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İNSCRIPTIONS OF THE REDDIS OP KONDAVIDU.
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54 पूर्वदत्ता' नरेन्द्रश्च यत्नाद्रक्ष [श]तकतुः [*] 'महीमहिभूता श्रेष्ठा दानाश्रया
नुपालनं ॥११ विंध्याट55 वीवीष्वतीयासु शुष्क कोटरवासिनः। कृष्णसर्या भि' जायंते व्रह्मदायापहारकः ॥ 56 १२ न विषं विष[मित्याहु: ब्रह्मखं बिष" उचाते । विषमेकाकिनं इंति ब्रह्म 67 खं पुत्रपौचिकम् ॥१३
Third Plate.
68 षष्टिवर्षसहयाणि खर्गे वसति भूमिदः । हरणनानुमंताच तस्यैव नरक
वसेत् ॥• रिणह-16 69 र्ता भूमिहर्ता हारीता" हि ते त्रय: । एते च नरकं यांति यावदिंद्रचतर्द60 श ॥ ॥ "रिणहर्ता भूमिहर्ता हावेतो तुलया धृती[*] क"
No. 33:-THREE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE REDDIS OF KONDAVIDU:
BY J. RAMATYA, B.A., B.L.
A.
This inscription is engraved on three sides of a stone pillar planted in front of the temple of Virabhadra-svāmin in the village of Phirangipuram in the Sattanapalli täluka of the Guntur District. I first saw and copied it in April 1897. Subsequently, my friend Rao Sahib Krishna Sastri visited the place and took an estampage of the inscription, from which I edit it. The letters are cut deep and the inscription is in an excellent state of preservation.
The Telugu characters and orthography of this inscription are similar to those of the Tottaramfidi platea of Kataya-Vema.s In the present inscription, however, the aspirated forma of b, d and p are distinguished from the unaspirated ones by a stroke resembling the Telugu figure 1 affixed at the right-hand corner of the bottom of the letter. This sign is not found in the case of bha, bhā and bhu, the first and last of which are, however, distinguished from the corresponding unaspirated letters by the presence of the talakattu or top-stroke. Sometimes a consonant is unnecessarily doubled after an anusvāra as in vinodunddu-(1. 103).
A remarkable feature in the orthography of the Telugu portion of the inscription is the use of the sign of the pārnanusvara for denoting ardhanusvāra as in rokkaindu-(1.97 f.), -patt
1 Read दत्ता.
- Read शतक्रती.
- Read मही महीधतां. • Read श्रेष्ठ. The syllable or is written below the line. • Read दानाच्छेयोन
.Omit the first बी. Read हि. B Read ब्रह्म
• Read °हारका:- Read त्याहुब्रह्म
ii Read विवमुच्यते.
12 Read ब्रह्म - Read षष्टिं वर्षसहखाथि. " Read इर्ता चैवानुमन्ता च. 15 Read तान्येव नरकै. - Read ऋणहर्ता. 11 Read तथा हारथिता.
9 Read चयः " Rend °दिन्द्राथ. 20 Read ग.
11 The inscription abruptly stops herts *A station on the Bozwada-Guntakal branch of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway.
Above, Vol. IV, pp.8182
