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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TEXT1
TRANSLATION Hail! During the victorious reign of the Bhaţţārakaprabha, the illustrious Karņa, Hēmadōpalī Gōpī (has gone) to the holy world, Malōrāgrāja (has gone) to the holy world, the Rāut Taīpa Śuvashţhala (has gone) to the holy world, (and) Kaidēhī (has gone) to the holy world. (This record) was put up by Janāda (Janārdana?).
No. 56; PLATE XLV THESE plates were found enclosed in a large stone chest at Khairhā,8 a village in Vindhya Pradesh, about eight miles south-west of the Burhar railway station on the KatniBilaspur Branch of the Bengal Nagpur Railway. They were published, with a lithograph and a translation, by Rai Bahadur Hiralal in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XII, pp. 205 ff. They are edited here from excellent ink-impressions kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist for India They are two copper-plates, each measuring 1' 6.8" in breadth and 1' 1.5" in height. They were held together by a stout ring, passing through a hole about. 8" in diameter at the top of each plate. Its ends were not originally soldered. To the ring is attached a bellshaped seal, on the counter-sunk circular surface of which appears in relief a rudely executed figure of Lakshmī attended by an elephant on eigher side, pouring water on her head. Below this is the legend Śrīmad-Yasahkarņņadēvah in a single line across the diameter. At the bottom of all is the figure of the couchant Nandī facing proper right, with an incense-pot on either side. The total weight of the plates and the seal is 14 seers and 25 tolas.
The inscription is in a state of excellent preservation. There are forty-four lines in
all, of which twenty-one are written on the inner side of the first plate, and the remaining
twenty-three on that of the second. The average size of the letters is 5". The characters
are of the Nāgarī alphabet. Attention may be drawn to the two forms of the initial i─
the older one in Chhītapaï-, 1.30 and the later one in iva, 1.6, the sign of the rare li which
appears as a subscript letter in –klipta-, 1.16, and the medial u which is added to the left
limb of j in jugupsatē, 1.8 and to the right side of the vertical of y in –nā many=udgamam,
1.16. The sign of avagraha occurs in 11.11, 15 and 39, and a vertical dash at te end of 1.27.
In other respects the characters resemble those of the Goharwa plates of Karna. |
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