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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI No. 70; THIS inscription was brought to notice in I936 by Dr. N.P. Chakravarti, Govern- ment Epigraphist for India, who found it deposited in the guard-hall of the old Palace at Rewa in Vidhya Pradesh. The original provenace of it is not known A short account of its contents was published by the Government Epigraphist in his report for the year I935-36.1 The record is edited here for the first time from inked estampages kindly supplied by him.2 The inscription is incised on a slab of stone which is broken irregularly on the proper left. The extant writing covers a space measuring 2’ I½” in height and from I’ to I’ I” in breadth. No lines are broken off from the top and the bottom, but on the proper left from three to twelve aksharas are lost at the end of each line. The writing has again suffered very much by exposure to weather, several aksharas being completely effaced in almost every line. As shown below, the inscription appears to be a public copy of a copper-plate charter. It has a large portion in common with other Kalachuri grants, especially the Jabalpur plates of Jayasimha3 and the Kumbhī plates of Vijayasimha.4 Many of the lost or illegible aksharas can,therefore, be restored with the help of these latter records ; but some names of officials mentioned in lines 9-I2 and a few fiscal terms which occurred in lines I3-I6 are now irrecoverably lost. The record consists of I9 lines. The size of the letters varies from .8” to I”. The Characters are Nāgarī. They resemble in a general way those of the Lāl-Pahād stone inscription. The language is Sanskrit and the whole record is in prose. In style the inscription is in the customary form of a copper-plate charter.5 The orthography does not call for any remarks
The inscription refers itself to the reign of the king Vijayasimha of the Later Kalachuri Dynasty of Tripurī. The object of it is to records the king’s grant of the village Dhōţţavāda in the Rēvā pattalā. The name of the donee, which seems to have occurred at the end of line I3, is lost The present record appears to be a public copy of a charter which must have been originally engraved on copper-plates. As in the Kumbhī plates, the royal order is issued here from the capital Tripurī. Again, in lines 6-I6 the present record names dignitaries and mentions seems, therefore, that Vijayasimha caused the charter to be opening and incised on the stone in order to give it full publicity. Like his predecessors; Vijayasimha is described here as who meditated on the
feet of Vāmadēva and assumed the title Trikalingādhipati and others. Among
the officers to whom the royal order is addressed there are the Mahāpradhāna Ţhak
kura Kiki, the Arthalēkhin Ţhakkura Kēśava, the Sāndhivigrakika Lakhana the
Mahāmantrin Haripāla, the Mahāmantrin Mahāmāndalika and the Rājaguru Vimala-
1 A.R.A.S.I. for I935-36,pp.89-90.
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