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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAHISMATI seats to the Community of Venerable Monks hailing from all the four directions. The order was issued by the king personally from Māhishmatī which was evidently his capital at the time. His sign manual Mahārāja-Subandhōh occurs in the margin on the left as on the preceding Barwani plate. The plate bore a date at the end of lines 12 and 13, but owing to the breaking off of a piece of it, only the name of the month Śrāvana now remains. All other details are now lost. The date of the Barwani grant made by the same Mahārāja Subandhu shows, however, that the inscription can be referred to the early decades of the fifth century A.C. Māhishmatī, as stated before, is probably identical with Onkār Māndhātā in the Nēmād District of the Madhya Pradesh. Dāsilakapalli may be identical with Dēswāliā which lies about 14 miles almost due south of the Bāgh Caves . TEXT1
1From an ink impression kindly supplied by the Director of Archæology, Madhya Bhārat. 
12Two aksharas are lost here. They may have been 13 Two aksharas are lost here also. Read 14 Three or four aksharas appear to have been lost here. They must have been Sam followed by two or three numerical symbols denoting the year. 15About four or five aksharas have been lost here. They must have contained the name of the fortnight followed by symbols denoting the tithi. |
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