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No. 13.)
SOME UNPUBLISHED AMARAVATI INSCRIPTIONS.
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No. 57 (No. 501 OF 1913). AT TIE LOWER END OF A SCULPTURED SLAD (udha-pața).
TEXT. 1 Sidham Namo Bhagavato Siri-Negichasa pusa [Kallikasa Hashaga bhariyaya
cha Chatiya-put[a]na cha 2 Mahācham damukbasa Chulachandamukhasa balikaya cautarigasa nuthu cha
Haghaya Bhalaha ghaya viya sa(si ?) ra 3....Balasa deya-dbamnam pasti]thapita udha-pata
The names following Balikaya cha in line 2 cannot be made out. I give the syllables as far as I can read them. [Read Utariyasa nuthu cha Haghāya Chula-haghấya ?-Ed.)
TRANSLATION.
Success! Adoration to the Blessed One! (This) upright slab placed (here) is the pious gift of Kalika, the son pusa=putasa) of Sri-Negicha, and of the wife of Hasha (Harsha) and of Maha-chamdamukha (Mahā-chandramukha) and Chula-chamdamukha (Kshudrachandramukha), sons of Chatiya (Chaitya) and his daughter (and the grand-daughter of Utariya Hagha and Chula-hagha) and of Bala.'
No. 58. ON A FRAGMENT.
TEXT. pavachitāyā Bhadaya pavach [i]taya Nakaya doya-dhama nama ......
Read Bhadāya, pavachitāya, Nakiya and deyao. The top stroke of d in deyao appears to be accidental.
TRANSLATION
• The pious gift of the nun Bhada (Bhadrā) and of the nun Naka (Nāga)..
No. 14.-DHANANTARA PLATES OF SAMANTAVARMAN.
BY TARINI CHARAN RATH, B.A. A set of three copper-plates with inscriptions was discovered by me early in the year 1917. They were in the possession of an Uriya Brahman residing at the village of Dhanantata, ritnated in the Seragada Zamindari Estate of the Aska taluka, Goomsar Division, Ganjam District, Madras Presidency. They are said to have been fonnd by him while digging earth in the backyard of his house in the village with a view to preparing mud for constructing a wall.
The size of the plates is about 6" in breadth by 31' in height, their thickness being 't of an inch. Each plate has a circular hole on the proper left side, through which passes & copper ring of a diameter of 3 inches and thickness of an inch, on which these plates are strung. The two ends of the ring are secured by a leaden seal, the legend on wbich is defaced. The weight of the plates together with the ring and seal is 69 tolas. The first and third plates are inscribed on one side only, while the second plate has inscriptions on both sides. The edges
