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Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s1: Plate XXIV

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s1

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Plate XXIV

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¹ This document was first described by Sir W. Elliot (*in Madras Journal*, xi., pp., 302-6) who then showed that it belongs to a dynasty that preceded the Eastern or Kaliṅga Cālukyas. According to that account the plates were "found in the *kol* or (read *koleru*) lake near Masulipatam, some years ago (*i. e.* prior to 1840) and had been laid aside as utterly unintelligible." A facsimile and transcript in Nāgarī are promised in this article, but I have not been able to find them in any copy of the *Madras Journal*, accessible to me. I have used an impression made on China paper, which I got from a man formerly in Sir W. Elliot's employ; of the original plates I can learn nothing. It has been lately published by Mr. Fleet in the *Indian Antiquary*, vol. v. p. 177.

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This grant may be taken as an exact copy of the forms given in the law-books.

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1*b. line* 1. svasti. vijayaVeṅgīpurād. bhagavacCitrarathasvāmipādānuddhyāto Bappabha-
2. ṭṭāraka²pādabhakta[ḥ] paramabhāgavataç Çālaṅkāyano³ mahārājā Ca-
2. 1. ṇḍavarmmaṇas sūnur jyeṣṭho mahārājaçrīVijayanandivarmmā Kuḍuhāravishaye
2. Viḍenūrpallikā⁴grāme munyaḍasahitān⁵ grāmy(ā)n samājnāpayati: asti
2*b.* — 1. asmābhir asmatkulagotradharmmaya(ça)*h* kānti⁶kīrttipravarddhanāya eteshā(*m*)

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² ? Some local deity.

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³ Cfr. gaṇa 'rājanyādi' (P. iv. 2, 53); it is included among the Bhṛigu gotras of Āçvalāyana, and was of course that of the family-priest.

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⁴ In modern Telugu *pallikā* is *palliya*.

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⁵ On munyaḍa (?) see Mr. Fleet's remarks; he would correct to amātyādi. May it not be some Telugu title of a head-man or chief?

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⁶ Read (as Mr. Fleet satisfactorily amends it) yaçaḥkānti. *Indian Antiquary*, vol. v., p. 69.

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2. kaçrīvarāgrāhārvāstavyānā(*m*) nānāgotracaraṇasvāddhyāyānām
3. — 1. saptapañcāçaduttaraçatānām brāhmaṇānām esha grāmaḥ prattaḥ. tad avetya
2. deçādhipatyāyuktakavallabharājapurushādibhis sarvaparihāraiḥ
3*b*. — 1. pariharttavyo raxitavyaç ca. pravarddhamānavijayarājyasaptamasa(*m*)vatsara-
2. sya Paushyamāsakrishṇapaxasyā 'shṭamyām paṭṭikā¹dattā. || tatrā 'jñāptiḥ
4. — 1. mūlakarabhojakā² || “bahubhir vvasudhā dattā bahubhiç cā 'nupālitā
2. yasya yasya yadā bhūm(*i*)ḥ tasya tasya tadā phalam ||
3. shashṭivarshasahasrāṇi svargge k(*r*)īḍati bhūmida āxeptā cā 'bhimantā ca tāny
eva na(ra)ke vase(t).”

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¹ Paṭṭikā for patrikā, and the construction asti....prattaḥ point to Prakrit influences.

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² The grant is therefore of the royal dues (legally one-sixth) from the village. The village itself (or the proprietary right to the ground) could not be given by Hindu Law as it belongs to the occupants; all the king could give is his right to certain shares of the produce etc. (See the discussion which settles this point in Mīmāmsasūtra, vi. 7, 2.) This phrase occurs in the oldest grants (as above) and also in the Cālukya and Cālukya-Coḷa grants.

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