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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 6─MUSUNIKA GRANT OF DEVENDRAVARMAN III ; GANGA YEAR 306 (1 Plate) V. V. MIRASHI, NAGPUR The copper-plates containing this grant are said to have been found by a cultivator while ploughing a field at Shalantri,[8] a village fifteen miles west of Chicacole in the Srikakulam (Chicacole) District of the Andhra State. They have been published with facsimiles by Mr. Manda Narasimham in the Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society, Vol. XVIII (Silver Jubilee Volume), pp. 115 ff. As the published facsimile is not quite clear and Mr. Narasimham’s transcript of the text also is not quite satisfactory, I re-edit the record here from excellent ink impressions, kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist for India. The copper-plates are three in number, each measuring 7·3″ broad and 3·2″ high. The first and the third plate are inscribed on the inner side only, and the second on both the sides. When discovered, the plates were held together by a ring which carried the usual Gaṅga seal, containing the emblem of a couching bull. The plates together with the ring weigh 119 tolas, and the ring only, 35 tolas. The writing on the first plate and on the first side of the second has suffered a little from verdigris, but the damaged letters can be read without much difficulty. The remaining two inscribed sides are in a good state of preservation. The record consists of 30 lines, the first and the third plate having 8 lines each, and the second 7 lines on either side. The characters are of the later Kaliṅga alphabet, noticed in the records _________________________________________________ [8] JAHRS, Vol. XVIII, p. 115. I have not, however, been able to trace this village on the Degree Map 65 N. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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