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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
VOLUME XXV
‘No. L—REWAH PLATES OF THE TIME OF TRAILOKYAMALLADEVA: [KALA- CHURI ) YEAR 965.
By N. P. Chakravarti, M.A., Ph.D., Ootacamund,
This set of two copper-plates was found in 1929 at Dhureti, a village about 7 miles from the Rewah town, by a cultivator while ploughing his field, and is now preserved in the Treasury at Rewah. During my visit to Rewah early in 1936, I came to know of this find and later in the same year the Political Minister of the State very kindly sent me the plates for examination and taking impressions. The record has already been noticed by me in the Annual Report, Archaeological Survey of India, 1995-36, pp. 00-01 and I am now editing ivin the Epigraphia Indica with the kind permission of the Rewah Darbar,
The plates measure 153" 101" cach ond are strung together by means of o ring, passing through a hole pierced about the middle of each plate. ‘Thoy are inscribed on one side only, the obverse of the first and the reverse of the second plate being left blink. They have highly raised rims Which have protected the writing beautifully, There is a seal attached to the ring, bearing at the top the figure of Gaja-Lakshmi in relief, rather crudely executed. Below the figure is a legend in one lino which reads Srimat-Trailstyamalla. Whin the plates were received by mo the ring was found already cut but there can be no doubt that both the ring and the seal belong to the plates under discussion. The seal measures 62" x4)" aud the plates including the ring and the seal weigh 419 tolas.
Each plate has I!) lines of writing, the letters being approximately |” in height, The en- graver appears to have left too much margin betwoon the lines in the second plate and had to engrave the last two lines in slightly smaller characters so that the record could be completed jn this face of the plate, The engraving was done rather carelessly, Some of the letters are ill formed and while syllables have been dropped in many places, only in two cases the missing letters haye heen «applied wt the top of the line concerned. The characters are Nigari, the language being Sauskrit. The whale record with the exeeption of three verses in TL I-b is in prose. Several mistakes in grammar and syntax show that though the record was composed by two Pundits, neither of them was » proficient scholar in Sanskrit. The script does not call for any special remarks ‘bat attention may be drawn to the following mittor pomts. The nmerrara has sometimes been represented by « circle above the syllable to which it belongs, 4.9; sinha (1.8), Srichanida (1, 9), parifita (1. 11), ete., and sometimes it has bedn written in an ormamental way, eg. dm (1. 1), mamti, mandalaka (1. 8), samadhi” (1, 8), etc. In writing 4 sometimes a cross bur has been used joining the two Timibe of the letter thus making it look like sel. Sivdya (1. 1), darenyah (L 4), éra-Malayasinvha (1.8). Saie-dehary® (L- 11), etc. Due to shabbiness in writing it is sometimes hard to distinguish between ¢ and oh. For the saing
seis etn ddhamana und thu in Jyeehtha (1. 7) Took like era ond: ¢e respectively, As