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THE ANTIQUITIES OF MUKHALINGAM. 
here those plates which refer to Anantavarma-Ghodaganga- 
deva or to any king known to belong to his dynasty. The 
information contained in No. 10 was first obtained by me 
from a manuscript copy of it at Vizianagram ; but Dr, 
Hultzsch subsequently sent me a fac-simile of the original 
plates which are now with him, and a paper on which is, I 
am told, shortly to be published. 
(c) I have to submit a different reading of the date of 
the plates of Satyavarman (No. 11 in the table above). 
Lines 34 and 35 of the grant contain the words expressing 
the date, which are Gdngeya-vansa-sa favachhara-sata-traij- 
aika-'panchdsat, &c. The syllables that appear to me like 
tra and yai (in the fac-simile), were read by Dr. Fleet nanh 
and yc. It is not possible to make nam of the fifth letter 
in the last line of the plate ; the dirgha or o-sign does not, 
I think, descend so far as it is there, half enclosing the 
letter as within a bracket, and there is no nasal sign on the 
top of the letter. The curved line appears more like a 
repha mark. The sixth letter has two strokes above it, 
making it yai ; only one would be necessary to make it ye. 
[d] The table given above contains alistof but eleven plates 
issued by eight or nine kings during a period of about 350 
years. Until more information is obtained, nothing definite 
can be stated regarding their relations to one another or 
their relations to the Ganga kings of Choda-gangadh-a' s 
dynasty. The era to which the dates of these plates refer, 
is still unknown ; but there is no need to suppose that there 
is more than one era to which they refer. Most probably 
the era commences with the establishment of the dynasty 
at Kalinganagara or in the 3Iahendmgiri coiaiiry by the 
father or the o-randfather of Indravarmau in the fourth 
century A.D. To attempt an arrangement of the list of 
names we have in a genealogical table is only to draw on 
imagination for what is not supplied by actual facts. 
