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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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(Verse 3) The famous Nachana; his younger brother Koppa; his younger brother Vavana; his younger brother Revana; his younger brother Sovana: these were his [scil. Ravideva's] sons, masters of all the sciences, vessels of righteousness; in view of this, who on this earth are so happy as that noble man ?
(Line 14) The fortunate Tripurantaka-devarasa, maha-prabhu of Ehur, son of the General Nacheya-bhaṭṭa, son of the General Koppana-bhatta, who is thus called a noble subject of praise and glory,
(Line 19) on a great parva on Monday the new-moon day of Asvayaja of the year Vikarin, the fourth of the happy and fortunate Sankama-deva, puissant Emperor of the Kalachurya [dynasty],
(Line 23) Om! has granted for the purpose of alimony to the fortunate Jñanarasi-panḍitadeva, head of the monastic establishment of the fortunate god Svayambhu-Somanatha of Ehür, in the [spiritual] succession of Chikka-deva of Miriñje, the disciple of Maleyala-deva, a member of the church of the fortunate Elemela-Simha, with laving of the feet and pouring of water,
(Line 29) in these two places, to wit, [in the one] east of the boundary of the arable land belonging to the god Dayimesvara of Oḍagere, south of the boundary of Bellumbatte, west of the arable land of the god Mutta-Madhava, [and] north of the five mattar previously granted by himself, and [in the other] east of the arable land of the god Isapéévara, south of the boundary of Bellumbaṭṭe, west of the path to Sivapura, north of the river, ten mattar, in figures ten mattar, by the ghale of Oranṭana Malla of the measuring-pole of the tirtha of Elarave, [and likewise] a supply of water from the Appama-gere tank.3
(Line 40) [For those who maintain this pious foundation the fruit will be the same as if they adorned the horns and hoofs of a thousand kine with gold and gave them to Brahmans versed in the Four Vedas in Benares. For him who violates this pious foundation the guilt will be the same as if he destroyed as many kine and Brahmans in Benares. Merit twice as great as from a gift of one's own [accrues] from the maintenance of previous donations; by taking away previous donations one's own gift loses its effect.
No. 38. THE ARIVILIMANGALAM PLATES OF SRIRANGARAYA II;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1499.
BY T. A. GOPINATHA RAO, M.A., TRIVANDRUM,
and
T. S. KUPPUSVAMI SASTRI, TANJORE.
The village of Arivilimangalam is situated five miles south-west of Nannilam, the headquarters of the Taluka of the same name in the Tanjore district. It had an old Vishnu
1 The scribe by an oversight has written the word hattu, instead of giving the numeral symbol.
With a slight difference in the spelling of the prefix, this person is mentioned as Oramtara-Malla in line 281 of the inscription B, above, p. 283.
This is evidently "the tank of Annama-gavunda" which is mentioned in the inscription B, line 240, above,
p. 283.
4 The construction is loose, pratipälisidavaru owing its nominative case to the attraction of the implied subject of kofta. The usual form is pratipalisidavargge.
