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VEMALURPADU PLATES OF AMMARAJA II.
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(LI. 57-59.) The boundaries of this (agrahāra are) - To the east Mēdalkonda ; to the south Gattipündi; to the west the village named Lēmkonda ; to the north the village named Apmaņanguru.
(L). 59-63.) The limits of the fields (are) To the east a damit (tree) at the meeting point of three boundaries;' to the south-east a pond (gunta); to the south & gönu (tree) with margosa trees on the bank of the Gunţēru (river); to the south-west the salt marshes on the southern side of a lake; to the west . . . . . on the bank of the river; to the north-west & pond ; to the north the Chaligunta (pond); to the north-east a white stone at the meeting-point of three boundaries.
(L. 63 f.) Nobody should cause obstruction to him (viz. the donee). He who does (it) will be guilty of the five great sins. He who protects (the gift) will gain merit. And Rāmabhadra has spoken thus :
[LI. 65-71 contain four of the customary verses (16-19).] (L. 71 f.) The grant (mānya) is a field requiring as seed twenty khāris of kõdrava. (V. 20.) The executor (ājñapta) of this charity (was) the famous chief of the camp.
(L. 73 f.) The poetry was made by Bhattagunda who resided at Vangiparu' (and) belonged to the Ātrēya-gotra. To him two shares (of the grant) were given. Written by Ghanavațţa-Bi[ro]ja. Let there be prosperity!
No. 26.-SANJAN PLATES OF AMOGHAVARSHA I: SAKA-SAMVAT 793.
BY PROFESSOR D. R. BHANDARKAR, M.A., PH.D., CALCUTTA. The copper-plates, which are being edited here for the first time, were originally lying with my brother, the late Professor Shridhar Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, Elphinstone College, Bombay. They were originally discovered, so I was told by him, at Sanjān in the Țhāņā District, Bombay Presidency, and were forwarded to him for decipherment by & Parsi friend of his, whose name I do not know.
At my suggestion, however, Professor S. R. Bhandarkar published a note on two verses from this grant to show the contemporaneity of the Rashtra kūta king Govinda III, the Pratihāra ruler Nāgabhata, the Kanauj sovereign Chakräyudha, and the Gauda king Dharmapāla. These plates constitute the first genuine record of the Rashtrakūta king Amoghavarsha, hereupto known. It is true that many inscriptions of his time have come to light, but none of them seems to have directly emanated from him. The best known of these is the Konnūr stone inscription of Saka 782 which, however, is not an original record of the
1 Prosopis spicigera. * For muyyalikuttu see above, Vol. IV, p. 96, noto 4. · [The word paruvulu has been taken to be the plural of para=& salt marsh.-H. K. 8.) • Here the two fields specified in lines 52-55 are added up.
This is only a half-verse.
• The word yasonidhi is perhaps a general epithet, and not a proper name. The katakāda probably was Durgarāja himself. Cf. above, Vol. IX, p. 50.
"A village named Vangiparru is mentioned four times in a grant of Narendramrigarāja ; see Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, p. 418.
Rie., Viropādhyāya of Ghanavatta. For öja see above, Vol. VIII, p. 140, note 8, and Brown's Telugu-English Dictionary, s.v. õju.
Hore I wish to thank my pupils Messrs. Rakhohari Chatterjee and Chintaharon Chakri varti, to whom a good deal of credit is due for this work. 10 J. B. B. R. A. 8., Vol. XXII, p. 116 and fl.
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