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No. 25.)
TANDIKONDA GRANT OF AMMARAJA II.
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19 tishthaḥ patishyati [14*] bhūmi-dan-āpaharana-pratipälana-guna-dosa(sha)-vyañjakaḥ
årshäh slökā bhavanti [*] Shashtim varsha-sahasrani 20 svarggē nandati bhūmidaḥ [*] ākshēptā ch=ānumantă cha täny=&va
narakē vasēt [115*] Asphòțayanti pitaraḥ pravalganti piţāmahāḥ [1]
bhūmidor 21 sman(t)-kulē jātaḥ sa naḥ santārayishyati (116*] Yat-kiñchin(t)=kurută
pāpam naro lõbha-samā(ma)nvitaḥ [*] api go-charmma-mättrēņa bhūmi
dānēna sudhyati [117*] Pū22 ryva-dattām dvijätibhyo yat[n]ād=raksha Yudhishthira [1] bhūmiin bhūmi
[ma*]tām brēshtha dānāch=chhrēyo=nupālanam [118*) Iyam rāja-bataireddatta
diyati cha punaḥ 23 punaḥ [*] yasya yasya yadā bhūmis-tasya tasya tadã phalam [89] Tadit
taranga-va(ba)hulam briyam matvā cha marttyánām [l] na dharmma
sthitaya24 s=sadbhiḥ(dbhir=)yuktā lõke vilõpitum [l/10*] kulya 8 dūtakaḥ śubhadatto
likhitam sāndhivigrahika-Bhögachandrēna 26 tāpitāṁ pustapāla-Jayadāsēna ( * ) samvvad(sarkivat). 3 śráva di 20 7
No. 25.-TANDIKONDA GRANT OF AMMARAJA II.
BY BHAVARAJ V. KRISHNARAO, B.A., B.L., RAJAHMUNDRY. This interesting inscription is engraved on & set of tour copper-platos, which was secured by the Rev. Dr. Isac Cannaday in 1915, while he was at Sattenapalli, Gunţür District, and forwarded to the Assistant Archæological Superintendent for Epigraphy, Southern Circle, Madras, in the early part of the same year. It is marked as C. P. No. 11 of 1914-15. From the incomplete nature of the text, the writing appears to have continued on the fifth plate which, however, along with the seal and the ring that held these plates together, was lost and never afterwarde traced. Dr. Cannaday informs me in the course of his letters, that while he was on tour on Mission work in Sattenapalli taluk during the cold season of 1914-15 and camping at a place called Oruvakallu, he was told by the local catechist that one Chilaka Satyanandam, a Christian of Mādiga extraction, had found, while digging for old earth (pāti-mannu) with which to construct house walls, a set of copper plates and that he was considerably disturbed over that matter. It appears that the fifth plate and perhaps the seal and the ring, too, were melted down by that man; and Dr. Cannaday who learnt everything about the discovery, allayed the fears of the man and secured the remaining plates for the Department. The place of the discovery of those plates is near the huge granite boulder or rock which is nearly 250 feet high and which is situated to the west of the village Oruvakallu. The plates were found in a good state of preservation; and I now edit the inscription on them from the excellent estampages kindly sent to me by Dr. N. P. Chakravarti at my request.
Each of these four plates measures roughly 11 inches by 5 inches. Except for the first plats which contains writing on the inner side alone the remaining three plates are engraved on both
1 Madras Epigraphical Report, 1914-15, pp. 90 f.
• In the rock at Oruvakallu there is a cave and in it is goddess called Gangā. A large village s ms to bave fourished round the rock at one time and there are ruins and mounds soattered round the locality.
