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svasti. śrīmatāṁ sakala-bhuvana-saṁstuūyamāna-mānavya-sagotrāṇāṁ hāritī-putrāṇāṁ kauśīikiī-vara-prasāda-labdha-rājyānāṁ mātr̥-gaṇa-paripālitānāṁ svāmi-mahāsena-pādānudhyātānāṁ bhagavan-nārāyaṇa-prasāda-samaāsādita-vara-varāha-lāñchanekṣaṇa-kṣaṇa-vaśīkr̥taārāti-maṇḍalānāṁm aśvamedhāvabhr̥tha-snāna-pavitrīkr̥ta-vapuṣāṁ caḷukyānāṁ kulam alaṁkariṣṇoḥr vvividha-yuddha-labdha-yaśasaḥ śrī-viṣyaṇuvarddhana-mahārājasya poautraḥ para-nr̥pati-makuṭa-taṭa-ghaṭitāneka-manṇi-kiraṇa-rāga-rañjita-caraṇa-yugaḷlaḥasya Aneka-tulā-dhr̥ta-kaḷḷadhauta-dāna-pūta-śarīraḥsya samasta-bhuvanaāśraya-śrī-vijayāditya-mahārājasya priya-tanayaḥ samatisiśayita-pitr̥-guṇaḥ śakti-sampannas samyak-prajā-pālanaḫ parama-brahmaṇyo mātā-pitr̥-pādānudhyātaḥ sarvva-lokāśraya-śrī-viṣṇuvarddhana-mahārājādhirāja-parameśvara-bhaṭṭaārakaḥ pagunavāra-viṣeaye permmañcili nāma grāmae rāṣṭrakuūṭa-pramukhāṁn kuṭiuṁbinaḥ sarvvaān itthaM māĀjñapayati

viditam astu vo ’smābhiḥ poḍegu-vāāstavyāya hiraṇyāakeśya-suūtrāya Agniveśya-gotrāya śaṅkiṭiśarmmaṇaḥ pautrāya veda-vedāśaṁdāṁga-paāragaāya śaṅkiṭiśarmmaṇaḥ putrāya yajana-yajayanādhyaāna-dhyānapasanā Agniśarmmaṇae candra-grahaṇa-nimitte Udaka-pūrvvaṁ krir̥tyatvā dvādaśa-khāṇḍika-vr̥rīhi-mātrāa-kṣetraṁ rācotaraṁ graāma-paścima kṣetraṁ. pūrvvataḥ perdevipaḷḷi-boya-kṣetraṁ. dakṣiṇataḥ kavali-taṭākaM paścimataḥ mahā-patha Uttarataḥ mutrāja-kṣetraṁ. grar̥hastathānaṁ grāma-pūrvva-taḥdakṣiṇa-diśei nikaṭaṁ. pūrvvataḥ gāvadi-taṭaākāaḥ dakṣiṇataḥ raṭṭoḍi-toṇḍa paścimataḥ mahā-pathaḥ Uttarataḥ mahaā-pathaḥ. msarvva-kara-parihaāriaṁ dattāaM

Asya dharmmasya guṇavānn ājñaptir vinayānvitaḥ jayaruūpa Iti khyāto loke ’smiN dharmma-vatsalaḥ

Asyopari na kenacid bhbādhaā karaṇiīyā. karoti yas sa pañca-mahāpātaka-saṁyuktaḥ bhavati. vyāsenāpy uktaM

bahubhir vvasuddhā dattā bahubhiś cānupālitā yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalaM

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Plates alaṁkariṣṇoḥr vvividha-yuddha-labdha-yaśasaḥ alaṁkariṣṇoḥ The possible visarga after ṣṇo is in fact a series of three dots one below the other; the third dot may indicate deletion of a superfluous visarga, or all may serve some other purpose or be accidental. On the basis of related grants, I would expect a compound beginning with svāsi-dhārā- at this point. However, the last character before the break is partially preserved and while alternative readings are possible, vvi is one of the most plausible readings for it (no repha is visible, but one is implied by the gemination of v). It is therefore most likely that the text continued here in the same way as in the Ḻūḷā grant of Viṣṇuvardhana IV, which is practically identical to the present grant except for the executive details. The text I restore here is my emended reading of the Ḻūḷā grant, whose actual diplomatic reading is alaṁkariṣṇor vvividhāyudhālabdhayaśa. The same mistakes may have been present here too. See also the apparatus to the Ḻūḷā grant about my preference of this emendation over vividhāyudha-. para-nr̥pati-makuṭa-taṭa para Again, I restore on the basis of the Ḻūḷā grant. If this was not the exact text here, it must still have been very similar. -yugaḷlaḥasya -yugaḷlaḥ In my opinion this phrase refers to Vijayāditya. -śarīraḥsya -śarīraḥ Again, in my opinion the compound refers to Vijayāditya. samatisiśayita-pitr̥-guṇaḥ sva-mati-sīmita-pitr̥-guṇa- -pālanaḫ Although the text is not strictly incorrect as received, the intent was probably -pālana-paraḫ; the omission may be due to haplography of para. Note the identical omission (also involving an upadhmānīya) in line 11 of the Ḻūḷā grant, where -para is also missing. pagunavāra- paāgunṇavāra- The name of this district occurs in many spelling variants and I prefer not to standardise. permmañcili perummañcili The name was read as permmajīli for the ARIE report. RM's perummañcili is probably a typo or a silent interpretive emendation; his discussion has permmañcili. The reading is certain. grāmae grāma- vāāstavyāya vāstavyāya śaṅkiṭiśarmmaṇaḥ śaṅkidiśarmmaṇaḥ -paāragaāya This word was probably intended to be in the genitive, applying to the donee's father. The same phrase in the Ḻūḷā grant stands after the word putrāya, correctly qualifying the donee. śaṅkiṭiśarmmaṇaḥ śaṅkidiśarmmaṇaḥ yajana-yajayanādhyaāna-dhyānapasanā yajana-yajanādhyāna-dhyāpasana This garbled bit of text has been subject to the attention of a corrector, but the improvement is meagre. It is my impression that the originally inscribed text was yajanayajayadhyanadhyanasana. This was corrected, incrementally or simultaneously at a later time, into yajanayajanādhyānadhyapasana, although the correction at the end of line 17 may be the other way round (pa to na). The intended text must have been yajanayājanādhyayanādhyāpana, possibly conflated with the collocation dhyānopāsana. Restoring yajanayājanādhyayanādhyāpana still leaves the text incomplete; in a footnote, RM emends to yajana-yājanādhyayanādhyāpana-dāna-pratigraha-ṣaṭkarma-niratāya (typos silently corrected here), though perhaps only -niratāya or -ādi-niratāya was intended. In line 18, there is a space with before the binding hole, whereas elsewhere the writing crowds close to the hole's edges. Within this space, there is a faint vertical stroke like a daṇḍa, followed by an even fainter and very short horizontal stroke at head level. There is no indication that anything has been deleted or lost here, but these strokes may be parts of an aborted character. Compare the similarly garbled yajanāyajanadhyānadhyāpana-ṣaṭkarmma-nirataya in the Senavurabu grant of Viṣṇuvardhana IV. -kṣetraṁ -kṣetraḥṁ -taḥdakṣiṇa- -daḥkṣiṇa- -toṇḍa -toṇṭaṁ msarvva- sarvva- -parihaāriaṁ Or the intent may have been parihārīkr̥tya. dattāaM dattā dattā dāattā

