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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
AUGUST, 1879.
[") pumjame Clonta-tata(tk)kame vata-vrikshame kar-ggalla-sarade Mudugereya [°] pûrvva-sringha(ga)da pullattië(ye) Orekodina Hâdarivagila Kuppeya tri-sa[] ndhi dakshinam nódi vata-vrikshame Molapadië(ye) vata-vrikshame kadisige-moradiya so mêle sandA Pulpadie (ye) Bhagavatti(ti)-galle honneya-moradiya bennane sanda [9] pûrvvade kud-ittu pola T Tasya sâkshi Gamga-raja-kula-sakal-Asthayikka(ka)[") purushah Torenâ du-sa ............ yah [*] Dese-såkshi Perbakkavaṇamaruga
Third plate ; second side. [*] (reya") Sêmdrikagamje-nâņa [Nirgg]u[n]d[a]?[ll Sva]-dattam(ttâm) para-dattam(ttâm)
va yô barêti(ta) vasum["] [dharim shashti]-rvva(va)rsha-sahasrani vishtayam jayatêh(tê) krimiḥ || Kere kavile Vâra[*') ņâsiya sarvva-lingaman=aļida chitraka-Viśvakarmm-achariya(achåryyêņa) sâsanafnam) likhi[*] tam=idal* Translation.
| in many battles in which use was made) of Hail! Victory has been achieved by the elephants. holy one, Padmanabha, who resembles (in The gift of him whose name was Arivarma. the colour of his body) the sky when the clouds -When one hundred and sixty-nine years] have left it!
had expired in the Saka era, in the Prabhava A resplendent sun to irradiate the clear sky salavatsara,-& Bauddha disputant, named which is the glorious family of JAh nava; Vå dimada gajendral, in the pride of his possessed of (a reputation for strength and learning published a paper in the doorway of prowess acquired by cleaving asunder a great the palace of the city of) Talavana pura pillar of stone by a single stroke of his sword; to the effect that he was preeminent in logic decorated with ornaments which were the and grammar and all other kinds of knowledge. wounds sustained in massacring the forces of And when Madhavabhatta, the son of his pitiless enemies; belonging to the lineage Gô vindabhatta, of the Bhrigu gôtra, of the Kan vay anas;-(such was) the glori- having declared the meaning of that raper ous Koigan i varmà, the pious Great in detail, established the existence of the King, the supreme king.
living soul-while his opponent maintained His son (was) the glorious Madhava, the the non-existence of the living soul, and Great King, the supreme king, who was vanquished Vadimada gajendra with possessed of virtuous qualities that imitated the elephant-goad which was his theory,--the (those of his father, whose conduct was regu- king was pleased, and conferred on Madhelated by knowledge and modesty; who attained vabhatta the patta of a lion to the elephants the objects of sovereignty only by properly which are disputants,' and, -on Friday, the governing his subjects; who was a very touch- day of the new-moon of the month) Ph & lstono for testing) the gold which was learned guņa, under the Rêvati nakshatra, and in men and poets; who was skilled among those the Vriddhi yôgu, and (while the sun was) who pronounce and those who apply the in conjunction with the Bull,-gave him, free science of polity; and who was the promulgator from all opposing claims, and to continue as of a treatise on the law of adoption.
long as the moon and sun might last, the village His son' (was) the glorious Arivarmas, of Orekod u in the Maisa nad u Seventy. the Great King, the supreme king, --who was The boundaries of that village are :-On the possessed of the virtuous qualities of his father east, there is a heap of stones; looking towards and his father's father; and whose fame was the sonth (from which), there is a nimba-tree; flavopred with the waters of the four oceans, and a fig-tree; and the hill of the black stones; (the sovereignty of) which he had acquired and the village of) A dukungal; and the
10 Part of one letter, -da, tha, da, dha, pu, pha, ma, 13 Here, again, I supply the broken away letters from 1, or ha,-and three or four entire letters, are lost here, 1. 88 of the Merk Ars plates. the plate being broken away.
1. This is a mistake for Harivarma.' 1. This letter may be read as either vd, or ma; but it is
Sc.,' very elephant, infuriated with rut, of a dis
putant. plainly vd in 1. 82 of the Merkers plates,
10 This village probably took its name from being at the 11 These two letters are obliterated. I supply them foot of a hill, the summit (kød) of which was crooked of from 1. 32 of the Merk Arsa plates.
out of course (ore).
