Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.5

c5.5

⁴ Tablet II. “Evam api sāmantesu yathā Coḍa Pā(ṇ)ḍā Satiyaputo Ketalaputa etc.” The third word is read pačantesu by H. H. Wilson[^1*]), and taken to be for pratyanteshu a word which is not supported by authorities. As p and s, and č and m only differ in a very trifling degree, I venture to read sāmantesu which is far preferable. Prinsep suggested, and no doubt rightly, that Coḍa refers to the Cōḷa kingdom in S. India; Profr. H. H. Wilson, however, (pp. 14-15 of his article on the Inscriptions, separately printed from *J. R. As. S.* xii.) seems to think that these names refer to the North of India; but as the Cōḷa kingdom of the South was always famous, it does not appear necessary to assume another Cōḷa kingdom in the North as yet unknown. The alphabets of these inscriptions are so well known that it is unnecessary to discuss them or give them again here.