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<p>Halantas. T: l1 śrīmaT, smallish ta shape with long stem and no headmark; note use of T in what is normally viewed as a compound. l1 vāsakāT, same. M: all instances are unclear in the scan. Perhaps a small ma shape with the right-hand arm elongated, but perhaps simplified into a single stroke like a check mark or a Latin capital J.</p>
<p>Original punctuation. The opening symbol seems to be a fairly small dextrorse spiral, transcribed by Somasekhara Sarma as oṁ.</p>
<p>Other palaeographic observations. Subscript m is usually cursively simplified into a loop lying on its side.
<p>Original punctuation. The opening symbol seems to be a fairly small dextrorse spiral, transcribed by Somasekhara Sarma as oṁ. It rather resembles a clock face with a single hand around 7 o'clock.</p>
<p>Other palaeographic observations. Subscript m is usually cursively simplified into a loop lying on its side. The numerals 10, 8 and 5 occur in the date (l24). Of these the sign for 10, occurring twice, is of a shape unfamiliar to me. It is as if it were rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, so that it resembles a southern ma rather than an alpha. Both the ARIE report and SS read it without comment or hesitation as 10, and this must indeed be its meaning. Somewhat similar forms of 10 seem to occur in inscriptions of the Gaṅgas of Kaliṅga.
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<change who="part:axja" when="2020-11-03" status="draft">Updating toward the encoding template v03</change>
<change who="part:daba" when="2023-12-06" status="draft">Collation with photographs</change>
<change who="part:axja" when="2020-11-03" status="draft">Updating toward the encoding template v03</change>
<change who="part:daba" when="2020-08-14" status="draft">Encoded hand description, bibliography and commentary from earlier comments</change>
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n="1v"/><lb
n="1"/><g type="spiralR"/>svasti śrīmaT-kallūra-vāsakāT svāmi-bhaṭṭāraka-pāda-padma-prasādā<lb
n="1"/><!--GOOD PHOTO: P1010485.JPG--><g type="spiralR"/>svasti śrīmaT-kallūra-vāsakāT svāmi-bhaṭṭāraka-pāda-padma-prasādā<lb
n="2" break="no"/>vāptarājyānāṁ hārītī-priya-putrāṇāṁ mānavya-sagotrāṇām aśva<lb
n="3" break="no"/>medha-yā<space type="binding-hole"/>jināṁ calukyānāṁ kula-jaladhi-samudbhūta-rāja-ratna<lb
n="4" break="no"/>sya sakala<space type="binding-hole"/>-jagad-ārtti-hara-karmmaṇaḥ śrī-kīrttivarmmaṇaḥ priya<lb
n="5" break="no"/>-naptā sva-pitur anūna-guṇa-gaṇod<supplied reason="omitted">d</supplied>yotita-rociṣṇor aidaṁyugīna-ma<lb
n="6" break="no"/>hāviṣṇoḥ viṣṇuvarddhana-mahārājasya priya-tanayaḥ
n="5" break="no"/>-naptā sva-pitur anūna-guṇa-gaṇo<choice><orig>d</orig><reg>dd</reg></choice>yotita-rociṣṇor aidaṁyugīna-ma<lb
n="6" break="no"/>hāviṣṇoḥ viṣṇuvarddhana-mahārājasya priya-tanayaḥ|
<pb

n="2r"/><lb
n="7"/>pravarddhamāna-pratāpopanamita-ripu-nr̥pati-makuṭa-taṭa-ghaṭita-ma<lb
n="8" break="no"/>ṇi-mayū<choice><sic>k</sic><corr>kh</corr></choice>a-mañjarī-puñja-piñjarita-caraṇāravinda-yugalaḥ para<lb
n="9" break="no"/>ma-brahmaṇyo mātā-pitr̥-pādānuddhyātaḥ śrī-p<orig>ri</orig>thivī-jayasiṁha<lb
n="7"/><!--PHOTO: P1010496.JPG-->pravarddhamāna-pratāpopanamita-ripu-nr̥pati-makuṭa-taṭa-ghaṭita-ma<lb
n="8" break="no"/>ṇi-mayūkha-mañjarī-puñja-piñjarita-caraṇāravinda-yugalaḥ para<lb
n="9" break="no"/>ma-brahmaṇyo <space type="binding-hole"/> mātā-pitr̥-pādānuddhyātaḥ śrī-p<choice><orig>ri</orig><reg>r̥</reg></choice>thivī-jayasiṁha<lb
n="10" break="no"/>-vallabha-ma<space type="binding-hole"/>hārājaḥ pḻakki-viṣayam adhivāsinaḥ kuṭumbinaḥ <lb
n="11"/>samājñāpayati</p>
<p>yathā maudgalya-sagotrasya kauthuma-chando<lb
n="12" break="no"/>ga-sabrahmacāriṇaḥ kumāraśarmmaṇaḥ pautrābhyāṁ vasuśarmmaṇaḥ<pb

n="2v"/><lb
n="13"/>putrābhyā<orig>M</orig> vinayaśa<choice><sic>ma</sic><corr>rmma</corr></choice>-viṣṇuśarmmābhyā<unclear>ṁ</unclear> trisahasra-pāragābhyāM <lb
