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No. 18.)
CHURA GRANT OF PALLAVA VIJAYA-VISHNUGOPAVARMAN.
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näyaka, Dandapātika, Antaranga, Kumārāmātya, Uparika, Vishayapati, Grāmapati, Bhagin Bhögin and so forth, as well as others belonging to the class of chätas, bhatas and vallabhas in the district of Khalgukhanda (as follows)
(11. 12-18) "Be it known to you that this village of Svalpa-Võlura (or Svalpa-Vēluro), belonging to this district (of Khalgukhanda), (and) marked by (ite all the) four boundaries, has been donated by Us, after making it rent-free, with libations of water to Bhatta Nānatasarman of the Vâjasanēya charana, the Kāņva säkha, the Vatsa götra (and) the Bhrigu-Urva-Chyavana-Apnaväna-Jamadagni pravara, to last as long as the moon, the sun and the earth (endure); wherefore seeing the copper charter and out of respect for the dharma no one should become an obstacle (to it).
(II. 18-26) "Moreover, it is declared in the dharmaśāstras : [Here follow five of the customary verses.] ”
(11. 27-30) The Dütaka here is the illustrious Jahäsämanta Asokadēva. And (it) is written by Mahāsandhivigrahika Govindadēva (and) registered by the illustrions chief queen Vasabhattārikā. And (it) is engraved by the illustrious Mahindrabhima. The year 19, the 5th day of the bright fortnight of Phālguna.
No. 18.-CHURA GRANT OF PALLAVA VIJAYA-VISHNUGOPAVARMAN.
By C. R. KRISHNAMACHARLU, B.A., MADRAS. The grant edited below is engraved on three copper-plates strung on a circular ring bearing an oval seal. The plates were forwarded to the late Rao Babadur H. Krishna Sastri, Government Epigraphist for India, by J. N. Roy, Esq., I.C.S., Collector of Guntur, in 1913 and were reviewed in the Annual Report on Epigraphy, Madras, for the year 1913-14. Though a set of impressions was forwarded to Professor Hultzsch in October 1913, no article appears to have been contributed by him on the record. I am now editing it for the first time here from the original plates recently borrowed for the purpose and from the impressions preserved in my office.
The plates measure 6 inches by 24 inches each and the ring is 1 inch in thickness and 3 inches in diameter. The seal measures approximately 1 inch by 1 inch. The plates are very much worn out and slightly damaged also. Some holes are visible in the first and the third plates, while a portion in the top margin of the first plate is broken. The ring attached to the plates was not cut when they were first received for examination. The oval seal, into the bottom of which the ends of the ring are fixed, is slightly broken and on its face bears in relief the figure of a couchant bull facing the proper right. The first plate is engraved on one side only, while the second and the third plates are engraved on both the sides. The plates together with the ring and the seal weigh 31 tolas.
The Revenue Divisional Officer of Narasaraopet, who secured the plates at the first instance, reported that they were brought to him by Mulla Sheik Mirem of Narasaraopet who said that the plates were granted to his ancestor (!) one Mulla Abdul Fateh," as title-deed for some Jaghir in Daggupādu, a village of the Bapatla taluk". It is probable that the plates were originally discovered in Daggupādu itself or its vicinity, since Lagubamru (evidently modern Daggupācu) figures among the boundaries mentioned in the grant.
No. 3 of App. A; vide also page 6, para. 9 and page 82, para. I.
