Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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No. 6.] VATTELUTTU INSCRIPTIONS OF CHOLA KINGS.
= 24 ता च ताम्येव नरके वसेत् ॥ वन्ध्याटवीष्वतीयासु शुष्ककोटरवासिनः
[*] कृष्णाहयो हि जायन्ते भूमिदायं हर 25 ति ये । बहुभिर्वसुधा भुक्ता राजभिः सगरादिभिः [1] यस्य यस्य
यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तदा फलं ॥ यानीह ताद' 28 नि पुरा नरेन्द्रनानि धमार्थयशस्कराणि [1] निर्भुक्तमाल्यप्रतिमानि
तानि की नाम साधुः पुनराददीत ॥ खद-' 27 तां परदत्ता वा यवादच युधिष्ठिर । महीं महिमतां श्रेष्ठ दानाच्छू.
योनुपालनमिति' [1] No. I.
No. II. संवत्मरमतत्रये [28] हि[नवत्यधिके संवत्सरशतवये हिनवत्यधि- [27] के वैशाखशहपञ्चदश्यां स्वमुखाजया लिखि- वैशाखपौर्णमास्यां भोगिकपालककर्कदूतकं तमिदं सन्धिविग्रहकरणाधिक्कतरवेण लिखितं साधिविग्रहिकरेवेण स्वमुखाज[29] सं ३०.६.२ वैशाख श येति [28] सं २.०९.२ वैशाख शु १.५ दिनकरचरणाचनरतस्य श्रीवीत- १.५ दिनकरचरणार्यनरतस्य श्रीवीतरागसूनीः स्वहस्तीयं श्रीप्रशान्तरागस्य । रागसूनीः स्वहस्तोयं श्रीप्रशा- [29]
न्तरागस्य ॥
No. 6.- EIGHT VATTELUTTU INSCRIPTIONS OF CHOLA KINGS.
____Br E. HULTZSCH, PH.D. Professor Buhler in his Indian Palæography (p. 72 f. of the German edition) and Mr. Venkayya in his paper on the Kottayam plate of Vira-Raghava (above, Vol. IV. p. 293) have lately urged the necessity of publishing Vatteluttu inscriptions, the dates of which can be fixed with some certainty. Hence I take this opportunity for issuing mechanical copies of eight Chola inscriptions. None of these is in a condition of complete preservation; but I trust that, even in their necessarily imperfect state, the accompanying facsimiles will prove useful for tracing the development of the Vattelattu alphabet.
Five of the inscriptions (A. to E.) are engraved on two boulders in the Sthapupátba temple at Suobindram between Kottåra and Cape Comorin in the Travancore State, and the remaining three (F. to H.) on the north wall of the shrine in the Råmasvâmin temple at Shermadevi in the Tinnovelly district. They belong to the reigns of the Chola kings
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1 No. IL.omita the verse व(वि)ग्ध्याटवौषिष्यादि. .No. II राभिष-In No. II. line 23 enda with यस्य यस्स.-- Read यानी दलानि with No. II.
In No. II. line henda with °यशखराषि.-No. II. ham निक • InNO.IL. lim as enda with यवाद.-No. II. ham मषि-Read महोमना.-No. II. -'पाखवि .