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king gave an agrahāra (11. 45 and 57) or mänya (1. 71) to a Brāhmaṇa named Musiya (1. 39 and 51) or Musiyanašarman (1. 56), whose father seems to have enjoyed the complimentary title of Mahārāja (1. 39 ff.), whose grandfather's name was Gundamayya (1. 41 f.), and who belonged to the Bhāradvāja-gotra (11. 42 and 56). The king did this at the request of Durgarija, the great-grandson of PA[pda]ranga (1. 43 f.). Durgarāja seems to have been the royal superintendent of the district (rāja-vishay-adhydisha, l. 53) or feudatory chief of the province of Karma-rashtra (1. 48) and to have communicated the king's decision to the inhabitants of this district and to the donee himself, who is addressed in the second person (tvam) in lines 39 and 51. Durgarāja may be meant also by 'the famous chief of the camp' who was the executor (ājñapti) of this grant (1. 72). From the king's own words, which are quoted in line 44 f., we may conclude that the donee, Musiya, was Durgarāja's minister (mantrin). Both Durgarāja and his great-grandfather, the general Pandarānga, are well known from other inscriptions.
The object of the grant were two fields which had been cut off from the two villages of Aạmañanguru (II. 52 and 59) and Apdoki (1. 54) in the district of Karma-rashtra (1. 48). This district must have corresponded to portions of the Ongole Tāluk of the Nellore District. For, it included the village of Chendalar in this täluki and the two villages of Dharmapuram and Kalvakuru in the Addanki Division of the Ongole Tāluk. Andeki (1. 54) is perhaps an old form of the name of Addanki itself. In the absence of local maps I am unable to trace the four villages which formed the boundaries of the subjoined grant (II. 57-59). The two villages of Karamchôdu (1.55) and Vangiparu (1. 73) where the recipient and the composer of the grant resided, respectively, are mentioned in a grant of Narendramrigarāja in the slightly different forms of Kärañchēdu and Vangiparpu. On sheet 3 of the Madras Presidency Map published by the Madras Survey in 1892, I find ' Karanchédu,' 10 miles west by south of Bapama; and Vangipatru may be the same as Vangipuram in the Bapatla Taluk, which borders on the Addanki Division. On the same map I notice Nútulapád,' about 15 miles west of Bapatla. This is perhaps identical with the village of Nutulaparu in Karma-rashtra.'
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Abovo, Vol. IX, p. 50. In Copotablo'. Hand Atlas of India, plato 34, D, b, Addanki is entered on the left bank of the Gundlskamma rivor. . Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, p. 418.
Xr. R. Sowell's Lists of Antiquities, VoL I, p. 86. Ind. Ant., Vol. XX ,p. 105. . From ink-impressions rugplied by Bao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri, B.A.
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