THE ANTIQUITIES OF. MUKHALINGAM. 
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vdtaka, ^ the very place ia which the present inscription is 
to be seen. The name 'Trillingi' probably came to be 
applied to the village on account of the people who spoke 
the Trilingi language. Though its speakers have reduced 
the word to ' Telagu/ the Uriyas still use a fuller form 
' Telingi '; and Telingi or TeligP is now the actual name 
of the village, with ' pmta' or 'ijeta'''' simply meaning a 
suburb, added to it. There must have been in this village 
a regular temple of which the floor and the lingu. or idol 
alone are now visible. It is to this idol in all probability 
that Ghodaganga made the grant referred to in the inscrip- 
tion, in A.D. 1145, about nine years after he had obtained 
possession of that village by the favour of his master and 
king. At a short distance from Teligipenta is still in ex- 
istence a village named GJuxlapuram, probably called after 
Ghodagariga. 
31 . (X.) Gopper -plate inscriptions. I was told at Mukha- 
lingam that, about eight years ago, a copper-plate inscription 
had been discovered in a field there and sent to the Deputy 
Tahsildar of Parlakimedi. But Mr. Sewell's Lists do not 
mention any inscription belonging to this village. Having 
before heard that in some of the villages near Mukhalingam 
two or three plates had beeu discovered, I made inquiries for 
them and succeeded in getting one set of plates from a 
Brahman landlord of Achyutapuram, who had some eight 
years ago obtained it from his ryot. I took a copy of it and 
returned it to the owner who could not make up his mind 
to part with it on any terms. The second of the inscrip- 
tions dealt with below has [an unfortunate history. It is, 
1 See Plate No. 180, Ind. Antiq. Vol. XVIII. The reading tittilingi in 
line 32 is not correct. The alternative reading proposed in the foot note 
is to be substituted. 
- An ardhdnusvara is heard between /(' andgi when it is pronounced. 
^ The vulgar uses, in pronouncing this word, an urdhunusrrira between 
the two syllables, but the learned use it only in writing. 
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