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Vinayachandra, the son of Bhānuchandra, who has been taken by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar! to be the namesake of the writer of the three records of Indravarman-Rajasimba men. tioned above. Proceeding from this conjecture, Dr. Bhandarkar suggests that the word read by Mr. Rajaguru as denoting twenty-eight may actually be read as eighty-eight, thus satisfactorily adjusting the date of the plate within the reign of Indravarman of the present record. The reading of the date on this plate has also been doubted by Dr. R. C. Majumdar.' The reproduction of the plate in question accompanying Mr. Rajaguru's paper is unfortunately too obscure to admit of verification on this point. What little however remains does not seem to support the reading ashhabitas. ..... asya as suggested by Dr. Bhandarkar.
of the localities mentioned, Kalinganagara has been voriously identified with modern Kalinga patams at the mouth of the Vamsadhară river or with Mukhalingam near Chicacole. The Kröshtukavarttani (vishayot) is mentioned in a number of early and later Ganga records. It has been identified by Dr. E. Hultzsch® with modern Chicacole. A district (bhoga) called Dantava rāgu (really vāgū) is mentioned in the Bșihatpröshtha grant of Umavarman (above, Vol. XII. p. 5. 1. 5). But I am unable to identify both this village and that of Haribhata.
Vinayachandra, the writer of the present record, was also responsible for preparing the draft of the two inscriptions of Hastivarman and two of Indravarmano mentioned above.
The biruda Rajasimha applied to Indravarman in the present record, also occurs in the Narasingapalli and Urlam plates of Hastivarman and also in the Achyutapuram and Parlā-Kimēdi plates of Indravarman.
The date of our inscription can be ascertained only very approximately. If, as is held by Prof. R. Subba Rao, the epoch of the Ganga era began from 494 A.D., the date of our record would fall at 494 +-87=581 A.D. Without caring however to arrive at any one particular year, we would not be far wrong if we placed our record in the period 570-625 A.D.
1 A List of Inscriptions of Northern India, p. 288, f. n. 1. ? Ibid., no. 2047.
Above, Vol. XXIII, p. 63, f. n. 1. *J. A. H. R. S., Vol. III, p. 55.
• In any case, it begins with asha-. Of the two letters following, the second appears to be a ligature most probably with a guttural nasal (n); while the preceding one has a clear medial i sign. The arguments advanced by Mr. G. Ramdas (J. 4. H. R. 8., Vol. III, pp. 82-83) for doubting the genuineness of this stray plate do not appear to be conclusive. His reading of the date sitya-ashtha(sic)viti also is not borne out by the plate; for, the conjunct (read by Mr. Rajaguru as sya being a possessive case-ending) coming immediately after samvatsara cannot possibly be broken up into si and tya.
• Ind. 49., Vol XVI, p. 132.
* E.g., Urlam pls. (Yr. $0) of Hastivarman, Above, Vol. XVII, pp. 332 ff.; Chicacole pls. (Yr. 183) of Devendravarman, Above, Vol. III, pp. 131 ff.; Parla-Kimedi pls. (Yr. 204) of Anantavarman, Ind. An.. Vol. XVIII, pp. 144 ff., etc.
. Above, Vol. XVII, pp. 332 ff.
. He was also probably the same as the writer and engraver of the stray Tirlingi grant (J. 4. H. R. 8., Vol. III, pp. 54 ff.) the donor of which must remain, pending the discovery of the remaining plates of the set, a mysterious personality. Prof. R. Subba Rao however suggests (J. A. H. R. S., Vol. VI, p. 71) that the donor may be identified with Mitravarman, father of Indradhiraja, mentioned in the Godavart plates of Prithivimala (J. B. B. R. A. S., Vol. XVI, pp. 116 ff. and pls.). This Indradhiraja bas further been held by Dr. Bhandarkar (List, p. 266, No. 1904 and f. n. 1) to be identical with Indravarma of the Jirjingi pls. of the Ganga Year 39 (J. A. H. R. S., Vol. IST, PP. 51 ff.).
10 J. A. H. R S., Vol. V, pp. 267-76.
