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the epigraph since the dooument may have been written sometime after the grant had been made on the day of the Uttarāyaṇa-sankranti or a few days before to keep the document ready for the occasion of the grant to be made on the day of the sankranti. If therefore Paramēśvaravarman I ascended the throne about 670 A.D., he could not have ended his rule much earlier than 689 A.D. Similarly, the Rēyuru grant was issued on the occasion of a lunar eclipse on the full-moon day of Vaišākha in the twelfth regnal year of Narasimhavarman II and, about the approximate period of this king's rule, lunar eclipse occurred on the full-moon of Vaisakha only in the years 701, 702, 711 and 720 A.D. suggesting that his first regnal year roughly corresponded to 690, 691, 700 or. 709 A.D.
We have seen that the nineteenth regnal year of Paramośvaravarman I could not have fallen earlier than 687 A.D. and later than April 693 A.D. During this entire period, Pausha-eudi 13 fell on a Sunday only in the year 687 A.D., although the Uttarayana-sankranti occurred on the previous day. The date corresponds to the 22nd of December 687 A.D., while the sankranti took place on the 21st of the same month. Thus the 19th regnal year of Paramēśvaravarman I fell between December 686 and December 688 A. D. He therefore ascended the throne between December 668 and December 669 A. D. His first reynal year should probably be regarded as having corresponded to 669-70 A. D. His son and successor Narasimhavarman II seems to have ascended the throne about 690-91 or 700 A. D.
The following geographical names are mentioned in the inscription : Kanchipura whenoe the charter was issued ; Kubunüru-grāma which was the subject of the grant; Pumi-rashtra in which the gift village was situated; the Muvuvadya(?)-märga and the Musuna-nadl near the gift village ; Urputuru-grāma where the donee's family lived ; and Nandakurra which seems to have been the capital of the chief who executed the grant. Of these, Kāñchipura, the capital of the Pallavas, is well-known, while Nandakurra has been tentatively identified with modern Nandavaram in the Udayagiri Taluk of the Nellore District. The Musuna-nadi seems to be no other than the modern Mugi which runs along the boundary line between the Kandukuru Taluk in Nellore and the Ongole Taluk in Guntur and falls in the Bay of Bengal to the north of the mouth of the Pālēru. Since the village of Kubuņūru stood on its southern bank, it seems to have been situated in the present Podili-Kandukuru region of Nellore. The Pūmi rashtra, to which it belonged, appears to have comprised parts of the Nellore District lying to the south of the ancient Munda-rāshțra. Urputūru is apparently the present village of Uppuțūcu in the Bapatla Taluk of the Guntur District.
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First Plate 1 [Sva]sti [l*] (jita]øm Bhagavatá [i*) srimat-Kāñchipurāt=Pallavānām Bhāradvāja
sagotrāņām yathāvad-32 [hri]t-āśva[mējødh-ady-anēka-kratu-yājinām s va-vi[r*lyy-ādhigata-rājyasya pratāp-opan
ata-rāja3 ma]ndalasya madhyama-lõka-pălasya lokapālānām=pañchavrasya (fri)-Ma4 [hɔ]ndravarmmanah=prapautraḥ bahu-samara-labdha-yasah-prakākas[yla vidhi5 [vi]hita-sarvva-ma[r*lyyädasya vasudhātal-aika-virasya Sri-Narasiham'varmmapah 6 (paultrah diva-dvija-guru-vriddh-apachāyino vivriddha-vinayasy=&uěka-go
1 Above, Vol. XXIX, p. 92. . From a set of photographs.
* These letters are hidden under the ring in the photograph, while the first letter of the lines is either wholly or partially out off. Similar is the case with the other inscribed faces of the plates.
Road in hao. The ansvara has been incised away from its proper place.
