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1. 9, nga 1. 36, righri l. 17, ñcha 1. 6, nda l. 2, ndya l. 27, ksha and kshma 1. 14, jña l. 8, lpha 1. 16, shtva 1. 4; and lastly final t (P) in l. 33.-As regards orthography, the only points worthy of notice are the following: (1) the use of gha for ha in rajasighah, 1. 4 (of. also 1. 23); (2) no distinction is made between b and v; (3) no role is followed with regard to the use of anusvära in the middle of a poda; (4) wrong conversion of the antstära into + before s sibilant in likhit-ansa', 1. 14 ; (5) once the use of da for dha in dadatā, 1. 5; (6) the use of the vowel ri for ri in tripishtapao (for Otrivishta pa'), 1. 7.-The grant commences with a symbol representing on. Then follows the stanza su võ=vyād=vēdhasd dhama, etc., which stands at the beginning of, I think, all the early Rashtrakata recorde. The rest of the composition is also in Sanskrit: the prasasti, the benedictory and imprecatory stanzas being in verse, the grant proper in prose. Most of the verses of this record are repeated with slight verbal differences in one or other of the following grants: the Sämängad grant of Dentidurga, the Alis plates of Govinda II., the Paithand and the Kāvis grants of Govinda III. Of these it approaches closest to the first mentioned, vis, the Sämāngad grant. The four verses 5, 9, 21 and 22 I have not been able to trace anywhere else. In recounting the exploits of Dantidurga all the early Rāshtrakūta grants repeat the two well-known verses, Kāñchisao and sabhrūvibhariga", etc. Our grant has instead only one stanza, made up of the two half-verses belonging to the two stauzas, a deficiency which, I should imagine, is merely due to the negligence of the scribe. In other respects the execution is satisfactory. And with the help of this text we are placed in a position to correct the extremely corrupt text of the Sāmängad grant with respect to those verses which it has in common with our grant and which do not occur elsewhere.
The grant, as already remarked, is a record of the Rashtrak uta king Kfishpa-raja I. and is of particular importance, being the first record of the king to be discovered so far. Another grant which refers itself to tbe reign of Krishṇa I. is the Alis grant of his son Govinda II., while yet a yuvarāja ; it was issued in Saka 692, that is, two years previous to our record. The genealogy of the Rashtrakūtas given in the present grant commences with Govinda I., As in all other early grants of this dynasty, excepting the unfinished inscription from the Daśāvatāra temple at Ellora ; and the details regarding his successors Kakka-raja and Indra-raja accord well with what we know of them from other records. Here again, as in the Sámāngad grant, the queen of Indra-rāja is described as being a Chālukyan princess, tracing her descent from the Lunar race on her mother's side. But from the new record we gather some more information about her, which in the mangled version of the Sāmāngad grant was distorted beyond recognition. The defective anushubh half-verse,
Srimad-yuvati-ganandi sadhuināmā pa na (sa) padar of the Samūngad graut, stands for some original like
Srimad Bhavaganā nama sadhtindmæupamd padarh which I translate with : Srimad Bhava-gana by name, the (very) standard of comparison developments of loops, where our record has only straight projections or notoher. The middle bar of ja approximates more to the vertical, and the lower portion forms a distinct double curve. These fucts are clear indications of a later palmographic epoch and raise surpicions against the bona Alder of the grant. For this and other reasons I am inclined to entertain the graveat doubts regarding the authenticity of the Simangad grant. Bat, I intend dealing with the question at length in a separate article devoted to the subject, I do not wish to enter into details here.
1 JBBRAS., Vol. 11, pp. 871 ff., ed. Fleet, Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, pp. 110 r., and Plates, • Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, pp. 208 f., and Plate. • Ibid, Vol. III, pp. 105 fl., And Plate.
• Ind. Ant., Vol. V, pp. 144 1. The Kivi graut, vv. 8, 9; the Simängud, vv. 18, 17 (in the reverse order 1); the Alie, vv. 5, 6; the Paithan, 11. 11-14. .
• Since writing these lines I have come to know of the recent discovery of another record of Krishpa-rije, vis. the T.legaon (Poons District) plates dated in the year Saks 690, vide Progress Report of the Archeological Survey of India, Western Circle, 1913, p. 54. [The inscription is published in Ep. Ind., Vol. XIII, PP. 275-288,F.W.T.]
Ed. D. R. Bhandarkar, Rp. Ind., Vol. VI, pp. 208 8. Edited by Bhagyanlal Indraji, No. 10 (p. 91) of the separate pamphlets of the Arohl. Survey of Wouf India