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Greetings. The grandson of His Majesty King mahārāja Viṣṇuvardhana III who acquired glory in diverse battlesSee the apparatus to line 6 about this restoration. and who was eager to adorn the lineage of the majestic Caḷukyas—who are of the Mānavya gotra which is praised by the entire world, who are sons of Hāritī, who attained kingship by the grace of Kauśikī’s boon, who are protected by the band of Mothers, who were deliberately appointed to kingship by Lord Mahāsena, to whom the realms of adversaries instantaneously submit at the mere sight of the superior Boar emblem they have acquired by the grace of the divine Nārāyaṇa, and whose bodies have been hallowed through washing in the purificatory ablutions avabhr̥tha of the Aśvamedha sacrifice—; the dear son of His Majesty King mahārāja Vijayāditya I, shelter of the entire universe samasta-bhuvanāśraya, whose pair of feet are tinted by the hues of the rays from the many gems fitted to the surfaces of the crowns of enemy kings,See the apparatus to line 7 about this restoration. whose body has been purified by the donation of gold weighed in many a balance scale:That is, gold weighed on a scale against his body, the tulāpuruṣa mahādāna. namely His Majesty the supremely pious Supreme Lord parameśvara of Emperors mahārājādhirāja and Sovereign bhaṭṭāraka Viṣṇuvardhana IV, shelter of all the world sarva-lokāśraya, who was deliberately appointed as heir by his mother and father, who surpasses the virtues of his father, who is endowed with the three powers, competently protecting his subjects, commands all householders kuṭumbin—including foremost the territorial overseers rāṣṭrakūṭa—who reside in the village named Permmañcili in Pagunavāra district viṣaya as follows.

Let it be known to you that to Agniśarman, a resident of Poḍegu belonging to the Hiraṇyakeśya sūtra and the Agniveśya gotra, engaged in the Brahmanical duties of sacrificing and being commissioned to perform sacrifices, learning and teaching, the grandson of Śaṅkiṭiśarman and son of Śaṅkiṭiśarman who was thoroughly learned in the Veda and Vedāṅga, we have given on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, the donation being sanctified by a libation of water, a field to the measure of i.e. sowable with twelve khāṇḍikas of rice rācotaraṁ.Neither the meaning of this word, nor its relation to the adjacent sentences, is clear to me. The purport maybe something similar to rāja-mānena; cf. Evañ catur-avadhi-madhya-gata-rāca-māṇa-dvādaśa-gvaṇḍi-godrava-bija-vāpa-paripramāna-kṣetraḥ, the received reading in the Pamiḍimukkala plates (set 1) of Viṣṇuvardhana II, year 3. I assume that the following words give the location of the field relative to the village. The field is to the west of the village. Its boundaries are to the east, the field of Perdevipaḷḷi-boya; to the south, the Kavali tank taṭāka; to the west, the highway; to the north, the mutrāja field.I do not understand the word mutrāja. Also, a homestead plot nearby in the southeastern direction of the village. Its boundaries are to the east, the Gāvadi tank taṭāka; to the south, the toṇḍa of the Raṭṭoḍi; to the west, the highway; to the north, the highway. Exempt from all taxes.

The virtuous and disciplined executor ājñapti of this provision dharma is known in this world as Jayarūpa and is fond of lawfulness dharma.

Let no-one pose an obstacle to the enjoyment of rights over it. He who does so shall be conjoined with the five great sins. Vyāsa too has said:

Many kings have granted land, and many have preserved it as formerly granted. Whosoever at any time owns the land, the fruit reward accrued of granting it belongs to him at that time.