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 160 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. [Vol. VI. 10 [it]t *tf%*r wfe]$[<te«f*fa«i Sfarfe] iu [i*] Wf 12 fWfpte %fa 1€M*W«ll3 II TRANSLATION. Cm. Hail ! On Thursday, the 15th (tithi) of the bright (fortnight) of Vai&kha in the Saka year 1128, the Durmukhi-tfamvaltara, — Hail ! the glorious MahdmarufalSivara Rudradevaraja of Nfttav&di, who was possessed of all the glory of such names as the Mahdman 4alehara who has obtained the five great sounds ; the lord of Madapalla, the best of cities ; the chief pillar, as it were, of the Ch&}ukya kingdom ; the end of (i.e. fulfilling) the desires of holy men; the worshipper of the feet of the holy lord of the three worlds; and the destroyer of hostile armies, gave — for the salvation of his father Buddaraja, the brother-in-law of K&katiya- Ganapatid$va-Mah&r&ja who was possessed of all glory, — 55 goats for lighting a perpetual lamp, as long as the moon and the sun shall last, before the god Mahadeva of the Malldsvara (temple) at Bejav&da. Having received these, Konda-Sure-B6ya with his sons and further descendants has to supply daily one mdna, (stamped with) a Nandi, of ghee.

This is the first of some papers which will deal with some selected records of the BAshtrakuta kings of M&lkhed* The records have been ohosen, partly because of the general historical interest that attaches to them, and partly in order to illustrate the development of the alphabet of the Zanarese country during the ninth century A.D.* As regards the latter point, I cannot undertake to deal fully with all the palseographic details : to do so, would be beyond my particular sphere of work, and would occupy time which I prefer to devote to other matters of wider interest ; and I must leave that line of inquiry to be dealt with, in its minute particulars, by anyone who is more concerned than I am with the special illustration of Indian palaeography. I shall notice a few details that may seem of particular interest. But, for the most part, I shall only deal, on somewhat broad lines, with certain characters whioh furnish leading tests in determining the sequence and approximate dates of undated genuine records which belong to the period in question or may fall within about half a century before it, and in arriving at some conclusion as to the order in which certain spurious records were fabricated and the periods to which they are really to be referred. A.— Hatti-Mattur inscription of the time of Krishna I. This inscription is now brought to notice for the first time. I edit it, and the collotype is given, from an ink-impression obtained by me in 1882. > The r of rkkm it indistinct. ' The anutvdra standi at the beginning of the nest line; read *ff^°* 1 See lome remarki on page* 74, 77, above. Digitized by Google