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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA GOKARNA PLATES OF KADAMBA KAMADEVA : SAKA 1177 P. B. DESAI, OOTACAMUND This set of copper plates was secured for study during my annual tour in the Bombay Karnatak, in February 1940, through a resident of the place, at Gōkarṇa, North Kanara. It is noticed in the Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for the year 1939-40. I am editing it here for the first time with the kind permission of the Government Epigraphist for India. The set consists of four copper-plates, each measuring 8½″ by 5¼″, with their rims slightly raised to preserve the writing. All the plates are engraved on both the sides. The writing is in a fair state of preservation except in a few places ; e.g., ll. 7-9. Ll. 44-45, 54-60 and 67-69 are palimpsest. The plates are numbered at the left top of the ring-hole on the reverse of each plate. They are held together by a circular copper ring measuring about 2½″ in diameter, which passes through a ring-hole about ½″ in diameter near the left margin. The ends of the ring are soldered into the bottom of an oval seal measuring about 2½″ in length. The seal bears in relief the figure of a couchant bull with a chain and a bell round its neck, facing the proper left. There is no reference to this emblem in the text of the record. The Pallavas of Kāñchī had the figure of a couchant bull on the seals of their copper plates.[4] The Kaḷachuryas that ruled in Karṇāṭaka had the same emblem on the seals of their copper plates. It is referred to in their records as Suvarṇa-vṛishabha.[5] _______________________________________
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