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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
No. 22.- KONDAVIDU PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF BY H. LÜDERS, PH.D. ; GÖTTINGEN. Inked estampages of this inscription[4] were sent to me by Dr. Hultzsch through Prof. Kielhorn with the following note : “ On four faces of a pillar near the agrahâra at Koṇḍavîḍu. The pillar is supported on two sides (north and south) by stones which made it impossible to copy and ink the top lines of the inscription in full.”[5]
The inscription contains 166 lines of writing. The average size of the letters is ¾″.─ The
alphabet is Telugu and, with few exceptions, resembles that of the Maṅgalagiri inscription.[6]
Several times ka appears here in the old form ; see e.g. ll. 3, 6, 15, 16, 30, 43, 118, 145 (ka) ;
27, 111 (kâ) ; 142, 146 (ki) ; 11 (kî) ; 17, 157 (ku) ; 7 (kṛi) ; 11 (kê) 142 (kku), while such
forms as ka in ll. 7, 64, ku in l. 46, kê in l. 92, kau in l. 39, may be called transitional. The sha
occasionally shows the younger form occurring also in the Vânapalli plates ; see ll. 69 (sha) ; 24
(shṭha) ; 33 (kshmâ). Ḷa appears throughout in the form of the Biṭraguṇṭa grant and the
Vânapalli plates. in dha the ottu is used only in dhi in l. 19 (vârâṁ nidhir), dhî in l. 72, and
in the subscript dh of dhdha in l. 34. But in gha and ḍha it is used quite regularly, and in
bha it is only missing in bhû, bhu, bhô in l. 163, and in bhṛi in ll. 5, 59 and bhyâ in l. 7 on
account of the subscript sign. In the groups rma, rya and rva the full sign of r is generally
used, but in ryû in l.
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