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Index
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Introduction
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Contents
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List of Plates
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Additions and Corrections
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Images
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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
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Volume
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Volume
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Vol.
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Volume 9
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Volume 10
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Volume 11
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Volume 12
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Volume 13
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Volume
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Volume 15
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Volume 16
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Volume 17
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Volume 18
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Volume
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Volume
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Volume 22
Part 1
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Volume
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Part 2
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Volume
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Tiruvarur
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Darasuram
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Konerirajapuram
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Tanjavur |
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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
Links
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Archaeological-Survey
of India
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Pudukkottai
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
TEXT1
First Plate
Second Plate ; First Side
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[1] From the original plates.
[2] Expressed by a symbol.
[3] Read  .
[4] The daṇḍas are superfluous.
[5] The word chāṭa has been usually translated as ‘ irregular troops ’. But etymology would, I think, help
us in arriving at a better and more correct meaning of the term. Chāṭa, according to lexicographers, means ‘ a
rouge, cheat, swindler ’, etc. This, however, cannot be applied with any propriety to the military or police force,
constituting the ‘ irregular section ’. The word chhātra is substituted for chāṭa in some earlier inscriptions in
a similar context. For instance, the Rithpur plates of Queen Prabhāvati-Guptā has the term
abhaṭa-chhātra-prāvēśyaa (J. P. A. S. B., N. S., Vol. XX, p. 59, text l. 18). After addressing the bhaṭas and chhātras
among the royal officers, the Chammak copper plate record of the same king introduces the phrase a-bhaṭa-chchhātra-prāvēśyaḥ (C.I.I., Vol. III, No. 55, 11, 22 and 26). Thus we may be justified in equating chāṭa with chhātra.
The word chhātra seems to have been originally derived from the root chhad=conceal, hide. It would hence
mean ‘ one who is concealed or disguised ’, in other words ‘ a member of the secret service ’. If chāṭa is a variant
of chhātra, it would also mean the same. For a different view expressed by Prof. Vogel, see above, Vol. XXIV,
p. 134.
[6] The word chhātra seems to have been substituted here for the usual expression sabrahmachārin.
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