South Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
Contents
List of Plates
Additions and Corrections
Images
Contents
A. S. Altekar
P. Banerjee
Late Dr. N. K. Bhattasali
Late Dr. N. P. Chakravarti
B. CH. Chhabra
A. H. Dani
P. B. Desai
M. G. Dikshit
R. N. Gurav
S. L. Katare
V. V., Mirashi
K. V. Subrahmanya Aiyar
R. Subrahmanyam
T. N. Subramaniam and K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
M. Venkataramayya
Akshaya Keerty Vyas
D. C. Sircar
H. K. Narasimhaswami
Sant Lal Katare
Index
Appendix
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

Ramagrāma may actually be the joint name of two adjacent places called Astihōṇa and Rāmagrāma. With the name of Astihōṇa may be compared that of the village Astihavēra mentioned in the Tekkali plates of Umavarman.^[1] The localities mentioned as lying on the boundaries of the gift land, except the sea or the Bay of Bengal, cannot be identified.

TEXT^[2]

First Plate

1 Svasti [||*] Vijaya-Siṅgha(Siṁha)purāt bhaga[va][t*]-svāmi-Nārāyaṇa-pād-ānuddhyātaḥ Mā-
2 ṭhara-kula-kīrtti-varddhanakara[ḥ] śrī-Śaṅkaravarmmaṇa[ḥ*] pautra[ḥ*] Kṛishṇavēnnā-Ma-
3 hānady-antara[ṁ]^[3] sva-prajā-dharmmēṇ=[ā*]nuśāsina[ḥ*] śrī-Śaktivarmmaṇa[ḥ*] pu[t]ra[ḥ*] sva-
4 kul-ālaṅkarishṇus=[sa]kala-Kaliṅg-ādhipati[ḥ] śrī-mahārāja-Prabhañjanavarmmā

Second Plate, First Side

5 Astihōṇa-Rāmagrāmē sarvva-samavētā[n*] kuṭumbina[ḥ*] samājñāpayati [|*] ya ēsha grā-
6 m-āchhē(chchhē)dyēna uttarēṇa Rukmapati[ḥ*] paśchimēṇa(na) Vyāghraprastara-śālmalīvṛi
7 ksha-sthu(sthā)yi-vā(va)lmīka(kaḥ) dakshinēna samudra ^[4]ēbhir=yvē sīmai ā-chandra-tāraka- prati-
8 shṭha[ṁ*] Niṅgōṇḍi[ḥ*] agrahāraṁ kṛitvā nānāvidha-gōttra-ścha(cha)raṇēbhya[ḥ*]^[5]saṁ- pratta[ḥ |]

Second Plate, Second Side

9 tad=ēvaṁ viditvā yushmābhi[ḥ*] pūrvv-ōchita-maryyāday-ōpasthānaṁ karttavyam=iti mēya-hira-
10 ny-ā(ny-ā)di ch=ōpanēyaṁ^[6]bhavishya-rājñaś=cha saṁpūjayā su-dharmma-krama-vikra- mābhyāṁ
11 dānam=anupālanañ=ch=ēti^[6] [|*] ēsha khalu sva-dharmma[ḥ |*] api ch=ātra Vyāsa-gītāḥ(tān)
12 ślōkān=udāharanti [|*] Bahubhir=vvasudhā dattāḥ(ttā) vasudhā^[7]vasudh-ādhipai[ḥ*] yasya ya-

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^[1] See ARSIE, 1934-5, p. 52 ; above, Vol. XXVIII, p. 302. I am not in favour treating asti-in these names as a separate indeclinable word. The word asti here may be a corruption of Sanskrit kastin ; cf. Attivarman= Hastivarman (Suc. Sāt., p. 58).
^[2] From the impressions kindly supplied by the late Raja Saheb of Tekkali.
^[3] The reading may also be ºntara-sthā[naṁ*] prajāº or ntara-stha-prajā.
^[4] The reading intended seems to be ēbhir=ēva sīmaiḥ avachchhinnaḥ Niṅgōṇḍiḥ ā-chandra-tāraka-pratishṭham-agrahāraṁ kṛitvā. The word sīma is found in inscriptions for sīman (see Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, s. v.).
^[5] The word Brāhmaṇēbhyaḥ has been carelessly dropped.
^[6] The passage is defective. In other records we have bhavishyatah=cha rājñō vijñāpayāmi (or ºpayati) ; dharma-karma-vikramāṇām=idaṁ dānam sad-dharmam=anupaśyādbhir=ēshō=grahārō=nupalyaḥ. Cf. above, Vol. XII, p. 5 (text, line 8-10) ; XXVII, p. 35 (text, lines 10-13), etc.
^[7] Read bahudhā.

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