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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI should be texed four pauras, and a horse two pauras (V.82) Similarly whatever other gift and whatever reward for scholarship may be madeâ¦. (by them) the religious merit, wealth and fame are obtained. At the monastery of the holy nohalesvara there was the illustrious preceptorAghorasiva- (V.83) Sometimes living on alns and sometimes on vegetables, sometimes eating roots and sometimes subsisting on bulbous roots, seeking the supreme light of Śiva free from the intense darkness of passion, he had never to suffer the virulent poison of sensual enjoyment. By him was the eulogy put together. The (inhabitants of ) famous Tripuri, Saubhagyapura, Lavananagara, Durlabha- pura, Vimanapuraâ¦.. shall bring guarded (to the monastery ?) the bull made of beautiful wood every day (at the fair ?) of the god for the performance of the religious rite. (V.85) May this composition, which deserves praise from the wonder-struck poet Rājaśēkhara, and the afore-mentioned glorious work,² (both of ) which have well- joined parts, endure till the destruction of the world ! Of the Kāyastha, the illustrious Sīruka. (V.86) (This) culogy was written by Nāī, the son of Dhīra, the writer of legal documents and was engraved by Nōnna, the son of the excellent Sūtradhāra (artisan) Sańgama. . There shall be no sale or gift (of any portion) of oneâs own donation.
No. 46; PLATE XXXVI THIS inscription was noticed for the first time by Mr. R. D. Banerji in the Progress Report of the Archaological Survey of India, Western Circle, for 1920-21, PP. 51 ff. The same scholar subsequently published a transcript and a translation of it in his Haihayas of Tripurī and their Monuments, PP. 122 ff., and finally edited it with a lithograph and a transla- tion in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXII , 127 ff It is edited here from excellent estampages kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist for India. The slab on which the inscription is engraved was discovered about half a can- tury ago among the ruins of the great temple called Gurgaj at Gurgi, a village about twelve miles due east of Rewa town in the State of Vindhya Pradesh. It is now placed in the front wall of the palace at Rewa. The inscribed slab measures about 4’ 1’’ by 3’ 4’’ . There are forty-nine lines in all.
The average size of the letters is . 8’’. The record has suffered a good deal in its lower part 1 The pēhēvā inscription (Ep. Ind., Vol. I, pp. 184 ff.) mentions the tax of one dharma on each horse
brought to the market for sale. The Harsha stone inscription mentions the tax of the drama on every
horse sold by the Hēdāvikas of Uttarāpatha, Ind. Ant., Vol. XLII p.64. See also Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII
p. 124.
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