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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XV.
27 सं २०० १० श्रावणबहुल 28 Po [*]
TRANSLATION [Lines 1-12 contain the usual preamble ; for translation of., for instance, that of the opening lines of the Palițāņā plates No. 1, edited by Dr. Sten Konow; above, Vol. XI, p. 108.]
(LI. 13-18.) Be it known to you that for the parpose of increasing the religious merit of (my) mother and father, and for the sake of the attainment of the reward desired (by me) both in this world and in the next, there is given by me (as) brahmadaya, with libations of water, to the Brāhmana Ņanna, an inhabitant of Vala-padra, a member of the Mānava gotra, a student of the Cbbandoga (school),--for the maintenance of the rites of bali, chary, vaifvadova and others,-to endure for the same time as the moon, the sun, the ocean, the earth, (and) as the rivers and the mountains ; (and) to be enjoyed by the succession of bis song and sons' sons ;-in the Hastavapra-aharani, at the village of Chhēdaka-padraka, on the eastern boundary fifty pädāvarttas, the holding of Chaddravaka-Skambhaphyaka, and on the northern boundary of Malakāral an irrigation well with udumbara with an area of sixteen pārlāvarttas, together with bhūta, vāta, gold and ādēya.
(Ll. 19-20.) Wherefore no one should cause the least enquiry of or obstruction to this person while (he is) enjoying (it) in accordance with the proper conditions of a grant to Brāhmanas, (and) cultivating (it), or causing (it) to be cultivated, or assigning (it to another). .. .
(LI. 21-25 contain the usual admonitions and imprecatious.)
(L. 26.) (This is the sign-wannal of me, Mahasamanta Maharaja Dhruvasēna. The dataka is the pratthara Mammaka. Written by Kikkaka.
(LI, 27 and 28.) (On the) 10 3 (of the) bright (fortnight of) Srāvaņa (in the) year 200 10.
No. 13.-SOME UNPUBLISHED AMARAVATI INSCRIPTIONS.
BY RAMĀPRASĀD CHANDA, B.A.
Since the publication of Burgess's Archeological Survey of Southern India, Vol. I, in 1887, no fresh inscriptions discovered at the site of the Amarāvati stūpa bave appeared with plates, though the inscriptions published in that work have been re-examined and corrected by Franke (2. D. M. G., 1896), and all Amarāvati inscriptions published in it and in earlier works have been revised and listed by Professor Lüders in his List of Brāhmi Inscriptions (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, Appendix). After 1887 the site of the Amaravati stupa was thrice excavated by Mr. Rea, late Superintendent of Archeology, Southern Circle, in 1888, 1889 and 1905-06. The inscriptions on marbles removed from the site of Amaravati after the excavation of 1905-06 to the Government Museum, Madras, were copied by Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri, Assistant Archeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, in 1907. Inscriptions on marblos removed before 1906 and lying in the cellars of the same institution were copied by Mr. Venkoba Rao, Senior Assistant to the Assistant Archeological Superintendent for Epigraphy in 1913. I edit tho subjoined inscriptions from these impressions under the diroction and with the kind assistance of Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri and after comparing the readings with the stones (as far as they are now available), being enabled to do so by the courtesy of Dr. Henderson, Superintendent of the Madras Government Museum. The
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