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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
Inscription C.
TEXT.
1 Sak-ab[d]amulu sahasrambunu mun[n]ata-muppadi[y-eḍunu]
2 lyopp[u] migula mahaniyam-ains Manmatha-vatsarambuna Ma[kh]a- masa
3 munam bürṇima-dinamuna | Hemadri-dana-chimtamaniy-a
4 riraya-basuva-Samkar[u]ḍ-aji-Phalgunumḍḍu sa-mad-ari-raya-ve
5 sya-bhujamgumḍḍu Vēmaya-Rachavemana-kshmävarumḍḍu dalli
6 Sürambachē samutpamnam-aguchum [1] baragu Samtāna-vā
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7 rdhiki varuva ganga En-o]layu giri-vahinula Jaganobbagamḍa-[*]kā. 8 luva ghatimchen-a-tarakambu ganga ||
| Srinatha-kriti ||
No. 34.-MAREDAPALLI GRANT OF SRI-RANGARAYA II; SAKA 1497.
BY V. NATESA AIYAR, B.A.
The subjoined grant is published from two sets of Sir Walter Elliot's ink-impressions which the late Government Epigraphist for India was kind enough to place at my disposal. It is dated in Saka-Samvat 1407, the cyclic year probably being Yuva, and belongs to the reign of Sri-Rangaraya II, of the third Vijayanagara dynasty. Mr. Sewell is of opinion that this date marks the commencement of Śri-Rangaraya's rule.
Although a number of inscriptions belonging to this dynasty has already appeared in the pages of the Indian Antiquary and the Epigraphia Indica, yet not a single Sanskrit inscription of this particular king has been published in extenso. And what is more, even the chroniclers of these times do not seem to have thought it either necessary or proper to make more than a passing mention of the successors of the renowned Ramaraya on the Vijayanagar throne. This, perhaps, is partly accounted for by the fact that the battle of Talikota of A.D. 1565, in which king Ramaraya fell, sounded, as it were, the death-knell of the dynasty and crippled its power and resources once and for ever. Nevertheless, it can hardly be doubted that such information as can be gleaned from the grants and other documents of the rulers of this
Sewell's Forgotten Empire, p. 218.
A fragmentary translation of an inscription of this king from Devanahalli in Mysore is published in Mr. Rice's Mysore Inscriptions. See No. 140, p. 252 ff,
