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No. 22).
DIVE AGAR MARATHI COPPER CHARTER; SAKA 982.
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1 ppangugalil āņu yi= 2 kkollaiyum ni[k]. 3 ki ninra kottadil 4 udaiyār Sittavadam-u5 daiya Nāyaṇār[k*]ku=ttiru6 ppalji-eluchchi-ttiruv-a7 mudukku oru-pangum Ma8 laiyāņi-madattil e9 kadaņdi-sanyāsigaļukku 10 bhikshaikkum anushtā(na)11 m panni yirukku[m*] Malaiy[ā*] 12 na-brāmmaņaļku jivanat13 tukkum=äga mukkūrum=[a] 14 ga ippaņi ivvür nārp[a]15 (1) ellaikkum=utpada ma16 [nai]=v(y)=ellām irrai na17 ļil Sõmidēvaraśaru18 m Gange Sāganiyāru
Second Side
19 m enakku Sandi[rādi*]tta-varai 20 eppērpatta (prūpti]21 gaļum=uţpada=kkuduttu= 22 ttä(dhā)rā-pūrvvam paņnina23 padiyē nānum ivar24 gaļukku=ttū(dha)rā-pūrvva[m*) pan25 ni=kkuuttēn Kala26 di Vāśudēva Nayaka27 nēn [*] i-ttanmattuk28 ku ārēnum alivu ninai29 ttār=und=āgil Ga30 ngai Gödāvi(va)ri na31 du āyiran-go-bir[a]32 manarai=kkonrā33 n pukka lõkam 34 puguvān [l*] Srí māhe35 svaram viļanga [l*] 36 nanr=āga [l*]
No. 22-DIVE AGAR MARATHI COPPER CHARTER; SAKA 982.
(1 Plate)
MORESHWAR G. DIKSHIT, POONA This single sheet of a copper plate was obtained by me in the village Divē Agar, in the Janjira area of the Bombay State, through the courtesy of Shri. S. N. Joshi-Patwardhan, a resident of the village, in May 1949. It is reported to have been found by a farmer while digging for earth in his wādi. The plate measures about 6 inches broad and 37 inches high, and has a small hole in the middle of the margin on its proper left, through which a copper ring is passed. The ring is quite plain and does not bear traces of a seal. It is possible that a blank sheet of copper, now missing, was strung on this ring which held them both together, though the inscription on the extant plate is complete in itself.
The inscription consists of 9 lines of writing in characters of the Nagari alphabet, current in the 11th century. Influence of the southern alphabet may be traced in the forms of a few letters, e.g., n in l. 3. We may also note the southern forms of the numerals 9 and 7 in lines 1 and 6.
The language of the inscription is early Marāthi. As regards orthography there are several points which attract our attention. Though sa and sa are generally very well distinguishorl throughout the record, the occasional use of sa for sa is to be noted as in wat in line 1 and 1 in line 3. The prishtha-mātrā is used to denote medial ai in several places; but not so in medial e, except in line 9 where it is used thrice. The abbreviations are indicated by a small circle and a
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