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17 vana | I dharmam yovvaru vighna sofinā18 na! Gamga-kartta pad(a)i vēlu kappili.govula 19 brāmhanin jampina påpānam bova20 väru 1 (ID) "Mad-vamsa-jāḥ para-mahiþera-va21 mba-jātāḥ yo(y) vamśa-jāḥg=satatam=u.
Third plate. 22 j["]vala-dha (dha)rmma-chittá [18] mad-dā(dha)rmma yāva paripalana7 23 samohcharartti tat-pāduk[a]-dvayav(m)-aham birasă 24 vah[a*]mi i (D 8Sra-datta[d*]-dviguņam punyam para-dat[t]-ang25 palanaṁ [] paru(ra)-dha (da)tt-āpaharan[e] sya-dat[t*]an nishpa (shpha)26 lam bba(bha)větl (ID) Sva-dattāın para-datta[m] vå yo hamcha 27 Vasundhara[ro] [1 ] sarshțir-v varorsbalo-sahasrāņi vishţä (shţha)28 yam j[]yatě krimill (II)
TRANSLATION. (Lines 1-13)-Hail! Fortune! In the Saka year 1412, corresponding to the cyclio year Saumya, on (?) Saturday, the 15th of the bright fortnight of Kärttika, in the Krittika-yoga,
in the cyolic year Saumya, (which forms) the third ankal in the total of the victorious reign of Vira-bri-Gajapati, the Lord of Gauda, the Lord of the Nine Crores of the Carnatic and of Kalubariga, Pratāpa-Purushottama dēva Mahårāja--I have mado with pouring of water a grant, with tēja-svämya of the eight forms of usufruct, 18 of the village of Potavāram in the district of Ammanam bolu to the god) Lingodbhaval Mahadeva of Chadaluvads on the bank of the river Brahmagundi, for the purpose of the personal enjoyment, stage-entertainment, and (other) splendours of the god.
(Lines 13-20)-To him who maintains this pious foundation shall accrue the merit of performing a hundred sacrifices at Benares; he shall have life, health, dominion, and increase. They who obstruot this pious foundation will incur the guilt of slaying on the banks of the Ganges ten thousand tawny cows and Brahmans.
(Lines 20-28)-I bear on my head the slippers of the offspring of (any) line, -born of my line or born of the line of other kings,--who, inspired with brilliant righteousness, constantly maintain this my pious foundation. The maintenance of another's donation is twice as meritorious as making a gift oneself; if one takes away another's gift, his own donation will be without effect. He who should take away land, whether granted by himself or granted by others, is born as a worm in dung for sixty-thousand years.
1 Read fēsinānu.
* Read kapila. * We should expect göuulani brahmanulanu. • Metre: Vasantatilska. 5 Read makipati..
• Read jās. 7 This part of the verse is hopelessly corrupt. | Metre: slöks (Trishțubh); and so in the next verse. . Read harēta.
10 Read shashfir-parsha.. 11 Read krimin. After the following danda come five ornamental or expletive characters. 19 Incorrect : see above, puge 156.
1 See above, p. 34, note 1. 11 This form of Siva—"Mabādēva arising out of the Linga"-is probably that represented by & flaming Libga from which Siva is seen emerging, while Brahman appears flying up to heaven and Vishnu plunges down into the nether world in order to find whence it arises. An example at Sivaganga is mentioned by Mr. Narasimhachar in his Annual Report of the Mysore Archeol. Department, 1914-16, p. 13. For the legend see Sukshmagoma, 11, 74-6; for the structure, Karanagama, I. lxxiii, II. lxix, Saprabhilagama, xxxiv, 111 ff.; for the ritual Karanagama, I. lxxiv, II, lxix.
