Epigraphia Indica Vol 28

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
(VOL. XXVII 3 Haraba inscription of the reign of Lanavarman ; Vikrama Samvat 611 (Vol. XIV). 4 Nalanda copper-piate of Devapaladeva (Vol. XVII). 5 Brahmi inscription on a Woodon Pillar from Kirari (Vol. XVIII). 6 Barah copper-plato of Bhojadeva; Vikrama Samvat 893 (Vol. XIX). 7 Nalanda stone inscription of the reign of Yasovarmadova (Vol. XX). 8 Clay seals of Nalanda (Vol. XXI).
He also contributed five items to the Memoirs of the Archäological Survey of India, vis. : 1 Some recently added sculptures in the Provincial Museum, Lucknow. 3 Origin and Cult of Tan. 3 Baghela Dynasty of Rows. 4 Bhasa and the authorship of the thirtoon Trivandrum play. 8 Nalanda and its epigraphical material.
Deeply and widely learned in Sanskrit, painstaking and conscientious in rosearch, urbane in inners, in his death Indology has lost an erudito soholar in various fields.
RAO BAHADUR C. R. KRISHNAMACHARLU Born on the 1st of July 1888, of a Srivaishnava family, in the village of Gangavaram in the Nellore Taluk of the Nellore District, Mr. C. R. Krishnamacharlu matriculated in his early teens from the V. R. High School, Nelloro, and joined the Christian College at Madras for his collegiate courses. Having finished his F. A. in that College, he took his University degree from the Pachchayappa's College, Madras, and started his career as a teacher in the M. 8. Lower Secondary School, Nellore. He later joined the Nellore Collectorate. After a brief term of service there. an opportunity presented itself for him to join the Epigraphical Department. He took his early training in the field of epigraphy and worked in close collaboration with the lato Rao Babadur H. Krishna Sastri. Ho was promoted to the post of Assistant Superintendent for Epigraphy in 1925, became the Superintendent in 1931 and took charge of the office at Madras in December of the same year. He became the Government Epigraphist for India in 1942, on the transfer of the office of the Superintendent for Epigraphy to Ootacamund and its subsequent unalgamation with the office of the Government Epigraphist for India. He died on the 31st of August, 1947
Mr. Krishnamacharlu was a sound scholar in Sanskrit and Tolugu and an expert epigraphist in South Indian languages. The Annual Reports on South Indian Epigraphy that appeared under his name from 1931 onwards bear ample proof of his remarkable capacity to organise the staff in collecting and presenting the inexhaustiblo epigraphical material of South India for the benefit of the research scholars. The numerous copper-plate charters, including the Pallava grants which form landmarks in the Pallava history, and of which the discovery goes solely to his credit, show the flair he had for collecting such valuable documents. Among his works may be mentioned The Kannada Inscriptions of Kopbal and other Memoirs for the Hyderabad Archaeological Seriou. The Subject Index to the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy, A List of Inscriplions copied by the Office of the Superintendent for Epigraphy, Madras, and some learned articles in the Epigraphia Indica. He had a great aptitude for archaeological exploration and had an anerring instinct for locating pre-historic sites. During his last days, after his retirement, he had prepared a list of pre-historic sites in South India. In his death Indian epigraphy bas sustained various lom indeed.