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No. 31.)
TEKKALI PLATES OF DANARNAVA'S SON INDRAVARMAN.
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47 bhūyo bhūyaḥ prarthayaty-esha Rāmal [1*] Sāmānyõ=yam dharma-sētur
nțipāņām(n) kālē kālē pālanīyaḥ kramēnaḥ 1 [16*) Va(Ba)hubhir-Vasudha 48 dattā rājabhiḥ Sagar-adibhiḥ [1] yasyayasya yadā bhūmiņ(8-)tasyatasya tada
phala || [17] Sva-dattām=para-dattam vā yo harēta vasu49 ndharān(m) [1*] sa vishthāyā[**] krimir-bhūtvā pitsibhis=saha Spachyat[e] [11 18*]
Iti kamala-dal-amvu(mbu)-vindu-lõlan(lām) sri(Sri)yam-anuchintya manushya50 jivitañ=cha | sakalam-idam=udāhsitañ=cha vu(bu)ddh[v*jā na hi purushaiḥ para
kirttayo vilõpyā[h*] 11 [19*] Sréyo-vidhāv=ubhayansa-vi. 51 suddhi-lhājam rāj-ātka(ka)röd=adhigat-âtma-gunan guna-jñaḥ, ātm-ānurūpa-char-tan
sthira-yauvarājyam sri-Rajyapalam-i. 52 ha dūtakam=ātma-putram || [20*]
No. 31.-TEKKALI PLATES OF DANARNAVA'S SON INDRAVARMAN.
BY E. HULTZSCH, Ph.D.; HALLE (SAALE).
Ink-impressions of this inscription were kindly made over to me by Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri. The plates belong to Sri L. N. Deb, Esq., Yubraj of Tekkalt in the Ganjam District of the Madras Presidency. These are " three copper-plates, each measuring about 51" in breadth and 29" in height, and strung on a ring of the same metal. The first plate is inscribed only on the inner face, and the third plate bears only one line of writing on the outer face. The plates do not appear to have had raised rims. The ring is 3" in diameter and is fixed in a circular wal measuring " in diameter, on which is engraved the worn figure of a standing bull with raised hump, facing the proper left. The three plates, with ring and seal, weigh 60 tolas."
The writing on the plates is in a state of very good preservation. The alphabet resembles that of other early grants of the Gangas of Kalinga. The letters and have the saine shape as in the majority of them, while in one of the grants of Indra varman' the closely resembles the 4. The jihvāmūliya is employed in line 18, and the upadhmaniya five times. A final form of m occurs in line 27. The group is written correctly in line 10, but is expressed by w in lines 3 and 31. In line 30 occur the numerical symbol 100 and the two decimal figures 5 and 4. The language of the inscription is on the whole very correct Sanskrit prose, with three verses sung by Vyāga', quoted in lines 25-20. Line 14 contains a few Dravidian words (amba-achchi-poti).
The date of this inscription (1. 30 is the year 100 54=154 ; i.e. the first of the three figures is expressed by the numerical symbol 100', and the two remaining figures are decimals. This fresh date induced me to re-examine the year of the Chicacole plates of Dēvēndravarman, son of Gunārņava, which I had originally read as 100 80 3. Kiel horn noted already that the middle figure is certainly not the numerical symbol. 80', but the decimal 8'. The third figure of the year does not resemble the usual form of 3'; but, as the date is recorded also in words, it must be meant for '3'. Bühler solved this little problem in a very ingenious manner by explaining 1 Read kramena.
[I think we can read it as -Ed.] . [Pbe original wrongly gives pachyata-Ed.] Read ubhaya-varba.
See the Mudras Epigraphical Report for 1924, p. 10, Apr. A. No. 1, and p. 97, para. 2. • See e.. above, Vol. XIV. p. 361 ; Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, p. 123 ; above, Vol. III, p. 121.
Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 120. • Abovo, Vol. III, p. 13).
Above, Vol. V, Appendix, px 91, note 7.
