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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TRANSLATION The object of the inscription is to record that (the figures of) the fish, the tortoise, the boar and others were of (i.e., were caused to be carved by) the illustrious Gōllāka, also known as Gauda, the son of the illustrious Bhānu, who was a minister (amātya) of the illustrious Yuvarājadēva. The palaeography of the record indicates that this Yuvarājadēva is the first king of that name who flourished in the first half of the tenth century A.C. The figures referred to are evidently the rock-cut images of the fish, tortoise, boar and other incarnations of Vishnu, which Gōllāka had caused to be carved. Some of them can still be seen near the present inscription.
TRANSLATION These (figures of) the Fish, the Tortoise, the Boar and others are of (i.e., are caused to be carved by) the illustrious Gōllāka, (who is known) by the other name of Gauda, the son of the illustrious Bhānu (and) a minister (amātya) of the illustrious Yuvarājadēva (I). NO. 39 ; PLATE XXXI A THIS inscription, like the preceding one, was discovered in 1938 by Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, then Government Epigraphist for India. It is still unpublished. It is edited here from an excellent estampage which I owe to the kindness of the Government Epigraphist The inscription is at Bāndhōgarh, about 65 miles south by west of Rewa in Vindhya Pradesh. It is incised on a pillar with a broken figure of Garuda to the west of a colossal rock-cut figure of Ādivarāha, placing the left foot on a Nāga figure. The record consists of only two lines, the first of which measures 11’ 10” and the second 2’ 11” long. Several aksharas in the middle of the first line and a few in the second have now become illegible, but some of them can be restored with the help of the preceding epigraph. The average size of the letters is 5”. The characters belong to the Nāgarī alphabet of about the 10th century A. C. They closely resemble those of the preceding inscription. The language is Sanskrit and the record is wholly in prose. The orthography does not call for any remark. The object of the inscription is to record that (the figures of) the Fish, the Tortoise,
the Ādivarāha and Paraśurāma (?) were of (i.e., were caused to be carved by) the
illustrious Gōllāka, the son of the illustrious Bhānu, who was a minister (amātya) of
the illustrious Yuvarājadēva. This Yuvarājadēva was evidently Yuvarājadēva I-
Kēyūravarsha. The figure of Ādivarāha referred to here is plainly the colossal rock-
cut image of the boar incarnation of Vishnu, near which the inscription is incised,
Some of the other figures also can still be seen carved out of rocks in the same place. 1 From an inked estampage.
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