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 Bhаrati 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 Sruкgavarapukотa Plates of the same king, Dr. R. C. Mazumdar хas 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 Sruкgavarapukотa 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 Ом Svasti [||*] Vijaya-Dеvapurаd=Vаsiштha-vipul-аmala-sakala-chandramasо-
2 vibhrat-bhу-hiranya(нya)-gо-sahasr-аdy-anеka-dаna-dharmm-аbhiratasya щakti-tray-о-
3 panata-rаjya-saмppadasya atyut-аmala-щarach-chandra-chandrik-аvadаtоru-
4 yaщasa[х*] щrи[ma] Mahаrаja-Guнavarmmaнaх аtmajanmanо=ёnеka-guнa-gaн-а-
5 bhyalaмkрtasya щrиmам-Mahаrаja-Prabhajjanavarmmaнaх sуnur=ннa(nna)ya-vinaya-
6 satya-щauch-аchаra-tyаg-audаryya-dаkшiнy-оtssаha-sаtva(sattva)-sappannо sva-bhuja-

Second Plate; First Side.

7 vikram-оpаrjjita-bhуX prajа-hita-ratо paramamаhещvara(rо) mаtа-pi-
8 tр-pаdаnudhyаtо щrи-Kaliкgаdhipatir=Anaм(na)ntavarmmа Tонта[pa]rеs(Tонтаparе) sama-
9 vеtам kuтumbinas=samаjгаpaya[ty=a*]sty=ешaх(шa) pуrvvam=еv=аgrahаraх Kharapuri-
10 madamba-sаmаnyaх karaX(kara)-pradaх tеbhya еva=ssa idаnиm=asmаbhiх puny-аyur-yya-
11 щasаm=abhivрddhayе yаjana-yаjana-yаjan-аdhyayan-[а*]dhyаpana-dаnaX(dаna-)prati-
12 graha-niratеbhyо(bhya) [Аtrа]-gоtra-charaнеbhyо brаhmaнеbhyaх aштащщaka(aштамщaka ?)-saм[khyе]bhya[х]

Second Plate; Second Side.

13 Mah-Ащvayujе savvatsarе Mаgha-mаsa-paurннamаsyа[m*]=udaka-pуrvvaм kрtvа
14 sarvva-kara-parihаraiX parihрtya Kharapuriшa(puri)-madamba-vinirggataм
15 Pattana-bhоga-vinirgataмг(gataг)=cha kрtvа а-chandr-аrka-kаlaX(kаla)-pratiштham=agra-
16 hаraм kрtvа vidhivas=saмpradattaх ity=avagamya grаma-phalam=u-
17 panиya sarvv-аdarенa vachanaX(vachana)-prешaн-оpasthаnaм karttavyam=iti
18 аjга apy=uttara-kаla-bhаvi-rаjabhiщ=cha dharmma-dаnasy=аnupаlanе