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former of which is a tank at Dräksbårima. Now the Tnlyabhāga is one of the main channels leading off from the lower Godāvari. According to H. Morris, 4 Descriptive and Historical Account of the Godavery District (1878), p. 142, it seems to have been originally a natural hollow, of which advantage was taken to form the bed of an irrigating channel by cutting a head to it from the river, and throwing earthen banks across it at various places to raise the water to the necessary height for commanding the adjacent country. It led off from the intended main feeder about a mile below the head-sluice (of the groat dam of the Godavari), and convoyed water to the Kápavaram, Bikkavólu, and Ramachandrapuram taluks, terminating in the salt-water creek which flows in from the sea near Cocanada." The map apponded to the Account shews that it leads off from the Godāvari a short distance south of Daulēśvaram (" Dowlaish woram" of the old maps), and runs more or less eastwards until it comes a little to the east of Anaparti, from which it proceeds E.S.E. Hence we know that Vemavaram must have lain in the Ramachandrapuram tāluka of the Godāvari District; and here we can trace some of the villages mentioned in our record as adjoining it. Pasulapuni (1. 201) is Pasolapadi, 2 miles W.N.W. of the town of Ramachandraparam; Sõmēsvaram (1. 203) is some 4 miles N.W. from tho same; Pom dalapāka (ul. 224, 228), now Pandalapāka, is about 3 milos S.W. from Bikkavõlu. Hence wo may infer with tolerable certainty that Vémavaram lay & few miles N. or N.N.W. froun Rūmachandrapuram town. It is possible, to say the least, that soon after its foundation it dissolved back into the two elements of which it was composed; for there still exists a village of Vedurupāks some 4 miles N.N.W. from Ramachandrapuram, and some 8 miles N.W. from the same town is the village of Mahēndravāda, which seems to be connected with the Pinamahendrāda of our record. Of the other places recorded as adjoining Vömavaram-Vomasänakka-Dod davaram (1. 168, etc.), Velchoru (1. 191 f.), Tallavaram (11. 191, 196, 199), Tollimți (1. 177), Nolla (1l. 206, 209), and Ana-Prola-Roddi-Komaragiripuram (11. 211 f., 214)-I can find no trace.
V.8 mentions RAMögvaram as the site of a battle between Allayn and Komati Vema: this is perhaps Rāmesvaram in the Godavari District. In v. 17 we are told that Vema performed many go-sahasra ritos in Dakshārams: this is the correct spelling for the name now pronounced Drākshärāmal ("Dracharam" in the old maps), a well-known place lying 4 miles S.S.E. from Ramachandrapuram town (see Ind. Ant., vol. XIX, p. 424, and Sewell's List of the Antiquarian Romains in the Presidency of Madras, vol. I, p. 25). Simhadri (v. 17) is usually known as Simhachalam; it is a hill in the District and Tahsil of Vizagapatam, where there is a famous templo dedicated to the lion-incarnation of Visbņa. Purushottama (ib.) is Pari in Orissa.
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First plate : first side. 1 Lakshmim pakshmalitāın tangtu bhavatāın Lakshmi-patis-samtatam keli-kola
tanus-sama. 2 sta-jagatām raksha-vidhau dakshiņaḥ sneh-ārdrām dharapin nij-aika-ramanim
karttum r4883 d-udvahan tat-sarslesha-kutabalāt=pulakito ya[s") stabdha-rom-äbhavat || [11
*Asta maho
This is an instance of the common tendency in Telugu to insert the letter rafter a conjugat. ? From tle plates. • Metro: Sirdúluvikridita. The verse is prepeded by the tankha sytubol. • Metre : Giti.
