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1.—The first inscription of which we are about to give an abstract taanslation, has been obtained and coznmunicatedby Rija DIJARMA Van. KATA ASWA RAo, who has been for some time in Calcutta, to urg. on the supreme government of India his claim to the gadi of the raj of Paluncka, or Kummummft, which through some recent arrangements of the Nizam’s government has been assigned to a rival cItim.nt. The inscription is stated to be engraved on a slab about six or seven feet high, which is to be found close to the temple of RUDRADEVA at Waranq-al, the modern name for the ancient capital of the Telingana rãjas, called in this inscription Arirnakundu-pura, or patana. The inscription, that is its commencement and close, excluding the Sanskrit slokas, is in an old dialect of mixed Telugu and Oorya. ft is ‘valuable as containing the genealogy of rja HUDRADZVA, and as showing that the previous dynasty established at Warangal, was overcome, and displaced by his father called PR0LI rja. The inscription gives an authentic date also for the reign of REJDRADEVA in Telingana, viz. 1054 Saka, corresponding with 1132 A. D., and shows this to be the rja, called in the temple annals of Jagcrnnath, CHUJANO, orCuoiiouNoA, who is said to have overrun Katak, coming from the Carnalk, and to have founded o established the Gunga..vaiua dynasty, in the very year of this inscription, iz. 1054 Saks. Raja RUDRADSVA is mentioned as a benefactor of Jagannatla, and Katak is included in the boundaries which are assigned to his dominioni at that period. These are described in the inscrip*ion, as extending as far as the sea to the east; the Sree Salk I mountains to the south; as far in another, direction, which must be west, as Bdicatake; while to the north, his rule extended as far as the Malyava ate, now perhaps the Malyagirs, mountain, west of Bale.war. The inscription commences thus: “The réja RUDRADEVA, who obtained the five high titles, and was sovereign of Arunakirnda.pura, king of kings, and lord of all things, virtuous, and fortunate, of the KáJcali race, established the three Devata.,, Rudre,hwara, (after his own name,) .Basud.ca, and Su4a- deva, in Anrnakunda-patana, his capital city, for the continuation and spread of his dominion, in the year of Saks 1054, and in the year ChitrablIanil of the Vrihaspati Chakar or 60 years cycle of Jupiter on the 13th of Magh, a fortunate Sunday.” Then follow three slokas, the first in praise of HARE, the second of GANESHA, the third a prayer to SARASWATI. The 4th sloka commences the genealogy of RUDSA NARESUwARA as given by ACHZNTZNDRA