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No. 38.- MAsulipatam plates of Ammaraja II.

By B. V. Krishna Rao, M A , B. L. Rajahmundry.

This interesting record of the Eastern Chilukyn dynasty was first notios by tl Sewell when it was found lying in the record room of the District Court of K patam.! It is mat known where the plates were originally discovered 'wad how wnd when they mached the District Conrtof Kistma, Dr. JF. Fleot, who examined these plates at the instance af Robert Sewell, described them aa follows:

"A set of five copper-plates, each about 11)* long by 5] broad with o seal which bears the or an elephant-gond and a floral device»... very much corroded and very difficult to read?”

These plates came to be included in the callection of the. tendent for Epigraphy, Southern Cirle, in 1908, and marke

late Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sastri st : ne supplied to mo by Dr. N. P. Chiiermvarti, The inscription on these plates is written in the Telugu characters of the tenth century, ‘he letters are beautifully engraved ; and the plates used forthe purpose of the grant are perhaps the largest ever need for the charters of

The inscription also contains some archaic Telugu words, eg., diba (1, 87), podwee (If. 58 and G0), pranta-parti (L 58) and yisupakatte (L 57), the exact meanings of which are not quite clear. These words occur in the description. of the boundaries of the village granted, °°

The inscription consists apparently of two parte; and though it records a charity to the Jaina religion, it opens with an invocation to the god Vishgn, the wielder of the fierce sdnige bow which

Liat of Inscriptions and Satchen of the Dynastic of Sowth India, Vol. Hp. 13; No. #4.

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"Annual Report oa Epigraphy, Madras, 1909, pp. 10 nind 108,