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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI The village Vadyavā which was probably situated in the vicinity of Lāl-Pahād Canot now be traced. TEXT1
TRANSLATION Success ! Hail ! śrī ! (There reigns) the Paramabhaţţāraka, Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara, the illustrious and venerable Narasimhadēva, the devout worshipper of Mahēśvara, the lord of Trikaliñga, who by his own arm has acquired the suzerainty over the three kings, (viz.,) the lord of the horses, the lord of elephants and the lord of men, and who meditates on the feet of the Paramabhaţţāraka, Mahārājādhirāja and Paramēśvara, the illustrious Vamadeva(There has been constructed ) ( this) channel of Ballaladevaka, the son of the great prince, the illustrious Kayavāditya.7 (Line 7) (In) the year 909, (the month) śrāvana (and) the bright (fortnight), on The (lunar) day 5, on Wednesday. (L. 8) The Rāuta, the illustrious Ballāladēva
NO. 62 ; âTHIS inscription together with two others is on a block of stone, which is about
a hundred yards from a large cave, somewhere near the foot of the Alha-Ghāţ, “one
of the natural passes of the Vindhya hills by which the Tons river finds its way
from the table-land of Rewa to the plain of the Ganges.” . . . . It was dis-
covered in 1883-84 by Sir A. Cunningham by whom a transcript of the text, accompanied
by a photo-lithograph was published in the Archaological Survey of India Reports, VO1. XXXI,
p. 115 and Plate xxviii’8 Its date was next referred to by Dr. Kielhorn in connection
with the epoch of the Kalachuri era in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVII, p. 218. The record
was finally edited, without any translation or facsimile, by the same scholar in the Indian
Antiquary, Vo1. XVIII, pp. 213 f. It is edited here from inked estampages kindly
Supplied by the Superintendent of Archaeological Survey, Central Circle, Patna. 1From inked estampages supplied by the Director General of Archaeology. CORPUS INCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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