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Map No. and at p. 12 Dr. Burnell includes these 



with similar short inscriptions at Amara- 

 vati as " written in a character precisely 

 similar to that used in the cave inscrip- 

 tions near Bomhay," which latter belong 

 to the first century B.C. and the first and 

 second A.D. 



(24). 2. The Kamaraja Pallavesvara monolithic 

 shrine inscription (No. 24). This is a 

 Sanskrit inscription of ten or twelve lines 

 in the Pallava character, put at about 700 

 A.D. by Dr. Burnell (S.I.P., p. 38). 

 Palseographically it is later than that of 

 the southernmost Ratha (No. 43), and of 

 about the same age or rather older than 

 that of Atiranacanda Pallava (to follow). 

 It is a dedicatory invocation to Siva as 

 " Sambhu " in such terms as were only 

 possible after Sankaracharya's development 

 of the Yedanta (650 to 700 A.D.), and in 

 praise of the Pallava king, only possible 

 prior to the Cola conquest of Tondainadu, 

 which is believed to have occurred in the 

 eighth century. At the foot of the inscrip- 

 tion is the outline of a house or temple 

 with a ridge roof and Kalasa ornaments. 

 It is shown on Plate XIY of Carr with a 

 linga (?) in front of an altar, under a 

 rosette. It may be intended to represent 

 the temple on which it is engraved, men- 

 tioned in the inscription as " this abode of 

 Sambhu." A transliteration of this in- 

 scription is given in note 4, p. 38, S.I. P., 

 (1878). 



(58). 3. The Atiranacamia Pallava inscription. This 



