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No. 381
NALAJANAMPADU OLD-TELUGU INSCRIPTION
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putra, Dēvaputra(title of the Kushāņa kings), bhatta putra! (found in names of donees and engravers in epigraphs) and Rājaputra (official).
In the light of the foregoing remarks we have to conclude that the engraver of the record was Boppadēva, son of Paddõpādhyāyapatra and not geando: of Paddlõpādhyāya.
No. 38–NALAJANAMPADU OLD-TELUGU INSCRIPTION
(1 Plate)
ALFRED MASTER, LONDON I an indebted to the courtesy of the Director General of Archaeology, Rao Bahadur K. N Dikshit, for excellent squeezes of this inscription which is transcribed in modern Telugu characters in Nellore Inscriptions, p. 676. A plate is given therein, but contains several obscurities. The inscription is generally considered to be later than the Addanki Inscription of 844-5 A. C.. but 1 had reason to suspect that it was, on the contrary, much older.
The inscription is engraved on the two sides of a stone. The village in a field of which the stone lies is situated about lat. 15° 05' long. 79° 30' in the heart of the Telugu-speaking area as shown in the Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IV, Map of Dravidian Languages. The stone hay a bull at the head. Above it is a linga on a pedestel, on the left of whieh is a water-pot and crescent moon and on the right a partly defaced mark, which may represent the trifūla. The characters are of the Western Chalukya type and resemble those of the Badāmi Inscriptions of Vijayāditya. (696-733 A. C.). As regards orthography the following may be noted : a is occasionally written for ā; it is often impossible to distinguish d and !.
TEXT
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1 Svasti [1]*] Bha- - 2 gavad-Arhata-(pa)3 rama-bhattārakasya pā4 dānudhyāta parama-ma5 hēsvara Para[mējávara Pa 6 llavāditya sri-B[a]di7 rājula andu palle
8 yari koduku Bădi[rā)9 j=envānru rājam[änam)10 bu mūnfu vuţtu āşla11 pattu kshētra[m]bu pasri]. 12 si palleyāri-[dā)13 yana[m]bunāku ichiele
14 dini rakshinchinavāni[ki] Back
15 adug-adug= 16 aśvamēdha[m]bună 17 palamb=agu 18 dinilachchina19 văniki ekalu 20 Srīparvvatambu
1 Above, Vol. XIX, pp. 5, 6, 66, 96, 97.
Ibid., App. No. 249; Vol. XXII, p. 158. • Ibid., Vol. XIX, pp. 44, 135, 269. *Above, Vol. XIX, p. 274. . Ind. Ant., Vol. X, p. 103.
21 lachchina pāpam22 b=agu Vă[chcho].. 23 lāla koduku 24 Pallavācha25 rjyasya liki26 tam [II*]
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