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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI (V. 24) Extirpating the hostile Kshatriyas and bestowing the earth on Brāhmanas, he is (as it were) vying with Paraśurāma. (Line 22) And he, the Paramabhattāraka, Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara, the illustrious Yaśahkarnadēva,––the devout worshipper of Mahēśvara, the lord of Trikalinga, who has attained by his arm sovereignty over three kings, (viz.), the lord of horses, the lord of elephants and the lord of men, who meditates on the feet of the Paramabhattāraka, Mahārājādhirāja, and Paramēśvara, the illustrious Vāmadēva,–– having called together the illustrious Mahādēvī, the Mahārājaputra, the Mahāmantrin, the Mahāmātya, the Mahāsāmanta, the Mahāpurōhita, the Mahāpratīhāra, the Mahākshapatalika, the Mahāpramātri, the Mahāśvasādhanika, the Mahābhāndāgārika, (and) the Mahādhyaksha– these and other (officials) and (also) the inhabitants of the village which is to be granted, duly honours, informs and commands them (as follows):â ‘Be it known to you that on (the occasion of) the sankrānti, on Sunday, the fourteenth (tithi) of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the year 823, we have given as a grant for the increase of the religious merit and fame of (Our) mother and farther and of Ourself, this village, Deulā-Pañchēla, situated in the pattalā of Dēvagrāma in the uddēśa (district ?) of Vāsudēva, to the extent of its limits, with its four boundaries well-determined, ––together with land and water, together with mango and madhūka trees, together with its pits and barren land, together with (the right of) egress and ingress, together with mines of salt, together with pasture-lands, together with arid and marshy lands, together with the groves of trees, the gardens of plants, grass and so forth,––to the Brāhmaņa Gangādharaśarman, the son of Chhītapaϊ and grandson of Sīā, who belongs to the Kānva gōtra and the Bahvricha (Rigvēda) sākhā and has the three pravaras Āpnavāna, (Aurva) and Jāmadgnyaâ.
In this matter (this) is the prayer of the donorâ (This charter) has been written by the illustrious Vachchhuka, the writer of religious
documents. No. 57; THIS copper-plate belongs to a set of two plates, the exact provenance of which is not
known.¹ Both the plates were, after discovery, deposited in the Central Museum, Nagpur,
together with an incorrect transcript made by a Pandit of Sihōrā² in the Jabalpur
District of Madhya Pradesh. The second plate of the set was subsequently lost.
The first plate and the old transcript of the second are still preserved in the Museum. The the Bhāradvājā, the Viśvāmitrā or Kauśikā, the Jamadagni and the Vasishthā. The Bhāradvājā, Viśvamitrā and Jamadagni no longer exist, but pilgrims bathe in the sea at the spots where they are supposed to have been. See the Godavari District Gazetteer, p. 6.8 1 Like Kielhorn I have called it the Jabalpur plate, following Sir A. Cunningham (A.S.I.R.,
Vol. IX, p.87). As it records the grant of a village in the Jāulī pattalā it must have been found somewhere
in the Jabalpur District. Hiralal states that is was originally discovered by a Tahsildar of Sihōrā,
the headquarters of the Sihōrā, tahsīl of the Jabalpur District. See his Inscriptions in C.P and Berar, second ed.,
p. 25.
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