Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

Author(s): Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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Page 290, 1. 3.-For the Simha-parshad, to which Maleyala-pandita belonged, see Ep. Rep. for 1915, p. 88, paragraph 6.-H. K. S.
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301. In my article on the "Silver plate or disc from Mäpikiäla" (p. 300) I could suggest no interpretation of the second word karavakasa. Karavaka no doubt -karapaka, which Professor Lüders discussed in his article on the Māņikiāla inscription (J. R. A. S., 1909, 654f.) and showed to mean 'superintendent of building,' as first pointed out by Professor Kielhorn. Unfortunately that passage did not occur to me when I wrote the article, or I should have gladly availed myself of the light that his discussion threw on this word. In 1909, however, this word had not been read as karavaka (as far as I am aware), and he naturally made no reference there to this disc. Dr. Barnett has now suggested the equation, and I gladly acknowledge the elucidation offered by him and Professor Lüders.-F. E. P.
309.-In connection with my identification of Karațikallu, it may be noted that a Mysore inscription of about A.D. 1180 (Epi. Carn., vol. 11, Chitaldroog, Dg. 44) mentions the Karadikal nadu, and puts in it a place named Nandavaḍige. Here we recognize Nandwaḍige, in the Hungand taluka of the Bijapur District, Bombay, the misspelt "Nundarudagi" of the Atlas sheet 58, eighteen miles towards south-west-by-west from "Kurrudikul," where there is an inscription of Krishna II (Ind. Ant., vol. 12, p. 221).-J. F. F.
315, 1. 4.-I have ventured to depart from the usual practice and translate
rajakiyānām-anamguli-prekshaniyah by "not to be pointed at with the finger (of hypothecation) to royal officers," because to this day there survives a certain form of mortgage called tor-adavu, which is "a species of mortgage of real property, in which some land or part of an estate is pointed [at] as security for the repayment of a loan" (Kisamwár Glossary, p. 47).-L. D. B.