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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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Sanskrit name Rudrapurushadatta in Prakrit under Dravidian linguistic influence. In that case, we may think that rudra became ruda through the intermediate form rudda and rula through the intermediate form rua. But the possibility of ruda being a modified form of a Dravidian rula cannot be regarded as out of question.
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1 Mahārājasa asamedha-[y]jisa aneka-hiramna-kodi-go-sa
2 tasahasa-hala-satasahasa-padayisa svāmi-siri-Chartam[ü]lasa
3 pasun[hjaya mahārājasa [svām]i-[s]i[r]i-Virapuri sadatasa]
4 suṁnhāya mah[a]rājasa [svāmi]-S[i]ri-Ehavala-Chamtamůlasa
5 pattiya raño Vasiṭhiputtasa Ikhakunam siri-Ruḍa
6 purisadatasa mātūya mahadeviya mahākhatapa-dhūtūya Ba[ha]
7 phala-sagotaya siri-Vanimabhataya samvachharaṁ ekkāram 10 1
8 väsä-pakham pathamam 1 divasam athamam 8 saga-gataya chhaya9 khambho] ||*
From impressions.
The full-stop is indicated here by a curve slanting towards the lower right and having a dot above and another dot below its beginning. This may be compared to the punctuation indicated by a horizontal stroke with a dot above and another below, as found in the copper-plate grants of the Sarabhapura kings, See above, Vol. XXXIII, p. 157, note 9; p. 158, note 1.
