? Mangalesvara Ranavikranta, of the 12th year of the reign of his elder brother Kirtivarman I.):
(L. 6).-pravarddhamana-rajya-samyvatsara d vádase Sakansipati-rajyabhishekasamyvatsardshv-atikråntéshu panohası Satosha . .
(L. 11).-mahl-Karttika-paurppamåsyam.
4.-Ind. Ant. Vol. X. p. 60, and Plate; PS001. No. 40. Bådami Kanarese rock inscription of the W. Chalukys. Mangalesa.
1 For the W. Chalukyas of Gujarkt see my List of North. Inser. Nos. 898, 400, 401 and 404. Of the (unpublished) Balear plates, dated in 8. 668, of the Jaykbraya-Mangalarasarkja (also called VinayAditya and Yuddhamalla) who is mentioned ibid. No. 404, an account is given in Jour. Bo. 41. Soc. Vcl. XVI. p. 5, and Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 75.-In Jour. Bo. 41. Soc. Vol. XX. p. 49 is published a Sanjan copper-plate inscription which professes to bo of the time of the W. Chalukys Vikramaditys I. and to record grant by his paternal uncle Buddhavarasa, the younger brother of Satyafrays (Pulakesin II.). I hope that this inscription may be re-edited with a facsimile. (For the name Buddhavarna see below, No. 67.)
See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXX. p. 216, No. 26. • The third plate is numbered with the numeral figure 3.
The name Chalukya or Chalukya does not occur in the inscription. . See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXIX. p. 273. • See ibid. Vol. XXX. p. 218, No. 86.
The original has Chalkya.
