South Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
Contents
Additions and Corrections
Images
Contents
Rev. J.E. Abbott
R.G. Bhandarkar
Prof. G. Buhler
W. Cartellieri
J.F. Fleet
E. Hultzsch
Prof. Kielhorn
Prof. Kielhorn, and H. Krishna Sastri
H. Luders
G.V. Ramamurti
J. Ramayya
Vajeshankar G. Ojha, and TH. Von Schtscherbatskoi
V. Venkayya
E.W. West
Index
List of Plates
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

No. 2.-SRAVANA-BELGOLA EPITAPH OF PRABHACHANDRA.
BY. J. F. FLEET, I.C.S., PH.D., C.I.E.

This inscription was first brought to notice in 1874, by the text and translation published by Mr. Rice in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. III. p. 153. The translation has also been given by him in his Mysore Inscription, p. 302, published in 1879. And the text and translation have finally been revised and reproduced by him, with lithographs, as No. 1 in his Inscriptions at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa, published in 1889.^[6] From ink-impressions received from Dr. Hultzsch in 1892, I published some remarks on Mr. Rice’s treatment of the record, and on its real meaning, in a paper entitled “ Bhadrabâhu, Chandragupta, and Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa,” in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXI. p. 156 ff. And I now edit it in full, with a lithograph, from some better ink-impressions more recently sent by him.^[7]

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^[6] The lithograph attached to the text in Roman characters, is not a purely mechanical one ; and it does not represent the original with fidelity, though it suffices to give a general idea of the palӕographic standard of it. To the text in Kanarese characters, there is attached a mechanically produced lithograph ; but it is very indistinct, and is in fact practically useless.
^[7] There are many aksharas, legible enough in the ink-impressions, which are hardly discernible, if at all, in the lithograph. And this interesting record doubtless deserves a better reproduction than that now offered. But the best that could be done with the ink-impression, without any tampering with them, has been done. And it is questionable whether any better materials, foe purely mechanical reproduction, can be obtained.

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