South Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
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Additions and Corrections
Images
Contents
Dr. Bhandarkar
J.F. Fleet
Prof. E. Hultzsch
Prof. F. Kielhorn
Prof. H. Luders
J. Ramayya
E. Senart
J. PH. Vogel
Index-By V. Venkayya
Appendix
List of Plates
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
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Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
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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. 3.─AMARAVATI INSCRIPTION OF KRISHNARAYA OF VIJAYANAGARA ;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1437.

BY H. LÜDERS, PH.D.; GÖTTINGEN.

This inscription,^[1] which I edit from inked estampages supplied by Dr. Hultzsch, is engraved on a slab in the Saṁnyâsin’s room in the Amarêśvara temple at Amarâvatî in the Kistna district.

It contains 53 lines of writing. The average size of the letters is ⅝”. The alphabet is Telugu of the type described in Vol. VI. p. 108 f. Ka shows here everywhere the advanced form. Ḷa appears twice (ll. 10 and 14) in the older form of the Biṭraguṇṭa and Vânapalli plates, but in l. 49 it shows a form which comes nearer to that of the Maṅgalagiri inscription. The ottu appears in ḍha (l. 35) ; in the case of dha and bha it occurs only in a few cases, and it is never
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^[1] No. 266 of the Government Epigraphist’s collection for the year 1897.

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