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eg., Dantidurgga, 1. 7 and pād-anuddhyāta, 1. 29. (2) A class nasal is only rarely used for anusvära, e.g., afrānta, 1. 10; pafcha, 1. 36, etc. (3) V is used for throughout, cf. la for bala, 1. 8; -vadhaḥ for Bädhäh, l. 11, etc. (4) Ri is wrongly incised fot ni in Kanak-addri, 1.6, kriy-disarppan., 1. 36, eto. (5) Anusvāra is wrongly changed to n in -ansa-pithaḥ, 1.5 and sice verse in mdhallar-ādim, l. 31, etc. (6) The palatal & and the lingual sh are wrongly incised for the dental in vijaya-skandhaga(v)r., 1. 42 and Chhathikumarashya, 1. 57 respectively.
Besides these, there are several mistakes due to the carelessness of the writer of the engraver, e.g., the use of the unaspiratet for the aspirate tha in shitya, 1. 43, the omission of visarga be. fores in sarhyukta syöd, I. 47, the use of anusvāra to denote length in maran-devya, 1. 54 and itáridra, l. 55. In the formal part of the grant there are some wrong sandhis, e.g., prakahepaniyð ā-chandr-ārk-, 1. 40; parvanyiudaka, 1. 42, etc.
The plates were issued by the Rashtrakata king Govinda m from his victorious capital at Mayurakhandi on the occasion of a tulā-purusha gift at the time of & solar eclipse in the expired Saka year seven hundred and twenty-two. The date cannot be verified for want of the necessary details. There was only one solar eclipse in the expired Saka year 722, viz., that which occurred on the New Moon day of the month of Ashādha, the corresponding Christian date being Thursday, 25th June, A.D. 800. This date falls in the reign of Govinda III, who ruled from circa A.D. 794 to A.D. 814.
Like the earlier Paithan plates the present inscription incorporates many old verses descriptive of the ancestors of Govinda III, which are known from the older redunts of Dantidur Krishna I and Dhruva. The eulogistic part of the present plates is, however, shorter than that of the Paithan plates, as eleven verses, miz., 3, 4, 17, 20-22, 20-27, which occur in the lattor are not included here.
The genealogy of Govinda III is given here as in his other plates, commencing from Govinda I, viz., Govinda (I); his son Kakka (1); his son Indra (II); his son Dantidurga, who defeated the innumerable forces of the Karnātas which were clever in defeating the lord of Kanchi, the king of Kerala, the Chola, the Pandya, the illustrious Harsha and Vajrata and who attained the position of Räjädhiraja Paramēsvara by easily defeating Vallabha; (his uncle) Krishna-Subhaturga-Akālavarsha, the son of Kakka I, who defeated Rahappa and assumed the titles Rajadhirāja and Paramèsvara ; his son, Govinda (IT); his younger brother Dhruva; his son Govinds (IIT), who was crowned king by his father in supersession of his other sons. Govinda HI is here said to have assumed the Birudas of Prithivi-vallabha, Prabhutavatsha and Srirattadha. There is nothing new in the eutogistic verses, which, as stated abovo, are copied from earlier records. As in the Paithan plates there is here no reference to any of Govinda's campaigns in the north or the south.
The object of the present inscription is to record the grant of the village Athanavathu on the occasion of a solar eclipse to the following thirteen Brāhmaṇas (1) Ruddappa Dikoita, son of Gövvaika-bhatta of Vasishtha-gotra, who was a teligions student of the Rigvēde, and resident of Věyaghana ; (2) Durgappa of Kramaitta-götra who was a rosident of Talvitaks; (3) Dēvadatta of Häridra-götra'; (4) Nārāyana of Kutimäsha (Kulmåsha !) -getra; 5) Matigappa ;
Govinda IIT seems to have weighed himself against gold before making the gift; of. The Caun bay Plates of Govinda IV, 11. 46-47 and 50-53, above, Vol. VII, p. 40. A similar expression tula purusha-sthite occurs in the Sämängad plates of Dantidurga which Fleet was inclined to take man astronomical expression (Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, p. 114), but the expression probably qualifies the word may' which seems to have been omitted inadvertently.
+ Above, Vol. III, p. 1'. * The götras of now. 8, 4, 6-8, and 10-12, which were at tirat omitted, are supplied in L. 55-57.
This name appears wrongly as Närapa in 1. 56.
