16. Siripuram plates
EI, XXIV, No.9, 47-52 (G. V. Srinivasa Rao), IO, II, I, 31-34 (S.Rajaguru).

These plates were secured for examination by the Superintendent for Epigraphy from Mr. Manda Narasimham Pantulu of Arasavilli, teacher, Board High School at Chicacole in the Vizagapatam District. They are stated to have been discovered while digging a tank at Siripuram, a village near Chicacole. They have since been purchased by the Government Museum, Madras. Mr. Narasimham has published the inscription on the plates in the Telugu Monthly Journal Bhàrati for September 1931 and has also reviewed its contents in Vol. VIII of the Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Socieiy (p. 153), but the interpretation of the record by him leaves much to be desired. It is now re-edited here from ink-impressions of the plates kindly supplied to me by the Superintendent for Epigraphy. In his article in this Journal (EI, Vol. XXIII, pp. 56 ff.) on the Sruêgavarapukîòa Plates of the same king, Dr. R. C. Mazumdar õas also considered this inscription.
The grant should have consisted of three oblong copper plates of which the last is now missing. They measure 6 7/8" in length and 2 1/2" in breadth, and have their rims slightly raised all round to protect the writing which is incised on the inner side of the first plate and on both sides of the second. They are strung together by a ring about 4" in diameter which passes through a hole about 1/2" in diameter near the proper right margin of the plates. The ends of this ring are soldered into the bottom of an oval seal of which the rim bears on one side a slight projection. The surface of the seal which measures 1 1/2" by 1 1/4" is completely worn out, so that the emblem or legend that should have been engraved thereon is lost, but judging from the seal of the Sruêgavarapukîòa Plates, we may suppose that it should have contained the figure in relief of a conch. The two plates with the ring and the seal weigh 70 tolas. (SR)

TEXT. (C.P. No. 1 of 1931-32.)

First Plate.

1 Îì Svasti [||*] Vijaya-Dåvapuràd=Vàsiøòha-vipul-àmala-sakala-chandramasî-
2 vibhrat-bhó-hiranya(íya)-gî-sahasr-àdy-anåka-dàna-dharmm-àbhiratasya ùakti-tray-î-
3 panata-ràjya-saìppadasya atyut-àmala-ùarach-chandra-chandrik-àvadàtîru-
4 yaùasa[õ*] ùrè[ma] Mahàràja-Guíavarmmaíaõ àtmajanmanî=¸nåka-guía-gaí-à-
5 bhyalaìkðtasya ùrèmàì-Mahàràja-Prabhajjanavarmmaíaõ sónur=íía(nna)ya-vinaya-
6 satya-ùauch-àchàra-tyàg-audàryya-dàkøiíy-îtssàha-sàtva(sattva)-sappannî sva-bhuja-

Second Plate; First Side.

7 vikram-îpàrjjita-bhóX prajà-hita-ratî paramamàhåùvara(rî) màtà-pi-
8 tð-pàdànudhyàtî ùrè-Kaliêgàdhipatir=Anaì(na)ntavarmmà Tîíòà[pa]rås(Tîíòàparå) sama-
9 våtàì kuòumbinas=samàjãàpaya[ty=a*]sty=åøaõ(øa) pórvvam=åv=àgrahàraõ Kharapuri-
10 madamba-sàmànyaõ karaX(kara)-pradaõ tåbhya åva=ssa idànèm=asmàbhiõ puny-àyur-yya-
11 ùasàm=abhivðddhayå yàjana-yàjana-yàjan-àdhyayan-[à*]dhyàpana-dànaX(dàna-)prati-
12 graha-niratåbhyî(bhya) [Àtrà]-gîtra-charaíåbhyî bràhmaíåbhyaõ aøòàùùaka(aøòàìùaka ?)-saì[khyå]bhya[õ]

Second Plate; Second Side.

13 Mah-Àùvayujå savvatsarå Màgha-màsa-paurííamàsyà[m*]=udaka-pórvvaì kðtvà
14 sarvva-kara-parihàraiX parihðtya Kharapuriøa(puri)-madamba-vinirggataì
15 Pattana-bhîga-vinirgataìã(gataã)=cha kðtvà à-chandr-àrka-kàlaX(kàla)-pratiøòham=agra-
16 hàraì kðtvà vidhivas=saìpradattaõ ity=avagamya gràma-phalam=u-
17 panèya sarvv-àdaråía vachanaX(vachana)-pråøaí-îpasthànaì karttavyam=iti
18 àjãà apy=uttara-kàla-bhàvi-ràjabhiù=cha dharmma-dànasy=ànupàlanå