100 
THE ANTIQUITIES OF MUKHALIN^AM, 
Vishnusarman, &c., brothers inhabiting Ealing anagar a , let 
them enjoy it freely (1. 14). 
(c7) The boundaries of the village are given up to line 19. 
(e) Some benedictive and imprecatory verses, and one or 
two lines requesting future rulers to continue the gift. 
if) Written (composed) by Pallavachandrn , son of 
Matrichandra, under the orders of the king-, in the presence 
of the great Sabara-Nandisarman. 
(g) In the year 183 of the increasing successful reign 
(expressed in words and decimal figures), on the 27th day 
of the month of Srdvana. 
[h] Engraved by Sarvachandra, son of Khandichandra- 
bhogika. 
3. — Vajrahasta's plates. 
{a) This is a set of three plates^ each 8|- ins. by ins. 
joined by a ring which has a seal, 1^ in. in diameter, bear- 
ing the figures of a bull couchant, the moon above, and a 
floral device below it ; between which and the bull are some 
characters, perhaps " sri hara " The language in 
which the inscription is composed, is Sanskrit, but very 
faulty. Leaving out of account trifling errors, from which 
very few inscriptions are free, the genei-al foru] in which the 
grant is recorded, is in the beginning of it quite irregular. 
(b) As regards characters, it may be said that the plate 
is a confusion, an amazing jumble of various types of difi'er- 
ent periods, a curious specimen of tlie writing of a transi- 
tional period in this part of the country where the northern 
and the southern alphabets seem to have fought for supre- 
macy Chalukya characters from the oldest to the latest, 
«arly Ndgari as given in Dr. Buruell's plate No. XXII. as 
well as modern Nagari are all represented in it. Three 
kinds of vi, s, j. ij, and h and two kinds of l\ h, /), v, r, g, ch 
and «, among others are noticeable. 
