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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 15─COPPER-PLATE CRANT OF KADAMBA TRIBHUVANAMALLA ; SAKA 1028 (1 Plate) P. B. DESAI, OOTACAMUND The existence of a few sets of copper-plate records[6] in the possession of a respectable gentleman in the western part of the Dekkan was reported to the Government Epigraphist for India. Proceeding on this information photographs of these inscriptions were secured in November 1949. One of them is the present charter,[7] which I edit here with the kind permission of the above authority. The set consists of three plates, each measuring approximately 9 inches long and 6 inches broad. They are strung on a ring the ends of which are fixed into the bottom of a worn-out seal which seems to contain the figure of a lion and a legend which cannot be read. The rims of the plates are raised to protect the writing which is well-preserved. The inner sides of the first and/ _____________________________________________________
[6] Some of these records are fairly early and highly interesting. They have been noticed briefly in this journal ;
see above, Vol. XXVI, pp. 338 ff.
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