Coorg Inscriptions, (Revised Edition), Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

B. Lewis Rice

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ISBN 10: 1331892546 ISBN 13: 9781331892540

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Coorg Inscriptions, (Revised Edition), Vol. 1

Curiously enough, the first discovery of this important line of kings, who were the rulers of Mysore for nearly the whole of the first millennium of the Christian era, but whose very name had dropped into oblivion, was due to the copper plates (cg 1) found in the treasury at Mercara 2. As to when or by whom they were placed there no trace has been found, and they relate, not to any place in Coorg, but to one in Mysore. They were brought to the notice of Dr. Burgess by Mr. Graeter, and are now deposited in the Lutheran Mission Museum at Basle in Switzerland. Much controversy arose as to their date, the year 388 being given in the plates without mention of any era. By some they were accepted as one of the earliest unquestionable inscriptions discovered in India, whilst others imagined they might be forgeries. The full and abundant information that has since come to light in the inscriptions obtained by me from all parts of Mysore, some of which were published at the time in the Indian Antz'guary or other works, and all of which appear in full in the volumes of my Epzlqrapbz'a Camatz'ca, enables us to maintain the credibility of the Mercara plates. The date contained in them, as regards the year, is correct according to the Saka era, nor is this belied by the palaeography 3. The language of the main portion is Sanskrit, but the details of the grant are in Hair; Kannada.

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Excerpt from Coorg Inscriptions, (Revised Edition), Vol. 1 Following on my decipherment and publication of the Mercara plates in 1872, I discovered the Ganga inscriptions Nos. 4 and 5, and some copies, mostly imperfect, of various inscriptions in Coorg were furnished to me by Government in the time of Colonel Hill with a view to their being translated. But owing to all my spare time being taken up with numerous other important engagements and absence on duty in Calcutta, it was not till 1886 that the first edition of this work was issued. Though the light thus thrown upon the early history of the country was valuable as far as it went, I could not but regret, when recently called upon to compile the Gazetteer of Coorg for the new Imperial Gazetteer of India, the absence of fuller and more satisfactory information on the subject. Under the conviction that something additional might probably be found in the way of epigraphic records, I deputed two of my Archaeologieal Assistants, with the approval of the Commissioner (Mr. Lionel Davidson), to make inquiries. The result fully justified my expectation. For copies of a number of inscriptions previously unknown were obtained, which enabled the filling up of the blanks hitherto existing in the past history. These were published as supplements to the Tumkur and Bangalore volumes (xii and ix) of my Epigraphia Carnatica. Four more have now been added of which notice was received from Mr, L. T. Harris. But the Government of India having been pleased, on the application of the Chief Commissioner, the Hon'ble Mr. S M. Fraser, to sanction the issue of a revised edition of the work, brought up to date, the opportunity has been taken of collecting all belonging to Coorg, now more than trebled in number, into one volume in this edition, and publishing them on the same plan as in the remaining volumes of the series, of which this forms the first. For the present edition I have received much assistance from the impressions procured fo

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331892546
• ISBN 13: 9781331892540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159