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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI fore-arm was washed by (libation of) water in making many gifts, who was a lion in break- ing open the frontal globes of hosts of elephants on many fields of battle (and) (whose arms) had deprived all warriors of their pride. His son was the Mahārāṇaka, the illustrious Vatsarāja, who was able to turn backthe irresistible elephants of the enemies, (and) who, like Karņa, wore ear-ornaments and a crown.
(L.8) His son, the Mahārāṇaka, the illustrious Kīrtivarman, a devout worshipper
of Mahēśvara, who, like the celestial tree, grants their desired objects to the Brāhmaņa
supplicants, (and) who, like Arjuna, has routed multitudes of enemies with the tips of
arrows (discharged) with (his) bow, --- has granted, at the place of worshipping the balls (of
rice) offered in honour of the Rāņaka the illustrious Vatsarāja, on Thursday, the fourth
tithi of the bright fortnight of the month Bhādrapada in the year 926, for the increase
of infinite religious merit and fame of (his) mother and father and himself, the village Ahaḍāpāḍa in the Khaṇḍagahā pattalā extending as far as its limits, with its four
boundaries well-determined, together with land and water, together with mango and
madhūka trees, together with salt mines, together with pits and barren lands, together
with the rights of egress and ingress, together with pasture-lands, together with treasures
and deposits, with beneficial wealth and together with taxes--to the Ţhakuras, the illustrious
Brāhmaņas Mahādītya and Sīlaṇa, the sons of the Ṭhakura, the illustrious Chaturbhuja,
son’s sons of the Ṭhakura, the illustrious Gayādhara, son’s son’s sons of the Ṭhakura, the
illustrious Trilōchana, who belong to the Kauśika gōtra and have the three pravaras Audala,
Viśvāmitra and Dēvarāta, who are (always) engaged in the six duties, (viz.,) performance of sacrifice for themselves and for others, studying and teaching, making and receiving-
gifts.
Ōṁ! Hail!
No. 66: PLATE LV
THE stone which bears this short inscription was procured by Dr. F.E. Hall at Tēwar, a
village about 6 miles to the west of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, and presented by him
to the American Oriental Society, in whose cabinet, at New Haven, it is now deposited.
It is said to be of like character with that of Alhaṇadēvī’s inscription. Dr. Hall also first
edited the inscription, with a translation, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society,
Vol. VI, pp. 512 f; and his text was subsequently reprinted in Roman characters, with a
photozincograph of the inscription in Dr. Burgess’ Inscriptions from the Cave-Temples of
Western India, p. 110 and his translation in Sir A. Cunningham’s Archæological Survey of
India Reports, Vol. IX, pp. 95 f.¹ The inscription was next edited by Dr. Kielhorn, with
a translation, but without a facsimile, in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, pp. 17-19. It is
edited here from two excellent photographs kindly supplied by the authorities of the
American Oriental Society. 1Ep. Ind, Vol. II, p. 17.,
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