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No. 25.]
SPURIOUS SUDI PLATES.
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The earlier Western Gangas, according to the spurious grants.
Kongapivarman.
Madhavs 1.
Haivarman. (A. D. 248)
Vishnugopa.
Madhava II.
Avinita-Kongaội.
(A. D. 466)
Darvinita-Kongani.
Mushkara, or Mokkara.
Vikrama, or Srivikrama.
Bhûvikrama.
Śivamara-Kongriņi.
(A son.)
Sripurushs-Prithuvi-Kongani.
(A.D. 762 and 766-67)
Museum grant, it may be added that portions of the text aro bodily misplaced ; and the context is so mized up that, without the other records as a guide, most of it would be hopelessly unintelligible.
The next point to command attention is the palæography of the grante, as far as published lithographs are available.
The Tanjore grant purports to have been issued in A.D. 248. But every character in it betrays a far later date ; and, taken all together, they point to the tenth oentury A.D., as the earliest possible period for the fabrication of the record. This was recognised by Dr. Burnell (Bonth-Indian Palmography, pp. 34, 35, and Plate xi.), who classed the alphabet among the Grantha-Tamil alphabets, and expressed the opinion that the document,- distinctly styled by him " forgery," - shews the condition of the northern Chêrs characters about the tenth century. A most tell-tale character in this record is the l: it is distinctly & Grantha character of a late type; and the only approximation to it, that I can find, is in the Grantha alphabet exhibited by Dr. Burnell in his Plate xiv., and allotted by him to A. D. 1383.
