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Introduction
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List of Plates
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Additions and Corrections
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Altekar, A. S
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Bhattasali, N. K
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Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari
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Chakravarti, S. N
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Chhabra, B. CH
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Das Gupta
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Desai, P. B
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Gai, G. S
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Garde, M. B
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Ghoshal, R. K
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Gupte, Y. R
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Kedar Nath Sastri
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Khare, G. H
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Krishnamacharlu, C. R
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Konow, Sten
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Lakshminarayan Rao, N
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Majumdar, R. C
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Master, Alfred
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Mirashi, V. V
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Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R
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Narasimhaswami, H. K
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Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M
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Panchamukhi, R. S
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Pandeya, L. P
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Raghavan, V
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Ramadas, G
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Sircar, Dines Chandra
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Somasekhara Sarma
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Subrahmanya Aiyar
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Vats, Madho Sarup
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Venkataramayya, M
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Venkatasubba Ayyar
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Vaidyanathan, K. S
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Vogel, J. Ph
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Index.- By M. Venkataramayya
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Other
South-Indian Inscriptions
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Volume 10
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Volume 11
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Volume 12
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Volume 16
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Volume 22
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Tiruvarur
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Darasuram
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Konerirajapuram
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Annual Reports 1935-1944
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Annual Reports 1945- 1947
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
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Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1
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Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
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Epigraphica Indica
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
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Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 7
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 27
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 30
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 32
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Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
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Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2
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Vākāṭakas Volume 5
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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Archaeological
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Archaeological-Survey
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Pudukkottai
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
No. 5 ] BADAGANGA ROCK INSCRIPTION OF BHUTIVARMAN
the throne in 220 G. E. With these plausible surmises, let us now approach the figures indicating
the date on the Baḍagaṅgā inscription, which cannot but be in the Gupta era. Fortunately, these
figures are still very clear on the rock and came out perfectly on all the estampages. The unit is
easily recognised as 4. Of the figure for 200, we have only one instance in the Bengal plates, viz.,
the one in the fifth plate from Damodarpur. Our figure resembles this figure for 200, as well as
other figures for this umber culled from inscriptions on Bühler’s Chart IX, but does not exactly
tally. But the figure for 200 on the same chart culled from the Cambridge University Manuscript
No. 1049, dated 857 A.D., tallies almost exactly with our figure for 200 and thus lands us on sure
ground. Thus we can read the date as 200 ..4.
In reading the middle figure, we have to choose from the figures for 10, 20, 30, or latest 40.
The East Indian figures for 10 and 20 are very distinctive and uniform, and have no resemblance to
our figure. Our choice lies, therefore, between 30 and 40. Unfortunately very few instances of 30 or
40 have hitherto been met with in East Indian inscriptions, and Bühler’s and Bendall’s charts are
our main guides for these two figures. It will be seen that a letter resembling modern la is the
basis of the figure for 30, and a letter resembling modern pa is the basis of the figure for 40. We
can thus decide that our figure is 30 and not 40. Thus the reading 234 G. E. is complete.
Below are given the text and translation of the inscription.
TEXT
1 Svasti Śrī-paramadaivata-paramabhāgavata-mahārājā-
2 dhirāj-āśvamēdhayājin[āṁ]Śrī-Bhūtivarmma[dēva]-pādānāṁ [Saṁ]
3 200 30 4 mā vishayāmātya-[Āryya]guṇasya
4 idaṁ āśramaṁ
TRANSLATION
Peace ! The (month of) Mā[gha]; the year 200 and 30 and 4 of the illustrious Mahārājādhirāja Bhūtivarmmadēva, the devout worshipper of the Dēvas, the devout worshipper of
the Lord (Vishṇu), the performer of the Aśvamēdha sacrifice. This is the religious retreat of
Āryyaguṇa, Minister for State.
Note on the reading :─ The proper left portion of the inscription has been worn rather smooth
by heat, moisture and rain of about fourteen centuries, and, in the matter of decipherment, even
a personal examination improved the reading very little.
In the second line, of the word yājināṁ, the long vowel and the anusvāra at the end are hardly
distinguishable. The expression Bhūtivarmmadēvapādānāṁ reads like Bhūtivarmmaṇyapādānāṁ.
Probably, the abrasions in the stone are responsible for this curious misguidance. The last letter
saṁ in this line has also to be put in practically conjecturally.
In the third line, the figures for the date are absolutely clear. I have already given my reasons for reading the middle digit as 30. But it is only fair to record here that Dr. D.C. Sircar of
Calcutta, as well as Rao Bahadur K.N. Dikshit, and Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, are inclined to take the
figure as 40. I, however, still think that a la is the basis for the present figure, which should therefore be read 30. This should be regarded as conclusive in view of the fact that the figure of 30
in the expression Kārtti di 30, occurring at the end of the Soro Plate A (above, Vol. XXIII, p. 202
and plate), where it cannot be regarded as 40. Is very similar to the one found in the present
inscription.
The name of the vishayāmātya may be Ādyaguṇa and not Āryyaguṇa, Dr. D.C. Sircar of
Calcutta suggests Śarmmaguṇa but the first letter is clearly ā. Fortunately, there is no doubt
about the name of the emperor, the mention of his having performed an Aśvamēdha sacrifice and
the date. Everything else is of minor importance.
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