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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1882.
of the plates are a good deal corroded here translation of this grant in his Mysore Inscripand there; but for the most part the inscrip- tions, p. lvii, note., states that Ramėśvaration is perfectly legible throughout. The ring tirtha is an island in the Tungabhadra, in a on which the plates are strung is about " bend of the river a few miles to the north of, thic': and 21 in diameter; it had been cut i.e. below, the junction of the Tunga and the before the plates came into my hands. The Bhadrâ; in his map of ancient Maisar, he places seal on the ring is circular, about it in it where the modern maps place Anavaree,' diameter; and it has, in relief on a coun- | in Lat. 14° 4' N., Long. 75° 49' E. He further tersunk surface, a much worn representa- gives the purport of the inscription as being tion of the god Śiva, sitting with his knees that Govinda III. was "receiving from (?) bent so that the soles of his feet touch each Vattiga, then ruler of Kanchi, certain tribute other, and facing to the full front, and holding collected for him by the Chalakya king, Kirta serpent in each hand, with apparently their tivarma III., who, as I gather, may have married hoods expanded above his shoulders. The the Ratta king's daughter," and to whom this image, in fact, is very similar to that on the tribute had been assigned, perhaps as her dowry, seal of the grant of Dantidurga or Dantivarma with authority to her husband to collect it." II, No. CXXI. at p. 108 above. The language This, however, is hardly in accordance with of the present inscription is Old-Canarese. the text.
It is an inscription of Gô vinda III., or The present expedition of Gôvinda III. Gôyinda, as the name is here corruptly written; to the Tungabhadrâ, which resulted in his conand it is dated Saka 726 for 725 (A. D. 803-4), quest for the second time of the Palla vas, the Subhanu samvatsara. It gives us the name who had already been subjugated once by his of G Amanda bbe as the wife of Govinda III. father Dhruva, is recorded also in his two subAnd the object of it is to record that, -having sequent inscriptions,--the Waņi-Dindori plates, conquered Dantiga, the king of Kanchi dated Saka 730 for 728, the Vyaya sasivatsara, or Kanchi, who must therefore have been of the next that I shall edit; and the Radhanpur the Palla va dynasty-Govinda III., on his plates, dated Saka 730 for 729, the Sarvajit way to levy tribute, came to a tirtha or sacred sasivatsara, already edited by Dr. Bühler. In place called Râmēsvara, on the bank of the respect of his relations with the kings of the Tungabhadra, and there, having had some south, the same two inscriptions also tell us sport with wild boars, and being consequently that he released from captivity the Ganga pleased with the place, conferred upon a Goravaking, who had been imprisoned by his father, or priest of the Kuruba caste, named Sivadhâri, but shortly had to again reduce him to suba grant which had been previously given to jection and imprison him. And the second of the god Parameśvara or Siva by a certain king them speaks of the lord of Vengi, i. e. his Kirttivarma.
contemporary of the Eastern Chalu kya The Kirttivarma who is mentioned in this family, in such a way as to show that he must inscription is evidently either the Western have been a feudatory of Govinda III. ; it states Chalukya king Kirttivarma II., for that, at the command of Govinda, the lord of whom we have the dates of Saka 669 and 677, Vengi came and worked for him like a servant, or his cousin Kirttivarma III. Mr. Rice, and built for him the high walls of a town or who has published a transcription and partial fortress.
Transcription.
First plate. [] Svasti
Saka-ntipa-kål-Atfta-samvatsarangal=eļntr-i(i)rppatt-AraneIl ya Subhanu embha (mb) varshada Vaisa (6A) kha-masa-krishna-pa['] ksha-pañichamô(mi)-Brihaspati(ti)våram=ågi(gi)
Svastissti)
Prabhu[] tavarsha-érfprithu(thi)vivallabha-maharajadhi(dhi)rája-pa[ra]m
Mr. Rioo translates the inscriptiou so as to make 11 This must apparently be Vijayaditya, also called Gmundabbe the daughter of Govinda III. But she was NarendramrigarAja, whose reign was from about Saka his wife.
710 to about Saka 750.
