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· <title type="alt">Section I. No. 5. (C.P. No. 1 of 1933-34). VIḺAVAṬṬI GRANT OF SIṀHAVARMAN: 10TH YEAR.</title>
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35 <p>This is a copper plate grant of the Pallava king <hi rend="bold">Siṁhavarman,</hi> engraved in archaic characters on five plates strung together by a ring bearing a circular seal with the Pallava emblem of a couchant <hi rend="bold">bull</hi> facing the proper left and another figure resembling an anchor above it. The inscription opens with an invocation to Bhagavat (Vishṇu), like the Māṅgaḷūr and Pīkira grants of the same king. The genealogy of Siṁhavarman, son of Yuva-Mahārāja Vishṇugōpa, is traced from Vīravarman, the great-grandfather. The record is dated in the <hi rend="bold">10th year</hi> of the king in the month of Śrāvaṇa, śu., pañchamī and registers a royal grant of the village <hi rend="bold">Viḻavaṭṭi</hi> in Muṇḍa-rāshṭra with all the taxes due on it, to Vishṇuśarman of the Gautama-gōtra and the Chhandōga-(sūtra), for securing long life, strength of arms and victory to the king.</p>
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· <p>The grant was issued from <hi rend="bold">Paddukkara</hi> which has been identified with Paḍugupāḍu in the Kovur taluk of the Nellore district. The oral order of the king regarding this gift was committed to writing by the <hi rend="italic">Rahasyādhikṛita</hi> (Private Secretary) Achyuta.</p>
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· <p>The village Viḻavaṭṭi in Muṇḍa-rāshṭra has been identified with either Vavvēru where the plates were discovered, or with greater probability, with Viḍavalūru, both situated in the Kovur taluk of the Nellore district.</p>
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· <p>Published<note>See also <hi rend="italic">Journal of the Madras University,</hi> Vol. XII, No. 1.</note> in <hi rend="italic">Epigraphia Indica,</hi> Vol. XXIV, p. 296 ff.</p>
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Published1 in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIV, p. 296 ff.