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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA 6 runondāvilakk-onrukkum vaichcha. Parakēsari
kka[1]lā[1]=t tulai-nigai-sempop padinair-kalaðjum
sabhaiyar vasam eduttu=kkuduttēn Vikkirama[46]7 la-pPalla vadaraiyanên [l*) ivaridaiy-i=ppon kondu
i-vviļakksoprum chandrādityavat erippadây kal
vețţi=kkuduttom sa bhaiyom (I*Nakkan-Ku8 nranai-chchā[r*]tti [l*) i-dharmma[m*]
Panmāhēśvarar rakshai (Il*]
TRANSLATION
Lines 1 to 3. From Svasti śri to yāndu, the wording is the same as in the previous inscription.
Emadi Nakkaş-Kunran having met with a fatal accident, I, Nakkan-Vitankan alias Vikramaśāla-Pallavadaraiyan, one of the chiefs (araiyargal) (belonging to) the Perundanam of the king, endowed for his merit, fifteen kalañju as weighed by the weight) Parakësarikkal, of gold (coins bearing clear) impressions (and having proper) weight, for burning one perpetual lamp, till the moon and the sun endure, in the temple of Tiruvalañjuli-Paramēśvara at Virasangada-chaturvēdimangalam in Tenkarai-nādu. I, Vikramasola-Pallavadaraiyan, gave these gold (coins) to (the members of the assembly. Receiving these gold coins) from him and agreeing to burn a lamp, as long as the moon and the sun endure, for the merit of Nakkan-Kupran, we, (the members of) the assembly, had this (endowment) engraved on stone. This charity shall be under the protection of the assembly of the Panmähēsvaras.
No. 20-NINGONDI GRANT OF PRABHANJANAVARMAN
(1 Plate)
D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND
In or shortly before the year 1928, a set of three inscribed copper plates appears to have been discovered somewhere in the Parlakimedi Taluk of the Ganjam District, formerly in Madras but now in Orissa. The actual findspot of the inscription is unknown, nor have we any knowledge about the circumstances leading to its discovery. It seems, however, that soon after the discovery of the inscription, the seal-ring holding the three plates together was removed. Some time in the year 1928, information regarding the discovery of the epigraph reached the ears of the late Sri Lakshminarayan Harichandan Jagadeb, Raja of Tekkali. The late Raja Saheb, who used to take great interest in the study of epigraphic material, succeeded in tracing the three loose plates of the inscription in the village of Ādabā in the Parlakimedi Taluk and that of Kännäyāvalasā (also called Kānnēvalasā or Kännaivalasā) about nine miles from Tekkali, now in the Srikakulam District of the Andhra State. The first and third of the three plates were found in the possession of a goldsmith of Adabā, while the second of them in that of a gentleman of Kännäyävalasā, named Patnaikuni Gopalakrishna Varma. The Raja Saheb then studied the inscription with the help of the criginal plates as well as a few sets of impressions of the record, which had been prepared by him. The plates were returned to their owners.
