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have made (it) an agrahāra which is to last as long as the moon and the sun, have exempted (it) from all taxes, and that, for the sake of the increase of the religious merit of (Our) mother and father and of Ourself, on the eighth (tithi) of the dark (fortnight) of Kärttika, with libations of water, We have given it to Jayaśarman, who resides at Urāmalle, belongs to the Vatsa gotra, (and) studies the Vajasaneya (sākha). Knowing this, nobody should cause obstruction to the new owners) while they are preserving their own land."
(L. 14.) And the marks of the boundaries of this (land are): In the east, an anthill; then the bank (pali) of a field; then the western bank of the Ghoshana tank; and then again the bank of a field. In the south, only the boundary of Hattaravanna. In the west, the bank of a field; then an anthill; then an artificial row of stones. And in the north, the bank of a field; then an anthill; again an anthill; then the boundary) reaches the anthill in the east.
(L. 18.) And future kings should preserve this meritorious gift. There are also the following (verses) sung by Vyāsa.
[Lines 19-22 contain three of the costomary Slokas.]
(L. 22.) Eighty-in figures) 80--years of the reign of increasing victory, the day 8 of Karttika.
(Verse 4.) At the command of his (the king's) own muth, this edict of Rajasimha has been written by Vinayachandra, son of Bhanuchandra
(V.5.) (This is an edict of the glorious Ranabhitz, whore orders are irresistible, (and) who has crushed the Cullection of (bis) euenies by the strokes of the point of (his) scimitar.
No. 20.-IPUR PLATES OF GOVINDAVARMAN'S SON MADHAVAVARMAN.
BY PROFESSOR E. HULTZSCH, Ph.D., HALLE (SAALE).
This is a set of three thin copper-plates in the possession of Brindavanam Gopalacharlzz at the village of Ipür in the Tenkli Taluk of the Gitar District, which was brought to the notice of Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri by Mr. A. Rangasvami Sarasvati. The plates measure 64 inches in breadth and 14 inches in height. The outer faces of the first and last plates have been left blauk, while the middle one bears writing on both sides. The margins of the plates are not raised into rims, but the writing is in good preservation. The plates are strung on a copper ring, which is 3" in diameter and is passed through a hole on the left side of the writing. The two ends of the ring are secured in the base of a ciroular seal, which measures 13" in diameter and is somewhat worn. It is divided by a cross-line into two sections. The lower section bears, in relief, the legend and in two lines. Above the line seems to be a figure of Lakshmi or a Svastika on a pedestal, flanked by two lamp-stands and surmounted by the sun (P) and the crescent of the moon. The weight of the plates, with ring and seal, is 30 tolas.
Tho alphabet is of an earlier southern type than that of the two other published grants of the Vishņukundin family The secondary forms of i and i are not always clearly distin
Cf the corresponding portion of the Achyutapuram plates, above, Vol. III, p. 129.
* These are the Råmatirtham plates of Indravarman, above, Yol. XII, p. 133, and the Chikkulla plate Vikraidēndreyarpan Il, Vol. IV, p. 138.