n="13"/><!--PHOTO: P1010490.JPG-->putrābhyāM vinayaśa<supplied reason="omitted">r</supplied>ma-viṣṇuśarmmabhyā<unclear>ṁ</unclear> trisahasra-pāragābhyāM <lb
n="14"/>ṣaṭ-karmma-niratābhyāM Asmad-āyur-ārogya-jaya-yaśo<orig>t</orig>i<lb
n="15" break="no"/>vr̥ddhaye <space type="binding-hole"/> soma-grahaṇe Udaka-pūrvvaṁ kr̥tvā Ādivāse <lb
n="16"/>punnāgapa<space type="binding-hole"/>dra<supplied reason="omitted">ṁ</supplied> <choice><sic>vastādiṁ</sic><corr>vasatiṁ</corr></choice> kr̥tvā kuḻivāṭaka-kṣetra-sahitaṁ pa<lb
n="17" break="no"/>ścima-khaṇḍaḥ sarvva-kara<surplus>ṁ</surplus>-parīhāreṇāgrahāraṁ kr̥tvā Ā-candrārka<lb
n="16"/>punnāgapa<space type="binding-hole"/>dr<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>e</corr></choice> <choice><sic>vastādiṁ</sic><corr>vasatiṁ</corr></choice> kr̥tvā kuḻivāṭaka-kṣetra-sahitaṁ pa<lb
n="17" break="no"/>ścima-khaṇḍa<choice><sic>ḥ</sic><corr>ṁ</corr></choice> sarvva-kara-parīhāreṇāgrahāraṁ kr̥tvā Ā-candrārka<lb
n="18" break="no"/>-tārakam mayā saṁprattaM<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> tad viditvā yathocitaṁ bhāga-bhoga<pb

n="3r" break="no"/><lb
n="19" break="no"/>m upanayantaḥ sukha<choice><sic>ḥ</sic><corr>ṁ</corr></choice> prativasatha<surplus>ḥ</surplus><supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> kaiścid api bādhā na kartta<lb
n="19" break="no"/><!--PHOTO: P1010501.JPG, P1010504.JPG-->m upanayantaḥ sukha<choice><sic>ḥ</sic><corr>ṁ</corr></choice> prativasatha<surplus>ḥ</surplus><supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> kaiścid api bādhā na kartta<lb
n="20" break="no"/>vyā<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> vyāsa-gītāḥ</p>
<lg n="1" met="anuṣṭubh">
<l n="a">bahubhir vvasudhā dattā</l>
<l n="b">bahubhiś cānupālitā</l>
<l n="b">bahubhiś cānupālit<unclear>ā</unclear></l>
<l n="c"><lb
n="21"/>yasya ya<space type="binding-hole"/>sya yadā bhūmiḥ</l>
<l n="d">tasya tasya tadā phalaM</l>
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<l n="d">dānāc chreyo <supplied reason="subaudible">’</supplied>nupālanaM</l>
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<p>Ājñapti<unclear>ḥ</unclear> <lb
n="24"/>parameśvaravarmmā<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> <abbr>saṁ</abbr> <num value="18">10 8</num> <abbr>he</abbr> <num value="8">8</num> <abbr>di</abbr> <num value="15">10 5</num></p>
n="24"/>parameśvaravarmmā<supplied reason="subaudible">.</supplied> <abbr>saṁ</abbr> <num value="18">10 8</num> <abbr>he</abbr> <num value="8">8</num> <abbr>di</abbr> <num value="15">10 5</num><g type="dotLow"/><g type="dotLow"/><g type="dotLow"/></p>
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<div type="textpart" n="B"><head xml:lang="eng">Plates</head>
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<app loc="6">
<lem>-tanayaḥ|</lem>
<note>The vertical bar, not shown in SS's edition, may have been added as a space filler rather than a punctuation mark. The second half of this line is very widely spaced.</note>
</app>
<app loc="15">
<lem>Ādivāse</lem>
<note>Somasekhara Sarma emphasises that the reading may also be Āḍivāse. While this is possible in principle, I prefer to read this as a Sanskrit word rather than an uninterpretable toponym.</note>
<note>Somasekhara Sarma emphasises that the reading may also be Āḍivāse. While this cannot be ruled out entirely on the basis of the glyph alone, I prefer to read this as a Sanskrit word rather than an uninterpretable toponym.</note>
</app>
<app loc="16">
<lem>punnāgapa<space type="binding-hole"/>dra<supplied reason="omitted">ṁ</supplied> <choice><sic>vastādiṁ</sic><corr>vasatiṁ</corr></choice></lem>
<lem>punnāgapa<space type="binding-hole"/>dr<choice><sic>a</sic><corr>e</corr></choice> <choice><sic>vastādiṁ</sic><corr>vasatiṁ</corr></choice></lem>
<rdg source="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01">punnāgapadravastādiṁ</rdg>
