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Kondav[e]rupur and to the north of Virparu (L. 12). For Karma-rashtra, see above, Vol. XV, p. 250. Mr. Lakshmana Rao (loc. cit., p. 49) identifies Kondav[e]rupur with Kondavidu, and Virparu with Vipparla, both in the Narasaraopet Taluk of the Guntur District, and Mugamür with Mungamur in the Kandukur Taluk of the Nellore District.
In line 10 we are introduced to a great warrior named Prithividuvarāja whom Mr. Lakshmana Rao (loc. cit., p. 46 f.) identifies with Satyasraya Dhruvaraja Indravarman of the Gos plates of Saka 532.1 I venture to propose another identification. If we connect the participle sampradatta (1. 8) with ajñaptiḥ (1. 14) and with its Prakrit form aṇatti (1. 10), we are driven to consider the words -rajyasya Prithividuvarājam-āṇatti (1. 9 f.) a mistake which would not be without parallels in this incorrect text for rajyasya Prithividuvarājasy-ajñaptiḥ. Now, duvarāja is a Dravidian tadbhava of yuvaraja. If we contrast the title Prithiviyuvaraja, "the heir-apparent of the earth," with Prithivivallabha, "the husband of the earth," which was the title of Kirtivarman I and Pulakesin II; and as it is stated in line 9 f. that Prithiviyuvarāja had "secured the kingdom to the lineage of his son," it seems that Prithiviyuvaraja can be safely identified with Vishnuvardhana I, the younger brother of Pulakesin II and the founder of the Eastern Chalukya dynasty. It follows further that Vishnuvardhana I continued to be dependent on Pulakesin II in the twenty-first year of the latter's reign (text line 13). From the Satara plates we already knew that he held the office of Yuvaraja in the eighth year (of Pulakesin II). In a grant of A.D. 632, which was the 18th year of his own reign, and in the Timmapuram plates, Vishnuvardhana I already bears the title of Mahārāja.
The words Vallabha-sama[ksh]-āvastite (1. 8) may have to be corrected into Vallabhě samakshavasthite, "Vallabha (i.e. Pulakesin II) being present in person." The mysterious words marnta Kali-kulanām... sva-bāhunā (1. 8 f.) may be compared with Kaliyuga-khalanirmathanai[h]. . . .charitaiḥ in the Satara plates of Vishnuvardhana I,' and may be corrected accordingly into matha Kali-khalānām. . . . sva-bāhună, "by his arm. .(which was) a churning-stick of the wicked (people) of the Kali (age)." The compound at the beginning of line 9, which Mr. Lakshmana Rao (loc. cit., p. 53) refers to Prithiviyuvarāja himself, has to be connected likewise with sva-bahună, and has to be corrected into nishkrishtamandalagra-sanathena, "wielding the drawn sword."
Line 13 contains the date of the grant: the year twenty-one of the reign (of Pulakesin II), the month of Kärttika, the great ninth (tithi), a Thursday. For authoritative remarks on this date I refer the reader to the Postscript on pages 260-61 below, which has been kindly contributed by Mr. R. Sewell,
TEXT, First Plate.
1 Svasti [*] sakala-bhu[va ]na-samstuyamana-Manavya-sagotrāṇā[*] Haritiputripath] eapta-lõks-matgibhib) Sapta-Ma
Srimatām
1J. Bo. Br. B. A. S., Vol. X, p. 365 f.
See e.g. above, Vol. VIII, p. 146, note 8, and Vol. XVIII, p. 7,
See above, Vol. IV, p. 180, note 5.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XX, p. 16.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, p. 304.
Above, Vol. IX, p. 317.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, p. 309, text line 5 f.
From ink-impressions supplied by Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Saetti, B.A.
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