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but the "true box" so much that these plates can be shown as an excellent specimen of the "true box". Simhavarman and Vishṇugôpa have reigned between 475 and 500 A. D. and the Uruvupalli plates are probably dated 486 A. D. The plates of Mâṅgalûr and Pikira of the son of Vishṇugôpa are not box-headed; we may therefore say that from 500 A. D., the box method disappeared. The same phenomenon is to be seen in the Kadamba documents: the plates of Mṛigêśa and Mân-dhatṛi are box-headed, but those of Ravivarman are not. There is room to think that Mṛigêśa and Mândhâtṛi reigned from 475 to 500 A. D. and were contemporaries of Simhavarman and Vishṇugôpa; and that Ravivarman reigned after 500 A. D. when the box method has disappeared from the Deccan.