<note>Somasekhara Sarma's editor suggests <foreign>punnāgapadraḥ vasatiṁ</foreign>, apparently construing <foreign>punnāgapadraḥ</foreign> as the subject (logical object) of the donation, whose verb he emends to <foreign>saṁprattaḥ</foreign>. See my commentary.</note>
<note>Somasekhara Sarma's editor suggests <foreign>punnāgapadraḥ vasatiṁ</foreign>, apparently construing <foreign>punnāgapadraḥ</foreign> as the subject (logical object) of the donation, whose verb he emends to <foreign>saṁprattaḥ</foreign>. See my commentary. @@@RETURN TO THIS; I NOW THINK THE ANUSVARA IS JUST A SPOT OF DAMAGE, NARROWER, ELONGATED AND SHALLOWER THAN OTHER ANUSVARAS. read punnaagapadre vastv-aadi?</note>
</app>
<app loc="17">
<lem>sarvva-kara<surplus>ṁ</surplus>-</lem>
<rdg source="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01">sarvva-kara<surplus>ṁ</surplus>-</rdg>
<note>The dot above <foreign>ra</foreign> is located to the left and is smaller than an <foreign>anusvāra</foreign>, so I do not think it is part of the writing.</note>
</app>
<app loc="23">
<lem>Ājñapti<unclear>ḥ</unclear></lem>
<note>The <foreign>two</foreign> dots are extremely faint. I would not read them as a <foreign>visarga</foreign> except for the fact that the characters in the previous lines (though not in the next) extend to the margin, while here there is some space at the end which may have originally been filled with this <foreign>visarga</foreign>.</note>
</app>
<app loc="24">
<lem><g type="dotLow"/><g type="dotLow"/><g type="dotLow"/></lem>
<note>The three dots at the end of the text, not shown in SS's edition, look very much like a Western ellipsis sign. They are small, but too clear and regular to be accidental.</note>
</app>


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<p> Some notes on the relationship of the three grants edited in (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01"/></bibl>, hereafter: SS) based on his summary on p136 and filled out with place names. SS's editor finds his argument unconvincing; he notes that both the village and the donee names are different in the first two grants, and the third grant seems to be a later modified copy of the second.</p>
<p>Grant 1 = <ref target="DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00005.xml">this grant</ref>, called Ādivāsa by PEM
<p>Some notes on the relationship of the three grants edited in (<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01"/></bibl>, hereafter: SS) based on his summary on p136 and filled out with place names. SS's editor finds his argument unconvincing; he notes that both the village and the donee names are different in the first two grants, and the third grant seems to be a later modified copy of the second.</p>
<p>Grant 1 = <ref target="DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00005.xml">this grant</ref>,
<list>
<item>SS:the second grant, creating a new agrahāra from land cut off on the one side from (the western portion of) Ādivāsa and on the other side from Guḍivāḍa</item>
<item>Text: he grants some land, possibly cut off from (the western part of?) Punnagapadra and including Kulivataka-ksetra. The donees are Vinayasarman and Visnusarman, sons of Vasusarman, grandsons of Kumarasarman of the Maudgalya gotra.</item>
<item>Text: he grants some land, possibly cut off from (the western part of?) Punnāgapadra and including Kulivāṭaka-kṣetra. The donees are Vinayaśarman and Viṣṇuśarman, sons of Vasuśarman, grandsons of Kumāraśarman of the Maudgalya <foreign>gotra</foreign>.</item>
<item>In the actual text: Ādivāse punnāgapadra vastādiṁ kr̥tvā kuḻivāṭaka-kṣetra-sahitaṁ paścima-khaṇḍaḥ ... saṁprattaM</item>
<item>As emended by S.Sarma: Ādivāse punnāgopavana-gr̥ha-sthānaṁ kr̥tvā kuḻivāṭaka-kṣetra-sahitaṁ paścima-khaṇḍaṁ ... saṁprattam (in this, the punnāgopavana thing is offered tentatively)</item>
<item>As emended by S. Sarma's editor: Ādivāse punnāgapadraḥ vasatiṁ kr̥tvā kuḻivāṭaka-kṣetra-sahitaḥ paścima-khaṇḍaḥ ... saṁprattaḥ</item>
