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136 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[Vol. XXXI 24 ta(s=ta)aya tasya tada phalam [l*J Má bhūd=aphala-banka van(vah) para-datt-šti părthiva”
(vāḥ) [l*) sva-dānāt=phala26 m-anantyam para-dan-anupalanam ||
C.-Grant No.3 This sett consists of three plates without raised rims. Each plate is 6.9" long and 3-4 broad. They are strung together on a circular ring 2.5' in diameter. The ends of the ring are soldored at the bottom of a circular soal 1.5' in diameter. The seal after cleaning shows only a spiral sign on its face.
The script is the early Southern Class commonly styled Telugu-Kandada. The letters resemble those found in the other grants of Jayasimha I. They are very indifferently written and therefore the form of individual lotters is not always the same. Initial ai occurs in line 3 in aidaryugina. The shape of the letter wyd in brahmany8 in line 10 is interesting. Finalt ooours in line 1 and final m in line 20. The medial & sign in rà in parihårena (line 18) and haréta (line 24) is peonliar. It is not a simple horizontal stroke to the left. The language of the inscription is Sanskrit. It is in prose with the exception of the two imprecatory verses at the end. The terms kandikattu, kadakattu and avakaffu popurring in the description of the boundaries aro'unintelligible.
This inscription also belongs to the same king, Jayanishha I of the Eastern Chalukya family. The record does not furnish new facts. The royal prasasti and the details of the grant are similar to those of the previous record. The king issued this grant from Asanapura. Addressing the elders and officers of the Plakki vishaya and the ryots of the village of Kunduru. the king granted the village of Kudivada to the same dono68, Svämiyabas and Vishnuyasas of the Vatsa gotra, separating it from the boundary of Kundūru and constituting it into an agrahāra with all the usual immunities. The boundaries of the newly constituted agraham are given. They are as follows: on the east the boundary of the village of Kunduru ; on the south the sea; on the west the tank named Golāva as well as the Nagyvula tank, Kandikattu and Kadakattu and on the north Avakattu. The ajfiapts is Bhimatarman, already known from the previous charter.
These three insoriptions thus register grants referring to one and the same village of Kudivada (Gudivada). In fact, the order of these inscriptions, if I understand them aright. should be thus : Grant No. 2, by which the village of Gudivada comes into being as an independent agrahāra, should be the first one. Then comes Grant No. 1 which says that the king granted the western portion of the village of Adivass along with some land detached from the extent of the village of Gudivada, constituting the whole into an agrahara, to the Brahmana brothers, Vinayasarman and Vishnubarman of the Maudgalya göra. To compensate this loss to the donees the king seems to have granted them again by grant No. 3 thirtytwo mivartanas of land, separating it again from the village of Kundūru, as stated in grant No. 2.
[See A. R. Bp., 1946-48, No. 8 of App. A.-Ed.]
As the forms of many lotters like bh in line 1, ai in line 8, 6 in lino 10, show later forms, the writing seems to belong to a later period. The soal boars only a spiral symbol and the village granted is the same as in the previous charter. This record appears to be a later modified copy of No. 2, in the text of which the boundaries of the agraira are added while a statement regarding the allotmont of a share of the agradara to the donoo's sister's nou, as found in No. 2, is omitted. No. 8 thus appears to have been forged by the hoirs of the donoes of No. 2 with a view to depriving the sucoomors of the done's sister's son of the share in question.-Ed.)
[This argument is unconvinolag. As shown above (p. 129, note 8 ; p. 133, notes 2 and 4 ; abovo, noto 2). the agraira villages gruuted - well u the donors in the first two grants are different and the third grint appears to be later modified copy of the second-Ed.)
