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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1883.
[] kê pratishthita(tâh)
Aroļu vêdam båjisal-app-ant-akkarama[9] n-ayvadimbara
besadim Galigavere-Någan
dharey=u. [""]Ilo-inegan=negale baredan=tså(si)sanama (*] II Translation.
village-headman, and Achapayya, -having Ôm ! Hail! While the sovereignty of Aka- washed the feet of the Fifty Mahájanas) - Ja varshad é v a, the favourite of fortune and gave also twelve mattars of culturable land of the earth, the supreme king of great kings, for the matha and for education, a very marvel of refuge, a very hero against (L. 13.)-The fixed contribution on the infuriated elephants, he who is excellent ... culturable land (was that) they should supply, .....,' Sri-Kannara dê v a, was con- year by year, six drammas of charcoal. ..... tinuing with perpetual increase :
......" The Fifty (Mahajanas) shall protect (L. 3.)--While the body-guard® Sri-Rud (these grants). dapa yy a was governing (the city of) Sara (L. 15.)-Bhavanisetti gave to the god one ţa vura:
para on each péru. (L. 5.)-On Sunday, the full-moon day of (L. 16.)-He who continues this (grant) the month Margasira of the Virðdhikțit sari- without fail, shall have the reward of fashioning vatsara which was the eight hundred and the horns and hoofs of a thousand tawnyseventy-third (in) the centuries of years that coloured cows and presenting them to a thousand had elapsed from the time of the Sa ka king, Brahmans, (and) the reward of giving a thousand under the Rôhiņi nakshatra, (and) at the time meals to seven crores of ascetics at Varanasi of an eclipse of the moon :
or Prayage or Kurukshếtra! He who destroys (L. 6.)- Âchapayya, the Pergade of Rudda- this shall go to the world to which a man goes, payya, and Sami-Kalteyamma, the village-head- guilty of the five great sins, who destroys a man,-having washed the feet of the venerable
thousand tawny-coloured cows or a thousand Bhimarasi,- gave to the god a piece of garden
Brâhmans or seven crores of ascetics at land of the measure of) one thousand (betel nut)
sure of) one thousand (betel nut) Varanasi or Prayâge ! creepers.
(L. 23.)-He is born as a worm in ordure for (L. 8.)-(There was given by) the Fifty(Mahá- the duration of sixty thousand years, who conjanas), uniting together, at the time of the
fiscates land that has been given, whether by eclipse, a contribution of a young betel-leaf himself or by another! Those men who protect plant in the leaf.
land that has been given, whether by them(L.9.)- All the fixed contribution (was that) selves or by another, are established for sixty the Goravas should supply to the god, year thousand crores of years in the world of Rudra ! by year, thirty drammas of (?) charcoal, (being
(L. 27.)- At the command of the Fifty (Mathe amount) appointed (to be given to the king. hájanas), when they made the proclamation
(L. 10.)-When the Urodeya Pittayya made of the sentences « Who has the requisite) knowsupplication at their feet that this ordinance ledge?"-Gûligavere-Naga wrote this edict, to should not be broken, Sâmi-Kalteyamma, the be famous as long as the earth might last.
MISCELLANEA. A BUDDHIST TOPE IN THE PITTAPURAM , drawings. On reading there that all the relics ZAMIN DARI.
had been sent to the Central Museum at Madras, In the Indian Antiquary for February last I visited the Museum, and learned that while, as (vol. XII, p. 34), Sir Walter Elliot published a I had supposed, the stone caskets were there, notice of some finds of Buddhist caskets and other none of the other smaller relics aentioned could relics in the Pittäpuram Zamindari of the Gôd- be traced. These losses are very much to be vari District, Madras Presidency, with a plate of regretted. Of course Dr. Bidie is not respon
- The prása is violated here.
Ane seems to be connected with Anu, 'to stay, prop, support.'
1 Dhálake; meaning not known. 01 Angaraka, angaraksha.
os Or perhaps "on the occasion of every) oclipse."
+ The meaning of ivarin még alidu ko(K)al-ali (P) du is not apparent.
65 lit. "letters." -The meaning of the first part of this verse, however, is doubtful.
