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AUGUST, 1878.)
SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
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exemption (from taxation). Moreover, there was forwarded by Mr. Porter. The ring conare these verses for them :-There has not necting the plates had been cut before they been, and there shall not be, any gift better came into my hands; it is about thick, and than a gift of land; there has not been, and 3Y" in diameter. The seal is circular, about there shall not be, any sin worse than confiscat- | 18" in diameter, and, as in the preceding case, ing such a gift! Land has been given by has,--at the top, the moon; in the centre, the many, and has been continued in grant by motto Sri-Vishamasiddhi; and at the bottom, a many; he, who for the time being possesses lotus. The language, is Sanskrit. The chaland, enjoys the benefits of it!
racters are of the usual early Eastern Chalu. This charter is the writing of Vina ya ka, kya type. The Anusvára is written above the the son of Dirgh ôch âyi............vela y il. line,-except in vådánga, l. 17, and suvatsara, kan marakundi-Era, from Our own word 1. 20, where it is on the line from want of of mouth (given) in the second year of Our space in which to insert it above the line. augmenting reign, in the month Chaitra, The genealogy commences with Kirttivarin the bright fortnight, under the Magh â mâ I. It is another grant of Vishnuvarnakshatra, on Wednesday.
dhana II., and is dated in the fifth year of his No. XLIIL
reign. Here, again, the date is not referred This is another Eastern Chaluk ya copper to the Saka era. But, the statement, that the plate grant, from the original plates, which grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse belong to Sir Walter Elliot, and are marked of the sun, which occurred on the day of the as having been obtained from Mr. Porter. I new-moon of the month Phalguna, enables have no information as to where they were us to determine that the date of it is probably found.
Saka 581 (A.D. 659-60). The details of this The plates are about 6" long by 2 brood. calculation will be explained fully hereafter. They are numbered ; and, contrary to the usual This inscription gives the earliest instance rule, the writing commences on the first side that I have yet met with of the use of the epithet of the first plate. Two plates only are now samadhigata-pancha-mahásabda, and the only forthcoming; the rest of the grant has been lost, instance in which I have as yet found it applied and seems to have been already missing when it to a paramount sovereign.
Transcription.
First plate; first side. ['] Svasti Srimatan
sakala-bhuvana-saistůyamâna-Mânavya-sagôtrânań [*] Hâriti-putrâņam sapta-loka-måtribhir=mmatribhir=abhivarddhitanam
Kartti[] key-anugrah-åvåpta-kalya na-parampara(ra)nar
bhagavan-Narayana-prasad-asadita-varaha-lážchhan-átmîkrit-abesha-bhubhțitam
bhů-bhritâm=iv=achala-sthi [*] tinam abvamddh-avabhritha--snîn-úpanita-Kali-malanan Chalukyanam k ulam-a
First plate ; second side. [] lamkarshnôh(rishņoh) Sri Kirttivarmmanah pranaptá sakal-Avanipati-makuta-tata-ghatita['] maņi-mayúkha-puma-pi(pin)jam (ja)rita-charana-yugalasya
Sri Vishộuvarddhana
mahârâjasya [*] naptâ Sakti-traya-samAsâdit-Asosha-bhu-mandal-Adhipateh
sva-guna[°] nurakta-prakriti-sampâdita-sarvva-sampadah Sri-Jayasi(sim)ha-Vallabha-va(ma)harajasy[*] priya-bhrâtur=anô"oka-yuddha-labdha-vijay-alamkrita-sarirasy=Endra-bhattârakasya
Second plate; first side. u priya-tanayah samadhigata-pañcha-mahasabdah sakal-Ondar-iva sakala-kal-adhi["] shthànô Vishnur=iva Sri-nivå sah sriman=Vishnuvarddhana-mahârâjah Gudrahara
Tirst
13 See notes 2 and 7.
13 Here, and in aindvdsydyam, 1. 20, the mark on the apper line is probably, not the Anusvara, but the final form of m.
** Ya was first engraved, and then the stroke denoting the & was partially erased.
15 In the same way, al was ongraved and corrected into 3a.
This letter, n, was first omitted, and then inserted above the line, with a cross-mark to indicate the omission.
11 Between the vi and the slot is a faint sha, where sln was commenced and then partially erased through want of room because of the hole for the ring.
