The Indian Analyst
 

South Indian Inscriptions

 
No. Source Dynasty King Date

Language
and Alphabet

Remarks
  PAKISTAN          
31

Curator, Dacca Museum. Through the Government Epigraphist for India. Findspot─Dhullā.

 

Chandra Śrichandra

Year 35, Jyēshṭha 25

Sanskrit, Gauḍīya

Issued from Vikramapura. Records a grant of land in the localities called (1) Dūrvvāpattra in Vallīmuṇḍā-maṇḍala situated in Khediravallī-vishaya, (2) Loṇiyājoḍā-prastara, (3) Tivaravillē, (4) Parkaḍīmuṇḍā in Yōlā-maṇḍala in Ikkaḍāsī-vishaya and (5) Mulapatrā, by the king to the Śāntivārika Vyāsagaṅgaśarmman of the Vārddhakanśika gōtra on the occasion of the king’s performance of adbhuta śānti during the hōma-chatushṭaya. Noticed in Inscriptions of Bengal, Vol. III, pp. 165 ff. In characters of about the 10th century A.D.

 

32

Do. Findspot­─Madanpur, Dacca District.

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Year 46, Mārgaśīrsha 28.

Do.

Issued from Vikramapura. Records a grant of rent-free land in Vaṅgasāgara-saṁbhāṇḍāriyaka in Yōlā-maṇḍala situated in Puṇḍrabhukti to a Brāhmaṇa named Śukradēva, made by the king in the name of Buddhabhaṭṭāraka. In characters of about the 10th century A.D. Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, pp. 51 ff. and Plate.

33

Do. Findspot─Rāmpāl, Dacca District

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Records a grant of rent-free land in the village of Nēhakāshṭhi in Nānya-maṇḍala in Puṇḍra-bhukti made by the king to the Śāntivārika Brāhmaṇa Pītavāsaguptaśarman of the Śāṇḍilya gōtra. Published in Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, pp. 136 ff.

34

Do. Findspot─Ghughrāhāṭī, Faridpur District.

…. Samāchāradēva

Year 14, Kārttika 2

Sanskrit, Northern Alphabet.

Records a grant of land in the village of Vyāghrachōraka made by the local authorities to a Brāhmaṇa named Supratīkasvāmin, Ibid., Vol. XVIII, pp. 74 ff. In characters of about the sixth century A.D.

 

35 Do. Findspot─Belavā, Dacca District Varman Bhōja varman

Year 5, Śrāvaṇa 14.

Sanskrit, Gauḍīya

Issued from Vikramapura. Records a grant of land in the village of Upyalikā situated in the Kauśāmbī-ashṭagachha khaṇḍala in Adhaḥpattana-maṇḍala in Pauṇḍra-bhukti, made by the king in favour of a Brāhmaṇa named Rāma dēvaśarman of the Sāvarṇa gōtra, who was a resident of Siddhala in North Rāḍhā (although his family hailed from Madhyadēśa) and was in charge of the king’s Śāntyāgāra. Ibid., Vol. XII, pp. 37 ff. and Plate.

 

36

Do. Findspot─Gunaighar, Tippera District.

Guptā Vainyagupta

Gupta year, 188 in symbols and words, Pausha 24.

Sanskrit, Northern Alphabet.

Issued from Krīpura. Records a grant of land made by the king at the instance of his vassal Mahārāja Rudradatta in favour of a Buddhist monk named Āchārya Śāntidēva in a Vihāra dedicated to Avalōkitēśvara. The dūtaka of the grant is Mahāsāmanta Mahārāja Vijayasēna. Published in Ind. Hist. Quart. Vol. VI, pp. 45 ff. and Plate.

 

37

Do. Findspot─ Govindapur, 24-Par-ganas District.

Sēna Lakshmaṇasēna Year 2 Sanskrit, Gauḍīya

Issued from Vikramapura. Records a grant of the village of Viḍḍāraśāsana situated in Vētaḍḍa-chaturaka in Paśchi-


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