JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 



No. III.— 1870. 



Extracts from letters addressed by the Rev. T. Foulkes, Chaplain of 

 Vepery, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Fort St. George, dated 

 29th May, and 26th June, 1869, regardiny three sets of Copper 

 Sasanams discovered in the Vizagapatam Districts* 



11 1 have the honor to return the three sets of copper-plates and 

 the package of printed impressions, together with the letters of the 

 Collectors of Vizagapatam and Nellore, which were sent to me with 

 that memorandum, and to send herewith, a translation, of the oldest 

 of the three copper-plate inscriptions which accompanied that letter. 

 11 In referring to these copper-plate sets in this letter, I will call 

 them No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, in the order of their date. 



" No. 1, which may be distinguished by its thinner plates, and 



the greater boldness of the characters inscribed on them, is a grant 



of a village called Kalvakonda, in the district of Dimila, made by 



! Vishnu Vardhana Maharaja to two brahman brothers, Vishnu 



! Sharmma and Madhava Sharmma, to be converted into a brahman 



| settlement, in commemoration of an eclipse of the moon. 



* Published in the Journal by order of the Council. Impressions taken 

 ' from the three Sasanams described by the Eev. Mr. Foulkes, as also a large 

 I set of impressions of other copper Sasanams in the Central Museum, Madras, 

 ! have been received from the Madras Government through the Government of 

 i India, and are now preserved in the Society's Library. The Editor. 



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