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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(August, 1881
broad, with a seal which bears the moon, the motto & seal which bears the usual Western Chalukya Sri-Sarvasiddhi, and the remains of apparently the boar; marked "No. 99; from T. D. C., Kurnool." name Jayasinha; from Pedda- Maddali in the - This is a Western Chalukya inscription of Vi. Nurzivid Division of the Krishna District. --This kramaditya I, son of Satyasraya I. or Pulikêýi II. is an Eastern Chalukya inscription of Jayasimha I. It is dated, in words, in the third year of his It is dated, in words, in the eighteenth year of reign, on the full-moon day on which the Sarihis reign, at the time of the equinox; the Saka gauna-mahdydtrd is held; the Saka year is not year is not given The order is issued from the given. It records a grant of some land at the city of Udayapura, and records a grant of the village village of Ratnagiri in the district of (P) Naļavadi. of Penukaparu or Penukapal, on the enst of the
No. 12. village of Mardavalli, in the district of Gudrabara. A set of three plates, ench about 9" long by No. 8.
3 broad at the ends and a little less in the A set of five plates, each about 11" long by middle, with a senl which bears the usual Western 5%" brond, with a seal which bears the usual Chalukya boar; marked "No. 100; from T.D.C., Eastern Chalnkya boar, the motto SH-Tribhu- Kurnool." - This is another Western Chalukya tanánkusa, the moon, the sun, a closed umbrella inscription of Vikramaditya I. It is dated, in or an elephant-gond, a chauri or an elephant-goad, words, in the tenth year of his reign, on the day and a floral device; from the Krishna District.- of the full moon of the month Asbadha; the Saka The whole inscription is very much corroded and year is not given. It records a grant of some very difficult to read. All that I can say at land at the village of Rattagiri, on the west bank present is that it is an Eastern Chalukya inscription of the river Andirika. The grant was made at the of Amma II. or Vijayaditya, and that it gives the request of king Divasakti, of the Sendraka family. usual details of the genealogy and the lengths of
No. 13. the reigns.
A set of three plates, each about 73" long by No. 9.
31" broad at the ends and a little less in the A set of five plates, each about 7" long by 2" middle, with a seal which bears the usual Western broad, with a seal the emblem on which is now Chalukya boar; marked "No. 98; from T. D. C., quite unrecognisable; marked "No. 78; from the Kurnool."--This is a spurious and very corrupt Gôdå vart Collector."-This is an inscription of Western Chalukya inscription of Vikramaditya I. king Prithivimala, the son of PrabhAkara. It is It is not dated. It purports to record a grant at dated, in both words and numerical symbols, in the villages of (?) Agunte and (?) Tebumlaüra. the twenty-fifth year of his reign, and, perhaps, Belgaum, 14th July 1861. J. F. FLEET, Bo.C.S. on the second day of the month Vaisakha; the Śaka year is not given. The order is issued from
AWÅNS AND JODS. the city of Kândàļi to the rishtrokutas of the Lient. Col. J. W. H. Johnstone reports that a district of Talupáka, and records a grant of the tribe of Jods is still located in that part of the village of Chūyipaka, in the middle of the four Panjab where Baber found them. “This tribe villages of Viļendi, Renguța, Kampårn, and is known to be a branch of the Janja â s, and Tnkura. The grant was made at the request of there is no difficulty on the subject of the Jods, king Indra, the conqueror of Indrabhattâraka. except that we now find the possessions of the No. 10.
Jods and Ja nj das with the A w â ns. The A set of three plates, each about 7" long by explanation I would give of the Awans' possession 2 broad at the ends and a little less in the of the country is this : They were resident on middle, with a seal which bears the usual Western both the branches of the Indus below the Salt Chalukya boar: marked "No. 95; from T. D. C., Range. Baber found the present country of the Kurnool." - This is a Western Chalukya inscrip- Marwatig in the Bannd district occupied by tion of Adityavarma, son of Satyasraya I. or IsAkhil Niazis. Subsequently a wave of Pulikest II. It is dated, in words, in the Srst irruption took place from the hills; the Isakhil year of his reign, on the day of the full-moon of Niazis were displaced by the present Marwatis; the month Karttika; the Saka year is not given. the former cjected the Awans from Is Akhil It records a grant of an allotment in the villages and Mian vali, and drove them into the hills. of Mundakallu and Palgire.
compelling them in turn to expel the Jods No. 11.
and Janja a s. The head man of Kalábâgh is A set of three plates, each about 8" long by still Mullah Muzaffar Khân, the Chief of the 3}" broad at the ends and 3 in the middle, with A wîns."
Leyden and Erskine's Memoirs of Baler, pp. 254, 259; and see Cunningham, Archirol. Sirv. Rep. vol. V.
pp. 80. 81.
Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1881, p. 50.
