155(33). Amaràvatè buddhist stone inscription. (No. 536 of 1907).

TEXT.

1 Nutu-uparakasa
2 Koäimuòikasa
3 tiíi suchiyo
4 dànaì

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'Three rail bars are the gifts of the uparaka Nutu of Kîäimuòi.' (RCh)

(On another corner of the stone is engraved the figure 5. U in line 1 is evidently a correction, as the unnecessary stroke below it shows. Uparaka may be the Sanskrit word uparika of the later inscriptions, which is the title of an officer. Telugu uppara is the name of a caste of tank- and well-diggers.
Rao Sahib H. Krishna Sastri informs me that near Erode on the South Indian Railway there is a village called Koäumuäi which finds mention in an early Tamil work (Dåvàram). - RCh.)