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No. 11.)
TWO PALLAVA COPPER-PLATE GRANTS.
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published copper plate records and with Virakūrchavarman of the mutilated Darsi plate, since in the Pallava genealogy the name Viravarman occurs only once even in the Vayalar pillar inscription, which mentions Vishnugopa (thrice), Kumāravishnu (twice), Buddhavarman (twice), Skandavarman (five times) and Simbavarman (four times). If Viravarman's identity is thus established, it must be oasy to see that his father Skandavarman would be the first king of that Da me mentioned in the published copper-plate grants and that Vijaya-Skandavarman, his son, would be identical with Skandavarman II. Kumāravishņu, the first king mentioned and the father of Skandavarman I, is probably to be identified with Kālabhartși of the Vēlarpālaiyam plates (South-Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, p. 503), though there may be very little that is common to the two names. In any case the identity of the donor of our graut with Skandavarman II is practically established. If farther evidence is wanted, it is supplied by the style of the language employed in the record, the numerical symbols used and the citation of the date in the third fortnight of the winter season after the manner of the earlier Prākpit grants,
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First Plate; First Side. 1 Svasti vijaya-Tambrapa-sthinat Bhāradvāja-sagotrasya Pallavänām-Aśra2 modlin yājinah mahārajasya śri-Kumāravishņoḥ prapautrasy-ts. 3 ha-prabhu-mantra-sakti-gampannasya sva-viry-adhigata-rājyasya maharājasya
. Second Plate; First Side. 4 sri-Skandavarmmanah pautrasya anoka-samara-labdha-vijaya-yafah-pratäpa5 sya pratap-opanata-raja mandalasya sri-Viravarmmanah putrasya fi6 lavato=numat-Kobar-alauksitasya satya-pratijñasya anoka-go-hirapya-bhämy-ādi
Second Plate; Second Side. 7 dānair=ahar-ahar=abhivarddhamāna-dharmma-samchayanya dēva-dvija-susrüsh-abhirata8 sya sarvva-sāstr-arttha-nirņņaya-tatva-jñasya mabárājasya sri-Vijaya9 Skandavarmmaṇaḥ vachanēna Karmma-rāshtrē adhikritāḥ āyuktakāḥ
Third Plate ; First Side. 10 ngõdu-grāmas-cha vaktavyāḥ Asmai Kāśyapāya dvivodiya shad-aðga11 pāragaya Golasarmmaņē ēsbaḥ Omgõdu-gråmah sātvikēna? 12 dānõna dēva-bhoga-hala-varjjah brahmaděyiksitya ashţādaśa-vidha-pari
Third Plate ; Second Side. 13 hārais-saha samprattaḥ tasmāte sarvva-parihāraiḥ paribarttavyaḥ yo=smach
chhāsana
1 Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1909, Part II, paragraphs 16 and 17.
* Seo remarks by Dr. Hultzech on the date of the Mayida võlu plates of sivaskandavarman ; above, Vol. VI, p. 85. The proximity in date to the Andhra period is also suggested by the spaces marked between words; see note 5 below.
From the original plates and a set of impressions taken by the office of the Assistant Archæological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle.
• The virama of the letter t is expressed by its comparatively shorter size. It is entered below the level of the line.
Almost throughout the record complete words are separated by spaces, as in some of the Andhra inscriptions. • Bend -tattra-jianya.
Read sättvikēna. • The final ta is written below the line, as in line 1.
