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THE ANTIQUITIES OP MUKHALINGAM. 
I believe, one of the sets of plates which Mr. Grahame, C.S. 
purchased at Chicacole ; but, having been mislaid, it was 
not presented with the rest to the Madras Museum. As I 
am known to be interested in these inscriptions, the head 
clerk of the Principal Assistant Collector's office gave me 
information of its existence there and kindly permitted me 
to take a copy of it. The third sets of plates was bought at 
my instance by Sri Padmanabha Narayanadeva, brother of 
the Parlakimedi Zamindar whom I persuaded to make a 
present of it to the Maiiras Museum. Dr. Hultzsch wrote 
to me for a loan of these plates and also requested the 
Collector to obtain them from me. I gave information to 
the Collector as to where the original plates could be had, 
as I had only copies of them with me. Dr. Hultzsch will 
have obtained them by ^'his time and will likely publish 
them with his notes. But, having first brought them to 
light and having also deciphered them, T may be allowed 
to publish my own remarks on them, which may be taken 
for what they are worth. 
1. — Indkavarman's Plates. 
32. This is a set of three plates, each about 5| inches 
by 2 inches, strung together by a ring with a seal on it, 
worn out and not recognisable. The letters are engraved 
deep enough and legible. The language is Sanskrit 
throughout ; and, except the usual benedictive and impreca- 
tory verses and the lines containing the writer's name on the 
third plate, the text is in prose. From the predominance 
of the Eastern Chalukya characters (of A.D. 680 according 
to Burnell's Plate No. 5 ; vide his South-Indian Palceo- 
grajihii) it may be inferred that the present inscription 
belongs to the seventh century. On historical as well as 
palaHigraphical grounds, Dr. Fleet is inclined to refer In- 
dravarvum to aboitt Saka 579-582 (^A.D. (357-58 to 660-61). 
