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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Vol. X.
tender tamarind (tree); from the tamarind (tree) the ditch that runs into the tank) Nolambasamudra; from the ditch, in an easterly direction, the banyan (tree) in pebbles i.e. in a gravelly soil); east of it (the tank) Kövanakere. There, (is) the eastern (boundary) stone ; (thence) the southern embankment of the tank of Budugūru; likewise, to the east, the elephant-(like) boulder; thence) to the east the big banyan (tree) ; likewise, to the east, the southern ditch of (the tank) Patçidamanēri; to the east of that ditch the short banyan (tree) (?)'; to (its) sonth the natural pond (sone) of Bandalvaralu(?); likewise, to the south the ditch with the fig tree . . . . . . . . . . . ... [LI. 95 to 110 contain four of the usual imprecatory verses).
TRANSLATION OF INSCRIPTION B. The prosperous Ayyapadēva, the asylum of trath, son of the illustrious MahēndraNolamba, having given Buduguru with libations of water, the glorious Lokayya, younger brother of Dosayya, who is the illuminator of the doctrine of the Arbats, presented (that village) to the basadi of Nidhiganna. (And) Nidhiyanna too, presented to the same basadi) for worship (therein) & garden on the western bank of . . .
having acquired (it).
No. 15.- KARAMDANDA INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF KUMARAGUPTA
(GUPTA-) SAMVAT. 117.
BY PROFESSOR Sre Kosow, Ph.D.; CHRISTIANIA. This inscription is incised on a stone linga which was excavated from an ancient site called Bharādhi Dih near the village of Karamdamda, about 12 miles from Faizabad on the road to Shahganj, District Faizabad, United Provinces. Karamdamda will be found as Karamdanda in the Indian Atlas, Quarter Sheet 87 S.E., at 82° 4' long. and 26° 40' lat. The existence of the inscription was first brought to notice by Kunwar Kamta Prasad, Deputy Collector, Faizabad. A preliminary account of the find has been given by Dr. Vogel in his Annual Report, 1907-08, page 39, and I now publish the inscription from impressions supplied by him.
The ligga itself consists of an upper, circular portion, I' l' high and 101" in diameter, rising from an octagonal base l' 9" high. The lower portion of the hase including the end of the inscription has been broken. The linga will be deposited in the Provincial Museum, Lucknow.
The inscription itself is incised on the base and covers a space 1'5" high and I'71" broad. The letters in the uppermost right hand corner are mach effaced, but they can be restored from other inscriptions. Across the base, at a distance of 11" from the bottom, rang a line, which has made some of the top matras indistinct in the impression, and the final portion of the inscription has been broken off. In other respects, it is in an excellent state of preservation.
The characters belong to the western variety of the Gupta alphabet. The short t is denoted in two different ways, compare Kumāragupta in lines 3 and 7, where the u of gu has two
It is doubtful it the Sanskrit vafa (buayan) could be compounded with the Kanarese kiru-small. Kipuvafi may denote a plant not explained in the dictionaries.
1 Tbe last words at the end of this description of the boundary line are not intelligible to me. We must havo espected some words which mean—'the boundary thence joins the (starting) point,
* The phrase dharayan-eredu kede would have been enough to express the idea, is in 1. 45 f. of inscription d.; adaka-piroram, though redundaat, has perbape, been put in with the object of introducing a familiar B akpit phrase,
