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JURA PRASASTI OF KRISHNA III.
Sravana-Belgola epitaph of the Ganga chief Marasimha', we are told that he became known as the King of the Gurjaras by conquering the northern region for Krishnaraja (III). Evidently, the same campaign is referred to in the Küdlür plates of A.D. 963 which were issued by the same chief and which tell us that Krishnaraja, when setting out on an expedition to the north, himself performed the ceremony of crowning Marasimha as the ruler of Gangapādi.' If the northern expedition, in the course of which our inscription was written, is identical with the one mentioned in the Sravana-Belgola and Küdlür records, it must have taken place in A.D. 963-64 which was, according to Fleet, the first year of Marasimha's rule. Consequently, the inscription under publication will have to be ascribed to that very year, viz., A. D. 963-64.
The prasasti was written by Chimmayya at the instance of Tuyyala Chandayya, the younger brother of Kamaisetti. Both these persons appear to be new, for they are not known from other records.
1 Svasti [*] parama-bhaṭṭāra2 ka parameévara śri-'pri3 thvi-vallabha] maharajā[dhi]4rja nena)]llars-maruļan-ā
ne-[vedethath chalake-na[llä
6 tam [vairi]-vilasam mada[ga]
7 ja-mallah parāṁgana-pu
8 tram ganda]-mārtaṇḍan-Akāļava
9 risham Nri[patu]mgam ka[ch]chegam irl
10 mat-Kannaradēvam
kanda []
11
12 13
14 du kan-nudiyadu baly-kü]
15 dadu chittam Paramgană.
16 putrakana || [||] Bhārata17 dol-ridan-Indrano]-r-
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18 sana-[ja]pan-enipa Pā
19 ndyana [kula]mam bērinde
20 kilta [Chōllana bēram
vaniteyarkkagalum bama
kandum nöda
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21 bēri[ndeki]ltan-Aneve
22 dengar [3] [Solade para-va
23 nitege [ka]p-sōladu mo
1 Ep. Ind., Vol. V, pp. 151 ff.
Mys. 4. R. for 1921, pp. 17 ff.
Ep. Ind., Vol. V, p. 172 Rice held that Marasimha commenced to rule in A.D. 961 (Ooorg Ins p. 12, table).
Read prithvi.
Read Akalavarshath.
Though the upper letter in chehe of this word looks like bh, it is apparent from the subscrips thas was the letter intended as in the Abakir inscription see also Ind. Ant. Vul. XXXII, p. 316,f. n. 13.
