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from the victorious Kumāradvipa, to the inhabitants and officials of twelve villages (dvadabagrāmyah). The order announces that a gift of certain lands, tank, garden and house-site was made by the king to a Brāhinana, named Hastyarya, of the Härita götra. The gift was made with the object of securing the welfare or final beatitude (ni[b]dreyas-artthan) of Nāgapadda, Malladatta, Achala and the king himself. The inscription is dated the 10th day of the 7th fortnight.of Hē[manta*] in the 29th year, apparently of the king's reign. This mode of recording dates in seasons and fortnights is not usually met with in inscriptions of a period later than the 6th century. Consequently this record may be placed in the 6th century, and palaeography does not militate against this view. In the Aihole inscription of Pulikēsin II, his father Kirtivarman I is stated to have been the night of doom to the Nalas, Mauryas and Kadambas'' Pulikobin II himself claims a decisive victory over the Mauryas in the Konkapas. Evidently it is to this Maurya family that Anirjitavarman belonged.
on dato (Ancient India, No. 8,
1 An Eastern Chalukya inscription of a later period (7th century) olting p. 49) is the only one of its kind that I know of, . Above, Vol. VI, p. 4, text-line 4,
Ibid., p. 6, text-line 10,
