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No. 22.]
PEYALABANDA ORANT OF KRISHNARAYA..
131
Ll. 12-20. " Moreover, it is also given to them according to the same terms as mentioned above (and) confirmed by me, for the increase of my own merits, for repairs to whatever may be worn out or broken in the temple) of Lord Kārtikēya established by me, as also for the maintenance of bali, charu, sattra, perfumes, incense, lamps, and oil.
“Therefore, you yourselves shall offer to these persons (donees) shares, the tribute of the customary royalties, taxes, gold, etc., and shall be obedient to (their) commands.
"And this grant shall not be confiscated by those kings who will be born in our family, (but) should be assented to, and preserved, as in the (previous) time. (And) the tribute of the tates which by custom should not belong to the king, should not be taken.
“Whosoever confiscates this grant-he shall be contaminated with the guilt of the five great sins and the minor sins."
LI. 20-27. The usual benedictory and imprecatory verses.]
LL. 27 ff. (This charter) has been written, in a century of years, increased by ninetyone, on the tenth day of the second month of Ashādha, by the Mahāsändhivigrahika Manoratha, the grandson of the Bkögika, the Amātya Phālgudatta, (and) the son of the Bhögika Varāhadinna. The Dutaka (is) the Mahābalādhikrita, the Kshatriya Śivagupta. Moreover the Dutaka, in the matter of conveying the letter (ordering) the remission of taxes on ploughs, (is) the Uparika Mātrisiva.
The boundaries (are) :-in the north, a boundary-trench as far as (its) mouth. On the east, the river Kardamilā. On the south, again. (there is) a trench with & winding course up to its) mouth. Near the village Gavāyanagartikā (there is) a low hill (kachchhaka) in the middle of the trench facing Dandapāli' towards the south. On the west of the village, there is a western trench.
No. 22.-PEYALABANDA GRANT OF KRISHNARAYA.
By Y. R. GUPTE, B.A., M.R.A.S. These copper-platos, which belong to Mr. Archaka Venkatachar, were obtained on loan by the Tahsildar of Rāyadrug for the Assistant Archæological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, Madras, who noticed the record incised on them in his Annual Report er. Epigraphy for 1913. The following is an extract from the description of the prates he has given there - The plates which are well preserved are held together by & ring with a seal which bears on its countersunk surface the figure of a boar facing the proper right. The plates measure on an average about 74" from side to side and about 11/" from the highest point in the curved top to the bottom."
The language of the record is Sanskrit verse throughout, with the exception of lines 88 to 98 which are written in Kanarese prose. The alphabet is Nandinigari of the period to which the-inscription belongs, i.e., about the 16th century A.D. As regards orthography, the record contains most of the peculiarities and defects common to the Vijayanagara grants of the period, which need not be mentioned here.
[Apparently from Fleet's C. 1.1., Vol. III, p. 199.-Ed.)
Dongar in Central Hindi and Marathi. • Probably '& row of bars', or a bridge'. • See p. 13, Appendix A, No. 7.
