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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TRANSLATION Om ! [This figure of Haladhara5(?) is] of (i.e., is caused to be carved by) the illustrious Gollaka, [named] . . ⦠. , the son of the illustrious Bhanu, who is a minister of the illustrious Yuvarajadeva (I). . NO. 42 ; THIS inscription is engraved on a rectangular sunken panel surrounded by a plain border of a large slab of sand-stone. It was discovered at Kārītalāi (lat. 240 3' North, long. 800 46' East), a village in the Murwārā tahsil of the Jabalpur District in Madhya Pradesh. The stone, which was first removed to the Jabalpur Museum, is now deposited in the Central Museum, Nagpur. General Cunningham first published a short account6 of the contents of the inscription in his Archaeological Survey of India Reports, Vol. IX, p. 81. The record was subsequently edited, without any lithograph or translation, by Prof. Kielhorn in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 174 ff. It is edited here from the original stone and ink impressions taken under my supervision.
The inscription is much mutilated. It has lost a considerable portion at the top. Again, a large piece, measuring 1' broad by 1' 8" high, has been broken off at the lower proper right corner, and a small one, 5" broad by 3" high, has been lost at the upper proper left corner. Besides, some letters have been lost in two cracks, of which the longer one cuts inscription transversely. The cracks seem to have widened in the process of removing the heavy stone from Jabalpur to Nagpur and some letters, which were clear in the rubbing supplied to Dr. Kielhorn, have since disappeared.7 The preserved portion of the inscription covers a space 3' 8" broad by 4' 3½" high, and consists of thirty-four lines, of which the first thirty-one are inscribed on the sunken panel of the slab, and the last three on the stone border below. The average size of the letters is 1', except in 1.32, which is engraved on the inside edge of the border, and in which the letters are smaller, being only .6" in height. The characters are of the Nāgarī alphabet of about the 10th century A.C. They
are well-formed and deeply engraved. In some cases the aksharas which were inadvertently omitted at first, were incised subsequently below the line, see ya of yad-antahpurē,
14 and ka of –kalaśa-, 1.20 ; while in others the wrong aksharas and strokes have been 1 From an inked estampage.
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