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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
देवब्रह्म [ख* ] हारिणः ॥ [ २४* ]
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न विषं विषमित्या [ हु]र्ब्रहा (ह्म) स्वं विषमुच्यते विषमेकाकिनं हन्ति 'त्रहास्वं [ पुत्रपौत्र]कं ॥ [२५*] सवनितान् भाविनः पार्थिवेन्द्रा[न]
भूयो भूयो याचते रान (म) [भ] द्रः । सा[मा]न्धोयं धर्मसेतु नृपाणां काले काले पालनीयो भवद्रि (द्धि) यानीह दत्तानि पुरा नरेन्द्रर्दाना [नि निर्मा[य] वान्तप्रतिमानि तानि को नाम
वाताव[म]मिदं वसु [धा ]धिपत्यमापातमात्रमधुरा विषयोपभोगाः ।
प्राणा[स्तृ]णा[ग्रज]लविन्दुसमा नराणां
धर्मः सखा परमहो परला (लो) क[ या ] ने ॥ [ २८ * ] लिखितं चेदं [ताम्रपट्टकं महाक्षपटलिकठकुरी भोगादिवेरिति ॥
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No. 22.-GADVAL PLATES OF VIKRAMADITYA I.; A.D. 674. BY PROFESSOR E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; HALLE (SAALE).
The owner of these plates is a school-boy at Kurnool, Madras Presidency. He states that "the plates were in his house at Gadval, Haidarabad territory, and that some old woman was saying that they were found in the fields." They were brought to the notice of the Archæological Department by Mr. C. V. Dorasami Aiyar, Clerk in the Settlement Office, Kurnool, and . were obtained on loan through the Collector. I edit the inscription on them from two sets of excellent ink-impressions received from Rai Bahadur Venkayya, whose description of the originals is subjoined here.
These are "three copper-plates, with slightly raised rims, the first and last of which bear writing only on the inner side. The length of the plates is 9 inches, while the breadth varies between 43 inches at the middle and 42 inches at the two edges. They are strung on an ellipti cal copper ring which measures 32" by 37" and is " thick. The ends of the ring are secured st the bottom of a mass of copper, on which is impressed an almost circular seal which is 1" in diameter. The impression bears the rude figure of a boar in a running posture, facing the proper right. "The last plate exhibits a slit which rans from the nearer margin right into the ring-hole. This shows that an attempt may have been made to remove the plate from the ring without actually cutting the latter. The plates together with the ring and seal weigh 160 tolas."
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