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Index
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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 11
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Volume 12
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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
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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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
SAKRAI STONE INSCRIPTION ; V. S. 699
the two dissimilar signs for 9 are likewise used is afforded by the Kāman stone inscription.1
Prof. V. V. Mirashi, the editor of this last record, has noticed the peculiarity and cited some more
analogous instances.2
In this way, we now arrive at the reading : Saṁvat 699 dvir-Āshāḍha śu li. . . V. S. 699 is
equal to A. D. 642-3, and that would be quite compatible with the palaeographical date. Our
inscription would thus be later by about a decade than the Madhuban plate and earlier by about
a decade than the Kudārkoṭ inscription.3
Now, what remains to be verified is whether there was an intercalary Āshāḍha in V.S. 699.
A reference to the tables given for such verifications in Diwan Bahadur L.D. Swamikannu Pillai’s
Indian Ephemeris4 will show that A. D. 643 did have an intercalary Āshāḍha. A slight hitch may
be felt inasmuch as A.D. 643 works out to be V.S. 700, whereas our inscription has V.S. 699. This
can be overcome by the assumption, a very natural one in the present case, that the year referred
to in inscription is Kārttikādi. This means that the Āshāḍha of the Kārttikādi V.S. 699 is the
same as the Āshāḍha of the Chaitrādi V.S. 700. And that squares with the given date.
It may now be said that our inscription furnishes instances of the numerals 6 and 9, and that
for the latter it gives two dissimilar signs. It may further be pointed out that our inscription is
among the earliest to adopt the more advanced system of decimal notation. The older inscriptions,
it is well known, have the primitive mode of employing distinct symbols for units, tens, hundreds,
etc.
TEXT5
[Metres : v. 1 Pṛithvī ;v. 2 Sragdharā ; v. 3 Mālinī ; vv. 4, 5 Śārdūla-
vikrīḍita ; vv. 6, 8-14 Anushṭubh ; v. 7 Upajāti of Śālinī & Vaiśvadēvī.]
1 Ōm6 Raṇad-radana7-dāraṇa-druta-Sumē8ru-rēṇ-ūdbhaṭaṁ sugandhi-madirā-mada-pramudit-
āli-jhaṅkāritaṁ(tam) | anēka-raṇa-dundubhi-dhvani-vibhinna-gaṇḍa-sthalaṁ Mahā-
gaṇapatēr=mmukhaṁ diśatu bhūri-bhadrāṇi vaḥ || [1 ||*] Nṛityantyās=s-āṅgahāraṁ
charaṇa-bhara-parikshōbhita-kshmā-talāyāh=prabhrashṭ-ēndu-prabhāyāṁ niśi visṛita-
nakh-ōdyōta-9
2 bhinn-āndhakārāḥ | yē līl-ōdvēllit-āgrā vidadhati vitat-āmbhōja-pūjā iv=āśās=tē hastās=
saṁpadaṁ vō dadatu vidalita-dvēshiṇaś=Chaṇḍikāyāḥ || [2 ||*] Madhu-mada-janu-
dṛishṭiḥ spashṭa-nīl-ōtpal-ābhō mukuṭa-maṇi-mayūkhai raṁji(rañji)taḥ pīta-vāsā[ḥ*] |
jaladhara iva vidyuch-chhākra-chāp-ānuviddhō bhavatu Dhanada-
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[1] Above, Vol. XXIV, plate facing p. 334, text l.22. Another date, namely the year 229, given in l. 13 of this inscription, provides a clearer instance of the sign for 9 under discussion.
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