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date hitherto available for Krishna II was A.D. 888. The present records thus furnish the earliest date for this monarch leaving only a gap of six years after the last known year of Amoghavarsha.
Of the places mentioned Saraţavura is the modern Soraţür where inscription A was found. Nivudi has probably to be identified with Nigadi, a village about 8 miles south-west of Dharwar.
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0 Svasti Śrī[ll *] Akalavarishā(varsha) prithuvi(prithvi)-vällava(vallabha)
mārajādi(mahārājādhi)rā[ja] 2 paramēsvarā(a) Srimat-Kannara-bhat[a]rara rājy-abhivri(vpi)ddhi saluttum=i3 re Saka-npipa-kal-atita-sarbā(va)tsarangal-entu-nur-aydä(ayda)ne[ya*]
Sõ(so)4 bhakṣit embha(ba) sambha(va)tsaram pra[va']rttise Indāpāyyām(Indapayyam)nādān
alutt-i8 re Purigoro-näda Saraţavurad=ā(alyvadimbarum=ildu nādayise Māna6 sigara-Chidā(da)ņņa[m*] gösā7 sam=iļdo[m] 8 stan-ābhivriddhi[l*] 9 nama[h]
1 Svasty-Akalavarsha Sri-prithuvi(prithvi)-vallabha mahārājādhiraja paramēsvara
bhatārar[a] 2 [88]kala-rājy-abhivriddhige aluttum=ire Sa(Sa)ka-varshamren tu-nura 3 aydaneya varsham pravarttisutt-ire [Kadalekadhi]pāņņā Ereyammam Nivudi
turugo!ol=kā. 4 di sattom. I kalla Pulide-gāvunda[na*) tamma Gufeyamma nirisido ll
No. 36.-THE JESAR PLATES OF SILADITYA III-THE YEAR 347.
BY THE LATE MR. R. D. BANERJI, M.A. These plates were discovered, along with the plates of Sīlāditya IV of the year 387, at Jesar, a village in the Bhāvnagar State of Käthiāwār. They were sent for inspection to Mr. (now Dr.) D. R. Bhandarkar, then Superintendent of the Western Circle of the Archeological Survey in 1915 and his summary of the inscription will be found in his Annual Report for the year.'
The record is incised on two plates, of copper of equal size, the rims of which are slightly raised. There are two holes in each plate, through one of which is passed a long thick wire of copper. The ends of the wire are joined together by the seal of the Maitrakas of Valabhi bearing the bull couchant and the ancient legend Sri-Bhatakkah. The second ring is missing. The plates measure 15' x 11t' and are now preserved in the Barton Museum, Bhāvnagar. As the impressions taken in Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar's time were not legible, these plates were obtained on loan
1 Above, Vol. XIII, p. 182.
This letter a which is much smaller than the most was omitted first and inaertod later on. .P.R.A. 8. W.C., 1916-18, p. 66, para, 10,
