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field of the measure of one hundred nivartanas presented by him to the Royal Asiatic Society. by the royal measure, situated close to the In the genealogy at Jour. Madr. Br. R. As. Soc., north of the Hingut i tank.
Vol. VII., p. 199, he gives Saka 514 as the In the village of Nandinige, in the east commencement of his reign. In describing the quarter, (there was given) a field of the measure grant, at id., p. 201, he writes, “It bears date of) forty nivartanas by the royal measure, the thirty-second [year] of his reign, Saka 530; between the boundary of the village of) Bara- and his accession is thus fixed as having occurred vulika and the road to the village of) in [Saka] 515.” The first part of this statement Śripara.
is owing to some confusion on the part of his In the village of Siripatti, in the west Pandit in interpreting the date. In a footnote to quarter, (there was given a field of the measure the latter passage, he speaks of it again, and as
f) forty nivartanas by the royal measure, being dated "in Saka 530, on the eighth day to the south of the road to (the village of) of the sixteenth royal victorious year." Dr. Sripura.
Burnell, again, has given the first side of this In the village of Arjuna v ad a, in the west grant as Plate xxii. in his South Indian Paleoquarter, (there was given) a field (of the measure graphy, and, in transcribing it, at p. 87, has of) fifty nivartanas by the royal measure, to the entered the date as A.D. 608, which would be north of the road to the village of Sripura. Saka 530. The real date, as will be seen from
He declares the names of the villages.--The the facsimile and transcription, 11. 20-21, is first village is Rûvika, in the Kumba yija " when Saka 532 had expired, in the sixteenth Twelve. The second village is Så mariva da. year of his victorious reign." The third village is Lattiva da, in the I have obtained the original plates to edit Badhamale Twelve. The fourth village is from. Only two plates are forthcoming; the Pellida ka, in the Sripura Twelve. These third, probably the last, is missing. They are four villages (were given), together with their rather thick plates, not very regularly shaped, fields encompassed by the four boundaries, and and with several flaws in the copper; they with the udranga and the uparikara, and not measure about 12'' long by 57" broad. They to be entered by irregular or regular troops." have a peculiarly high and broad raised rim
This grant should be preserved as long as the to protect the writing. The ring connecting moon and the sun and the earth and the ocean them had been cut before it came into my hands; endure, just as if it were a grant made by them- it is about " thick, and 3}in diameter. selves, by future kings, desirous of acquiring The seal, which is very massive, is square,fame, whether they are of my lineage, or whether about 1' each way; it has the representation they are others, -bearing in mind that the of a boar facing to the proper left, with the sun charms of life and riches, &c. are as transient as and moon above it. Through some mistake the lightning! And it has been said by Manu the seal properly belonging to the grant of and others :-Land has been enjoyed by many Rajaraja II. has been printed off with the kings, commencing with Sagara; (&c.)! It is facsimile of these plates. A facsimile of the very easy to give one's own property, but the right seal will be supplied hereafter. preservation of the grant of) another is difficult, It is unnecessary to offer a full translation of (&c.)! He is born as a worm in ordure for the so inaccurate and mixed-up a document as this duration of sixty thousand years, (&c.)!
is; and there are, in fact, several passages in it No. XLV.
of which no sense can be made at all. I shall Sir Walter Elliot's date of Saka 514 (A.D. confine myself to giving an abstract of its con592-3) or 515 for the accession of the Western tents. Down to the commencement of the Chalukya king Vikramaditya I. is details of the alleged grant, in l. 20, it follows, based on a copper-plate grant, said to have been or rather tries to follow, the corresponding discovered in digging the foundations of the portion of the other copper-plate inscription of house a Kulkarni at Kurtaköti in the Vikramaditya I. already published, No. Gadag Taluka of the Dharwad District, and XXVIII. of this Series, at Vol. VI., p. 75. It
A chata.bhato-pravekyan. The meaning of this term is disputed. I follow the translation given by Dr. Bühler at Ind. Ant., Vol. VI., p.7i.
