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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA REYURU GRANT OF PALLAVA NARASIMHAVARMAN ; YEAR 12 (1 Plate) P. B. DESAI, OOTACAMUND This set of copper plates deposited in the archives of the Rājā of Kāḷahasti in the Chittoor District, Madras State, was discovered by the late Śrī Vēṭūri Prabhākara Shastri who has edited the inscription on them in Telugu in the Journal of Śrī Veṅkaṭēśvara Oriental Institute, Tirupati.[5] In view of the importance of the epigraph which deserves fuller study, I edit it here with the kind permission of the Government Epigraphist for India.[6] The set consists of five plates held together by a ring with seal. The ring had been cut, apparently by the previous editor, when the plates were received for examination. The writing is engraved on one side of the first plate and both sides of the next two plates. The remaining two plates contain no writing. This is rather unusual ; and this unusual features may possibly be explained on the assumption that the framers of the document had originally kept these plates ready with the idea that the writing would extend over them, and that their expectation did not materialise. In the alternative, it may be surmised that the two spare plates are a later addition. It has, however, to be noted that traces of a few letters incised in late characters, forming two lines, can be detected on one of these spare sheets. Though the rims of the inscribed plates are not raised, the writing is in an excellent state of preservation. There are 25 lines of writing and these are distributed evenly on the five surfaces engraved.
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[1] The engraver began to incise the name of the village, but, as some mistakes crept in, gave it up leaving
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