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No. 22.] THE MELPATTI INSCRIPTION OF VIJAYA-KAMPAVIKRAMAVARMAN. 143
3 dāna-guņa-sa[m*]pad-adhāra?-bhți(bhūta-Agidēvi-vara-lavdha(bdha)-prasāda4 Tailapa-vams(6)-odbhava-mahāvijaya-räja-pravarddhamā6 na-Rāņaka-sri-Rāmadēva-pādāḥ kusalinaḥ [l*) yāvacha(ch=cha)6 ndr-ärka-mēdinio vartatē tāvata putra-pautra-samtatinām
Second Plate; First Side. 7 sa-jala-sthala-chatu[h*]-si(si)m-āvachhi(chchhi)nanna)-a-chatta-bhatta pravēsa? Rēva8 naņa)-[nā ?]yakasya Upalabadā-grāmõ=yar prasida(ar)krito 18. 9 smābhi[Bm*] tảmyra(mra sẵ(84)sanaholi*] Agoi | na vens-kha[y]ẽ khi[n]ẽ 10 yē kē chēta rājā bhavisāti [1*] tasa pādē la11 [gnoj='ham mama data m=Õpaharēta II Agumēka pada12 m=ēkam yo [ha]rēta vasundharam [l*] divan varsa-sahasrā[n]
Second Plate ; Second Side. 13 [yā]yatē vrahmarakhasa ICID)0 Sva-datam para-datam=vā jo harēta va14 sundhari [*] sashthim=varsha-sahasrāņi narakāyā jāyāta ksi15 mi KID pu(pūrva-koņa ulumvara-gā[a ?Ji-11gandhish *] utatta)ra16 disa(si) palatsal-sandhi[h 1*] paschima-köņaņē) [s]oma-rukha-18 17 sadhdhi(ndhi)[h *] dakhi(kshi)ņa-kora(nē) pāchalisandhish 1*] Vaga-suta 1
Pakha 18 [1 !Jitilajasi-sandhish /*] Taula-gvarna(rņa)karēnā(na) li(li)khitam ta.
Third plate. 19 mvra(mra)sā (sā)sanaḥ(nam) [II*]
No. 22.-THE MELPATTI INSCRIPTION OF VIJAYA-KAMPAVIKRAMAVARMAN.
BY V. VENKATASUBBA AIYAR, B.A., MADRAS. This inscription15 is engraved on a hero-stone set up in a field to the north of the railway sta. tion at Mālpatti in the Gudiyattam taluk of the North Arcot District. Beneath the record is cut
1 The anusvára is indioated by a mere dot which is to be seen below me of mata in the previous line. * There appears to be a superfluous vertical stroke after dha. • The absence of sandhi here is ungrammatical. • The singular here is ungrammatical. . Above te & superscript seems to have been first engraved and then erased. • Read tavat. * Read a-châta-bhafa-pravēšyo. . Perhaps we have to read - Sasa nena.
Here follow the verses. Their text, which is highly corrupt in the inscription, is given without any emendations, as they are quite well-known.
10 The scribe seems to have confused two different verses, vie., Advamëdha, etc., and Suvarnam-kam, eto.. cf. above Vol. II, p. 310.
1 What is meant is perhaps adumbura-gadi. Qadi seems to be a vernacular term. Cf. above Vol. XXI. p. 41, text l. 46.
11 Read plaksha13 Read -vriksha14 Probably påfali- is to be read. 15 No. 172 of 1921 of the Madras Epigraphical Collection.
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