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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TEWAR STONE INSCRIPTION OF GAYAKARNA : YEAR 902 (For a transcript of the second plate which has been last, see Appendix, No. 2, bellow.) Om ! Adoration to Brahman ! No. 58; THE slab of black stone which bears the subjoined inscription, was found at Tewar, a village about 6 miles to the west of Jabalpur, the headquarters of the Jabalpur District of Madhya Pradesh. The inscription was edited, without any translation or lithograph, by Dr. Kielhorn in the Indian Antiquary, Volume XVIII, pp. 209 ff. It is edited here from the original stone which is deposited in the Central Museum, Nagpur.
The record, consisting of twenty-two lines, is inscribed on the countersunk surface of the stone surrounded by a plain border. The writing covers a space measuring 12.7” in breadth and 14.7’’ in height, and is in a state of good preservation except in the middle of lines 9-13 where a few aksharas have become somewhat indistinct owing to the wearing away of the inscribed surface.³ The size of the letters varies between .4” and .5.” The characters are Nāgari. T and bh are, in some places, not clearly distinguishable from n, see, e.g., sūnunā 1.5 and Bhāvabrahma-, 1.8; ś has three different forms see, e.g., śriyē=, 1.1,= samyaminaś=cha, 1.16 and śrī-Dharaņīdharō=, 1.18; the left limb of dh is seen fully developed in some cases, see, e.g., bhikshā-dhanēna, 1.17, Mahīdharab, 1.20 etc. The language is Sanskrit. With the exception of the opening ōm namah Sivāya, the record is metrically composed throughout. There are eighteen verses in all, none of which is numbered. As regards orthography, we may notice the doubling of the consonant following r and preceding v, see Karņņa-, 1.3, and Pritthvīdharas=, 1.18; the use of the sign for v to denote b except in three cases, viz. –muktir=bbhavēt, 1.16, =abdhib, 1.19 and –yugal- ābda-, 11. 20-1 ; and the substitution of the dental s for the palatal ś in –narēsvarō=, 11.3-4, navasata-, 1.20. After two customary verses in praise of Śiva and the moon, the mythical ancestor.
of the Kalachuris, the inscription mentions the king Karna, his son Yaśahkarna and
grandson Gayākarna4, and expresses the wish that Gayākarna, together with his son,
the crown-prince Narasimha, would rule the earth to end of the world. The name
Of Gayākarna as the reigning king occurs again in connection with the date in 1.21.
The object of the inscription is to record that Bhāvabrahman, who was a disciple of 1Metre : Anushţubh.
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