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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI of) egress and ingress, with fertile1 marshy lands, with tree-groves, plant-gardens, grass and so forth, with rivers and hills, with the (royal) share (of produce), taxes, (the cess on) pravanis,2 vāda, grazing tax, liquor tax, kāmata, the cess on visēnimā,3 the tax levied for Pattakilas4---to the Brāhmans, the illustrious Pandita Dēlhanaśarman, the son of the illus- trious Pandita Dāmōdara, of the Agastya gotra and three pravaras.” And in this matter this is the prayer of the donor--- (Here follow eleven benedictive and imprecatory verses.) (V. 29) (This charter) has been written by Vatsarāja, the son of the illustrious Dharma and son’s son of Abhyuddhara, (who is) the Daśamulin of the lord of Chēdi. May there be bliss and great prosperity ! Success ! (V. 30) May Rāghava, the lord of sacrificers, the full moon that delights the ocean of well-being of this illustrious king Jayasimha, who is honoured on account of his virtues, cause great prosperity and happiness to the learned, making the lores sprout forth, and annihilating ignorance ! (This charter) has been engraved by the sculptor Tālhana, the son of Pālhana of The illustrious Kōkāsa family.
Seal THE stone bearing this inscription was found at Jabalpur, the headquarters of a district of the same name in Madhya Pradesh. The record has been referred to several times, e.g., by Dr. F.E. Hall in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. VI, p. 533, by Dr. F. Kielhorn in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVIII, p. 210 and, again, in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. V, Appendix I, p. 10, n. 4 and by Rai Bahadur Hiralal in his Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar, (second ed.), p. 42; but owing presumably to its very bad preservation6 none attempted a transcript or even an abstract of its contents. The record was for the first time edited by me in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXV, pp. 309 ____________________
1Compare Sanskrit in Kullūka’s
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