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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA 19 नात्फलमानम्त्यं परदानानुपालने ॥ तथा च व्यासगीता[*] 20 श्लोका भवन्ति [*] बहुभिर्वसुधा बत्ता बहुभिश्चानुपालिता [*) 2l यस्य यस्य यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तवा फलं [u*] स्ववत्साम्पर
Third Plate ; First Side 22 [व]तां वा यत्नाद्रमा युधिष्ठिर [*] महीम्महीमतां श्रेष्ठ दाना23 च्छे योनुपालनं [*] षष्ठिम्बर्ष'सहनाणि मोदते दिवि भू24 मिवः [*] प्राक्षेप्ता चानुमन्ता. च ताम्येव नरके वसेत् [॥*) प्र. 25 वर्द्धमानविजयराज्यसंवत्सरस्य चतु[:*]षष्टिकस्य 26 पुष्यशुक्लपक्षत्रयोदशीदिन [n*] राजामाप्रबश्चादित्यवर्मा [॥*] 27 लिखितमुत्कीर्णञ्च भानुचन्द्रसूनना विनयचन्नणेति ॥ 28 गाङ्गान्वयाम्बरशरच्चन्द्रस्योर्जिततेजसः [*] शासनं
Third Plate ; Second Side 29 [शासिता] रा[तेः] श्रीमत्सामन्तवम[णः] । सं ६० ४ पुष्यबिन २० (८)
No. 42-TELUGU CHOLA RECORDS FROM ANANTAPUR AND CUDDAPAH
(2 plates) K. A. NILAKANTA SASTRI, MADRAS; AND M. VENKATARAMAYYA, OOTACAMUND Seven of the subjoined records, which come from the Cuddapah District, were first noticed in the early years of the last century by the Assistants of Col. Colin Mackenzie and described by them in their reports which are well-known as the Mackenzie Manuscripts Collection. The description of the contents of the inscriptions and their eye-copies found in these manuscripts revealed their importance for the history of the early Chola rulers of the Telugu country. Estampages of the inscriptions were secured by Mr. M. Venkataramayya in May 1937 when he was studying Telugu Chola history as a Research Scholar in the University of Madras, and they are now edited from those estampages. The rest, A, G, H, I and L, are edited from the estampages kindly supplied by Rao Bahadur C. R. Krishnamacharlu, late Government Epigraphist for India, Ootacamund. We are greatly obliged to Mr. N. Lakshminarayan Rao, Superintendent for Epigraphy, for his many useful suggestions and criticisms during the preparation of the article.
All the twelve records are in the early Telugu language and are engraved in the early TeluguKannada soript of the variety employed in the records of the Chalukyas of Badāmi. They are assignable on palaeographical and historical grounds, which we shall discuss presently, to differeut dutes from the second half of the 6th century to the end of the 8th century A. D. aud belong to different members of the dynasty of the Cholas of Rēnăndu.
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. This collection which contains over tive hundred manuscript books and palm leaf records is now being studied and calendered by the Department of Indian History in the University of Madras.
