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114 ह्मणी देवासि नित्य पंचामृत त्रिकाल धूपा115 रनि(ति) नैवेद्य दीपवर्ति पुष्पे ॥ उद्यच्चंद्रप्रसाद116 तिवलिततमस्तोमलव्ध (ब्ध)प्रकाशप्रस्फूर्ज117 केशवार्कप्रखरकरहताशेषदोर्गत्य118 जाड्यः । भूपालंकारहारस्त्रिजगति विदितः 119 शारदादर्पणो यष्वभाषाचक्रवर्ती कवि120 रकृत कृती शासनं म्हांइदेवः ॥ [२६॥*] उत्कं (क्तं) च 121 मचंद्रेणा' (ग) सामान्योयं धर्मसेतु पाणां काले 122 काले पालनीयो भवद्भिः । सर्वानेतान्भाविनः
रा.
123 पार्थिवेंद्रान्भूयो भूयो याचते रामचंद्रः ॥ [२७॥*] मं
124 गलं
महा श्री
श्री शुभं भवतु ।
श्री
No. 41-PONNUTURU PLATES OF GANGA SAMANTAVARMAN ; YEAR 64
(1 Plate)
M. SOMASEKHARA SARMA, GUNTUR This set of plates was discovered, some time in 1941, by a peasant in a field named 'Lingalameraka ', belonging to the village of Ponnuţūru on the northern bank of the river Vamsadhārā, about a mile from Somarājapuram in the Parlākimedi Estate, in the Pūtapatnam täluk of the Vizagapatam District. The farmer gave the set to his landlord, Sri Vanam Rāghavadāsanaidugåru, six months after its discovery. Subsequently, my friend, Sri Bhyri Appalaswaminaidugāru, took these plates on loan for a short period from Raghavadīsunaidugaru, und was kind enough to send them on to me for decipherment and publication.
This set consists of three plates, each measuring 4.6' long and 2-1" broad. They are strung on a copper ring 2-5' in diameter, which is passed through a hole, 35" in diameter, near the left end of the writing. The ring was not cut when the plates were sent to me. The ends of the ring were connected at the bottom of a small rectangular seal, l' long and #85' broad. On the countersunk rectangular face, measuring 65' by .45', of this seal, there is a figure of a couchant bull. facing proper right. The weight of the plates with the ring and the seal is 41 tolas.
The inscription is engraved on the inner side of the first plate and on both sides of the other two, the second side of the third plate bearing only one line. The first and second plates appear to have received some mild crowbar blows probably at the time of discovery, but they did not damage the plates, as they are fairly thick. However, some of the letters on the first and second plates are slightly damaged. The edges of the plates are not raised into rims, yet the writing, on the whole, is in a good state of preservation.
1 Tbo vertical stroke of nå might have been intended to serve as a dayda.
