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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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The five plates measure 91' 41'xt each in dimensions, and are held together by a circular ring 31 in diameter. The two ends of the ring are soldered into the back of an oval seal bearing in relief a boar to the left. Au the sides of the plates, except the outer ones of the first and the fifth, are engraved. The rims of the plates being raised, the writing is well preserved. The plates together with the ring and the seal weigh 219 tolas.
The characters of this record closely resemble those of the Vakkalēri' and Kendūr' plates of Chalukya Kirttivarman II, with a very few variations. The medial short and long i are scarcely differentiated. I have, therefore, transcribed them either way according to requirements. Owing to the carelessness of the engraver, ka and ha have been in a few places written as ra and pa respectively and vice versd.
About orthography one fact quite apparent is the careless engraving of the record, owing to which & very large number of mistakes have crept in. Many of them have been corrected either in the text or in the foot-notes. But some may have escaped my attention. Ri has been generally substituted for ri but in priy-atmaja (1.25) we find exactly the opposite case. B has been substituted for v in svayambara (1. 38) and sambatsarë (1. 56). Upadhmaniya has been used once only in paraih palayamanair (1. 31). In some cases ri has been written in place of preceding a consonant as in Harisha (1. 12), chikitishu (1. 68) and varisha (1. 72), while in varusha (1.55) ru has been written for r. Tha has been used for fa in kanthaka (1. 26), and ghathāpathana (1. 28). In svanudātum (1.70), the anusvāra has been replaced by n.
The language of the inscription is Sanskrit, and the composition is in prose, excepting the few verses at the beginning and the end.
The record refers itself to the reign of Chalukya Vikramaditya II and gives his genealogy thus :- In the Chalukya dynasty was born Polaksin (I); his son Kirttivarman (I); his son Satyasraya (Pulakosin II); his son Vikramaditya (I); his son Vinayaditya ; his son Vijayaditya and his son Vikramaditya (II). All the information about these rulers contained in this grant is already known to us from the Vakkalēri and Kêndūr plates of Kirttiverman II ; for, the text of this portion of our grant is practically identical with that of the latter two. It is unnecessary, therefore, to deal with it here in detail. Some points, however, deserve mention. The Conjeeveram inscription of Vikramāditya II which is undated undoubtedly proves his entry into that city; but it can be shown that the event must have happened before at least the date of the record under publication. viz., be Winter Solstice in Saka 664 oxpired. As the Vakkalēri and the Kēndūr plates supply no more information about this king than what is contained in the present record, it must be taken that all the exploits of Vikramaditya recorded in them were accomplished before the date of this inscription. In one of the Pattadakal inscriptions it is stated that Vikramaditya II conquered Kanchi thrice. But the above three grants nowhere mention this fact.
King Vikramaditya II, on the occasion of the Winter Solutioe falling in his oighth regnal year and after 664 Saka yoars had elapsed, while his victorious camp was at Adityavāda, at the request of Rashtrakata Govindarlija, the son of Sivarkja, who is otherwise unknown, granted the village Naravana, together with Chindramada, lying by the seashore of the Chiprerulana vishaya and bounded on four sides hy the river Sonnē, the village Ambada, eto.. to Brāhmaṇas of various gotras weH-versed in the Vedas and Vēdāngas. They were Döggulisvämin, the son of Durgganāgasvämin, Nagadi-Dikshita, the son of Donasvimin, both of the Kausika gotra, Kontala-Närāyana, Nannasvāmin and Dhana jayaduggu........................ The
* Above, Vol. V, p. 202.
Ibid, Vol. IX, p. 200. . Ibid, Vol. DI, p. 360. • , Vol XP. 10, No. 100,