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<p>Grant 2 = <ref target="DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00006.xml">Guḍivāḍa plates (set 2)</ref>, called Kuḍivāḍa 1 by PEM
<list>
<item>SS: the first grant, creating the village of Kuḍivāḍa/Guḍivāḍa or creating an agrahāra from that village</item>
<item>Text: he settles them in Kudivada village, cutting off land from Kundura village. The donees are Svamiyasas and Visnuyasas, sons of Visnuyasas, grandsons of Mitrayasas. The donees further give one ninth of their land to their sister's son (bhāgineya) Visnusarman, who is of the Gavismi gotra and thus probably different from the Visnusarman in Grant 1.</item>
<item>Text: he settles them in Kuḍivāḍa village, cutting off land from Kundura village. The donees are Svamiyasas and Visnuyasas, sons of Visnuyasas, grandsons of Mitrayasas. The donees further give one ninth of their land to their sister's son (bhāgineya) Visnusarman, who is of the Gavismi gotra and thus probably different from the Visnusarman in Grant 1.</item>
<item>Actual text: kuḍivāḍa nāma grāmaḥ vasati kr̥tvā kundūra-grāma-simno dvātrāṅśa-nivarttanaṁ chitvā … sambrattaṁ</item>
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<p>My conclusion as of 1 April 2020: I'll keep the nomenclature introduced by PEM. I cannot form an opinion whether S. Sarma is right to equate Kudivada to Kulivataka. Changed 2 April: but since the plates all come from a village now called Guḍivāḍa, it makes very good sense to assume that they are the same. I also have strong doubts that Ādivāsa is a place name, and even if I renamed this first set to Punnāgapadra, the other two sets would have to use the same internal place name. I find it better to name all three after the findspot.</p>
<p>S.Sarma is right to point out that dating by season (l24) is very unusual at this late time. Another important observation of his is that since an eclipse of the moon must have taken place on a full-moon day, and the date is the 15th day of the last (8th) fortnight of winter, the months must have been reckoned as pūrṇimānta (unless the season change happened in the middle of a month, something I am not sure can be excluded).
<p>S. Sarma is right to point out that dating by season (l24) is very unusual at this late time. Another important observation of his is that since an eclipse of the moon must have taken place on a full-moon day, and the date is the 15th day of the last (8th) fortnight of winter, the months must have been reckoned as pūrṇimānta (unless the season change happened in the middle of a month, something I am not sure can be excluded).
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<p>Edited from the original plates by M. Somasekhara Sarma(<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01"/><citedRange unit="page">129-133</citedRange><citedRange unit="item">A</citedRange></bibl>), with estampages of the plates and photograph of the seal. The present edition by Dániel Balogh is based on a collation of Somasekhara Sarma's edition with his facsimiles.</p>
<p>Reported in <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1945-1946"/><citedRange unit="page">7</citedRange><citedRange unit="appendix">A/1945-1946</citedRange><citedRange unit="item">1</citedRange></bibl> with a brief mention at <bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE1945-1946"/><citedRange>3</citedRange></bibl>. Edited from the original plates by M. Somasekhara Sarma(<bibl rend="omitname"><ptr target="bib:SomasekharaSarma1955-1956_01"/><citedRange unit="page">129-133</citedRange><citedRange unit="item">A</citedRange></bibl>), with estampages of the plates and photograph of the seal. The present edition by Dániel Balogh is based on photographs taken by myself at the Eluru Archaeological Museum in 2023 and estampages kept at the ASI (Mysore), collated with Somasekhara Sarma's edition.</p>
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