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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI
TRANSLATION Success ! Adoration ! (Line 4) During the reign of the illustrious Śankaragaņa (I), (there is) the illustrious Chutu Nāgaka in (charge of) the vishaya of Kakandakutu. (Line 7) He has himself recorded (the gift of) a granary in (the villages of) Karīkatin and Asēkatin. Again, whatever is written here is authoritative. Whatever is written here is authoritative.
No. 37; PLATE XXX A THIS inscription was discovered by R.B. Hiralal in 1928. A short notice of it appeared in the second edition of his Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar, published in 1931. The record was, for the first time, edited, with a lithograph, by me in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXIII, pp. 255 f. It is edited here from excellent estampages kindly supplied by the Superintendent, Archæological Survey, Central Circle, Patna. Kārītalāi is now a small village, twenty-nine miles north by east from Murwārā, the headquarters of a tahsil of the same name in the Jabalpur District of Madhya Pradesh. The place seems to be of great antiquity, for, an inscription in shell characters9 and another of the Gupta period10 have been discovered there. There are several old temples at Kārītalāi, from one of which, probably dedicated to the boar incarnation of Vishņu, another inscription11 of the time of Lakshmaņarāja II, was brought over to Nagpur and is at present deposited in the Central Museum, Nagpur. The present inscription is affixed to the temple of Dēvī Madhiā at Kārītalāi. It
is fragmentary. Its preserved portion measures 10½” broad and 1’ 10½” high. Originally
there were fourteen lines only, of which thirteen were inscribed breadthwise. Each
of these now contains on an average fourteen aksharas. The fourteenth line runs horizontal stroke at the top and has not a perfectly round back. Nor is it exactly like d, see duranmanaâ, 1. 3.
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