R. Chanda, EI, XV. No. 13. Some unpublished Amaravati inscriptions.

Since the publication of Burgess's Archeological Survey of Southern India, Vol. 1, in 1887, no fresh inscriptions discovered at the site of the Amarāvatč stópa have appeared with plates, though the inscriptions published in that work have been re-examined and corrected by Franke (ZDMG., 1896), and all Amarāvatč inscriptions published in it and in earlier works have been revised and listed by Professor Luders in his List of Brāhmč Inscriptions (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, Appendix), After 1887 the site of the Amarāvatč stópa was thrice excavated by Mr. Bea, late Superintendent of Archeology, Southern Circle, in 1888, 1889 and 1905-06. The inscriptions on marbles removed from the site of Amarāvatč after the excavation of 1905-06 to the Government Museum, Madras, were copied by Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri, Assistant Archeological Superintendent for Epigraphy, in 1907. Inscriptions on marbles removed before 1906 and lying in the cellars of the same institution were copied by Mr. Venkoba Rao, Senior Assistant to the Assistant Archeological Superintendent for Epigraphy in 1913. I edit the subjoined inscriptions from these impressions under the direction and with the kind assistance of Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri and after comparing the readings with the stones (as far as they are now available), being enabled to do so by the courtesy of Dr. Henderson, Superintendent of the Madras Government Museum. The collection of impressions made in 1907 is represented by Nos. 3-20, 33-45 and 49-52, and that of 1913 by the rest, No. 58 has been copied by me from a stone evidently also removed from Amarāvatč and not copied before.

The number within brackets is from the Annual Report of the Assistant Archeological Superintendent for Epigraphy.