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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. . [VOL. XXXIV 23 halbya)pa-götral Vachhyāyana-Naidhruva-pravara. Yajūrvēdāchard26 na Kanva(ava)-Sākh-adhyāyina(në) Bhata(tta)-pū(pu)tra-Dövabarma[ne] Paüma-sū27 ta' Dhanaśarma-naptrē grām-ārdha[b* ) arusa[h 1Sāvathi-vinirgata' Ya28 magarta-mandala-vāsta vya Vachhya-gotra' pañch-arsha-prava29 rā[ya*] Yajūrvēdācharaņa Kanva(nva)-sākh-adhyāyina(nā) Bhata(tta)-pū(pu) 30 tra-Vāšudēva' Llallada-sūta 10 Dhaļākā-naptrē ām(azn)a[b*) cha31 turtha[b*) mala[m *) Bhutatta)-pū(pu)tra-Väsu(su)dēva-auta-Ramadēva 11 32 au(am)śa[i*) chaturtha[h*) māls[m *] třin-odaka-rupya-pla chatvāris 33 ankö ru-pa 4 tāmvra-säshanikfitya" pradatö(ttö)=[smā)34 bhi[l*) yāva[ch*J-chandr-särka)-tārakä a-chāța-bhata-pravēsa(saḥ 1) Sva35 dätāts para-datamväl yo harētista) Vasva(su)ndhari[m [*] sa vishth(s)36 yän krimi[r*j-bhūtvä pitļibhi[b*) saba pachyatē [l*) iti [l*]
3. Asiatic Society's Plate
This is a single plate inscribed on both sides and measuring 6 inches in height and 5 inches in breadth. There is an elliptical seal of bronze affixed to a projection in the top side. In the middle of the counter-sunk surface of the seal, there is a legend in one line reading sri-Gayādatungasya. Above this, there is the representation of the moon and the sun in the form of a crescent with a round mark above it. Beneath the legend is the representation of a standing bull facing a tree to its left.
In all, there are 39 lines of writing in the inscription, 20 on the first side and 19 on the second. In respect of palaeography, language, orthography and style, the inscription closely resembles the Talcher plate, No. 2. As a matter of fact, with negligible variations, lines 1-18 of the present record, preceding the delineation of the grant proper, are the same as lines 1-21 of the other grant, both the texts being no doubt prepared from the same draft. It is interesting to note that most of the errors are common to both the epigraphs.
1 Read gūtraya.
* Read Kabyap-Avatsära-Naidhruva-pravariya. Avatsara was sometimes written in Orissan records as Acichhyāyana (cf. above, Vol. XXVIII, p. 111). Cf. also Kashapa-gotra Vachhära-Naidhrupa-prac ra (Vagu , op. cit., Appendix, p. 156, text line 10).
* Read Yajurvēda-charanaya. . Read sutaya or better Padma-sutaya. . Read gataya or better Srävasti-vinirgataya. • Read vastavyāya. * Read Vatsya-gótraya.
Read Yajurvēda-charanaya.
Read Viaudēvaya. 10 Real sutaya or better Lallada-suliya. 11 Read dēvayo. 1* Pla is a contraction of pala. Better read rüpya-pala-chatushtayênd. 13 Read ri which is an abbreviation of rüpya. 14 Read tumra-sarunikritya. 15 Read datlan. 1. Roud dattām vă.
