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 176 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [J i ;ne, 1875. tions to the great convent of Dnddil built by the venerable Dudd.i and situated .... in order to procure food, clothing, seats, remedies and medicines* for the sick, and so forth, the following four villages : — ftomypallav&laku, situated between Ann. and F ipjxihi ru nkhari, and Saujarniiiwl:u in the township of Mandali, as well as ■•, and OJtossan in. Detakahttrarf with. ...... with, with tlie revenue in dry and greea (produce), corn and gold, and with the rig] forced labour arising (therefrom), according to the analogy of the familiar instance of the ground and the cleft. Wherefore no obstruction should.be made to him who, by virtue of his belonging to the community of the reverend Sakya monks, enjoys (these villages), tills (the land) or causes it to be tilled. And the future wort by kings of our race, understanding the instability of power, the frailty of humanity, and the benefits derived from gifts of land which are common (to all protecting them), should consent to and protect this our grant ; and he who takes it, or allows it to be taken away shall obtaiu the punishments of the five (kinds of) evil acta, and, living in the three (kinds of) existences, shall be guilty of the five mortal sins as well as of the minor sins. (It has) also (been declared :) What good man would resume property which out of fear erty kings have given for pious purposes, and which resembles leavings and vomited (food) ? Many kings as Sagara, and others have enjoyed the earth. To him who possesses the earth belongs the fruit thereof. My own verbal order. My own sign-manual. (thai) erf the illustrious Mah;'ir.*ija Otth- Written by Sfamddblwpt, charged with the min- istry of war and peace, in the dark half of Mdgha 266. SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS. BY J. F. FLEET, Esq., I: In the Sanskrit and Old Canarese inscrip- tions, on walls and pillars of temples, on de- tached stone-tablets and monumental stones, and on copper-plates, of the Canaresi of the Bombay Presidency and the neighbour- ing territories of Madras, Maisur, and Haidara- Md, there exist abundant materials for com- piling a tolerably detailed and connected his- torical account of that part of the country for a period of seven or eight centuries from about the middle of the fifth century a. d., and at the same time for illustrating the gradual devclop- Peter ►. ?- '•■ !**{*( S. t Tbc translation of pr; '-v. ; 'r <|nins justification. In the Bronco plates the phraac uchf tabhataprJ.resyaorehi praveSya occurs, and the word mean a ' to he <-ntc-r.-d the fat. passive f,nrt. of lit with pra+n. Here it the same meaning. It is clear f ri «a the -tatements about the other three villages that the compound Anutnanjiprftrenya- pippalarunkhariprftresyn contains something about the situation of Samfpattavfitafca. I take therefore, Annm&nii and Fippuhiruiikharl to stand in tho ablative ease. l*ippa- tarunliharl was assicued to the convent of Duddu by Dhmrasena I : / I AM IV. p, I (H - :. % From some correspondence on the subject that I hare, perused, it appears that the Elliot Collection comprised altogether 1,339 stone an«l copper-plate iniusriptions ; a large number of these, however, were in bheTeJugu lun- guaffo and characters. The series presented to the three Societies appears to have included all the Sam,krit i Canareee inscriptions^ and a few in the Tdu It appears also thnt Sir W. Elliot's translation by * Kadambaxi Jaganaadhan Gum' and ' Vavilala Sub- ment of the modern forms of its vernacular Language. But little, however, has ae yet been done towards bringing these materials within the reach of those who can utilize them. Some forty years ago a collection of manu- script copies of five hundred and ninety-five of these inscriptions was presented in triplicate by Mr. (now Sir Walter) Elliot, of tho Madras Civil Service, to the B ty of London and the Branch Societies of Bombay and Madras,^ • These copies were made by bararn', who fa 1871 held respectarely the posts of Trea- sury Deputy-Collector in tlioCJodfirari District and Sol,. ?. a 8-" trat '' "* ' Folnvnnim.' One v f Uie men employed by Saw. Elliot to decipher and copy the inscriptions was 1 ..ir.uoii.lu. who, in 1S7I, was a Cuttle-pound Si™!™*** < Sl- V> p, ' r "" ; n. This man had kept mri»atecc>i phona out of the whole collection, o .. we re { ttkt " ■rniwntofMadra, I .<:■«• copies: but with what ultimate result I ha., Ma to as. Ai.r.th.r man thus employed w;;, now deceased, of lion in the Dhtnr&i District; q few duplicates of the copies made by him f,r Sir W. Elliot were shown to me by his rod Siddhnppa : they were very ^accurate and incomplete, and seemed '■ be urythfag ,!]}■ ,r "^"'" rt 'iy- fho same 6 Bitot Collection was " completely destroy on the voyage to England ii iriUilogu:" probably Si,- H Rlliotfs own copies o 1 ' '."■; :-apa tho copy of thn Sanskrit aod Did Cai rmtjone intended for the London hociety. Some ol i^r-plate* would appear to he still in exmtcace in England.
 * For the translation of the word W^JfJ compare the