124 
M. M. Chakravarti —Two copper-plate 
[No. 2, 
been badly transcribed. Orthography and grammar do not appear to 
have been much attended to. The context is not therefore clear every¬ 
where. I have given a verbatim rendering without attempting revision. 
The inscriptions generally agree till we come to the grant itself. 
They begin with an invocation to £fiva; then follow the praises of 
Kulastauibha-deva, born by a boon from the goddess Stambhe 9 vari, 
and his son or governor (Kodalo P) Kacba Deva. Then come the grants. 
In B, the village Pajar in Ulokhand Sub-Division was bestowed on 
Bhataputra Veluka, a Brahman. In A, the village Kaijkanira in the 
same Sub-Division was bestowed on Bhataputra Madhusodana son of 
Bhata Velu, probably tho aforesaid Velu (-ka), a Brahman of the Vaccha 
Gotra, Ya^ari^aya Pravara of the Yajurveda. The grants are followed 
by the usual ^lokas of the Mahabharata regarding thepunya of land gifts 
and the sin of resuming them. 
Kulastambha-deva is mentioned as having been born in the ^ulki 
Kula (lines 3-4), which cannot but be the Calukj^a line. The posses¬ 
sion of the plates by an Orissa Math, the Telugite sort of name, 
Bhata Velu (alias Veluka), the word Kaliqga (lines 21-22), coupled with 
the absence of any dates or any year of reign (so common in other 
dynasties) point to the Eastern Calukya dynasty. The insignia of the 
boar on the seals are also worth noticing. The Eastern Calukya dynasty 
ruled from about 610 A. D. to 1084 A. D., or for four centuries and 
a half ( 1 ). The letters are certainly not later than the 11th century. 
Kulastambha-deva must therefore be placed before the 11th century 
A. D. 
Beyond this there are no certain data to go on. If Bhata Velu 
be believed to be identical with Veluka, a period of some 12 or 15 years 
might be supposed to have elapsed between the two grants—slight dif¬ 
ferences in the letters (such as «T, T) corroborate this difference of 
time. Then Kulastambha-deva could not have reigned less than 15 or 
20 years. Is Kulastambha a surname of Gunagka Vijayaditya III ( 2 ) 
who reigned 40 or 44 years, and who, according to Sir W. Elliott, con¬ 
quered Kaliqga ? Gunaqka Vijayaditya III (Vijayaditya II of Elliott’s 
list) began to reign in the middle of the ninth century, A. D., a date 
consistent with the old form of the Kutila characters in the inscriptions. 
Kulastambha-deva might also be identified with Kulottuqga Ghoda- 
deva, the celebrated monarch of the Colas, who flourished towards the 
close of the eleventh century A. D. 
Through the kindness of the owner, I send one of the plates to the 
Society for comparison. 
A Sewell’s sketch of the Dynasties of S. India, pp. 13-15. 
2 Do., p. 12. 
