INSCRIPTIONS. 



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II. — SANSKRIT AND KANAEESE COPPER SASANAMS 

 ENGEAVED IN NANDINAGAEI CHAEAOTEES 

 DUG UP NEAE WAN DEW ASH . 



These two Sasananis were dug up near Wandewash by 

 Colonel Branfill, who kindly sent them to me for translation. 



The Sasanams which are published here have neither been 

 previously printed nor translated. In some respects they 

 resemble those found in the collections made by Colebrooke 

 and Rice. 1 Our two Sasanams are on three copper-plates, 

 united by a copper ring with a Vdmana seal, the old emblem 

 of the Vidyanagara kings. The plates are tablet-shaped, in 

 the middle 9 inches, on the sides 1\ inches long and 5^ inches 

 broad. 



The first Sasanam is on two plates, one of which is engraved 

 on one and the other on both sides, 28 lines with 28 to 30 

 letters a line are on the first two sides and the third side has 

 15 lines with the signature of Tryambaka in Telugu. The 

 second Sasanam is on one plate with 28 lines on each side. 

 Text of the First Sasanam. 



II W1^T>?rTC" W II 

 IPTF^TW q^TSTWTf II \ II 



^^ra^^TPT «&5N*eraqgfa: II ^ I! 



c\ w ^ 



8T*SH q-?Rm^RI^TT T%THm: II ^ II 



1 Compare about a similar Sasanam H. J. Colebrooke ' ' On Ancient Monuments 

 containing Sanskrit inscriptions " (Asiatic Researches, IX, pp.398 — 444, 

 reprinted in Professor E. B. Cowell's Edition of Colebrooke's Miscellaneous 

 Essays, II, pp. 213 — 255, see pp. 227 — 235) ; and Letvis Rice in his" Mysore 

 Inscriptions," Bangalore, 1879, pp. 277—280. The translation of Nos. 149 

 and 150 in the Mysore Inscriptions is neither literal nor complete. 



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