Journal of the University of Bombay [History Economics and Sociology Number No. 32] New Series January 1948

by examining the setting of the various :ernes and of the stage in the first and second parts of the drama "JOURNAL OP THE UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY But what strikes a student of history in regard to the continuity of the historical action is the suddenness with which the political plot is ushered in Act IV. [...] Although we confess that the use of Prakrit was as the Sutrdhitra rightly says quite in keeping with the convention of the stage yet it is permissible to assume that from the middle of the IV Act when the underplot is introduced the use of Prakrit is on the whole more plentful than in the first three acts of the drama. [...] They may be examined from the following seven points of view:—the find-spots; the name designation and duties of the donor; the dates of the gifts; the donees their names attainments and religion; the name nature and location of the gift; the witnesses; and the names and designation of the scribes who engraved the two docments. [...] The Manne plates were found in the possession of a.person called Sälvanta Rttdrappa the village of Marine itself in the Nelamangala täluka of the Mysore State; while the Altar plates were found in the possession of a man called Avalakondappa in the village of Hospet in the Jangamakote hobli. [...] which had been begun by king Sadraka Sivamara I. The evidence of the above epigraphs may be divided under the following heads : the liberality the nature of adminitration the learning the knowledge of fine arts the greatness as a poet the knowledge of logic the mastery of the theory and practice of drama and the literary works of king givamdra II.