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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE TRAIKUTAKAS analogy of Antar-Narmadā vishaya mentioned in the Sunao Kalā plates of Sangamasimha.1 Kāpura2 is a village of the same name, three miles south-south-west from Vyārā the head-quarters of the Vyārā subdivision of the Surat District. Kanīyas-Tadākāsārikā means Smaller Tadākāsārikā and may be represented by ‘Tarsāri, fifteen miles almost due west of Kāpura and about half way between the Mindhōlā and the Pūrnā’. Āmrakā, where the king’s camp was fixed, cannot be definitely identified as there are several villages of the name Ambachh or Āmbāchh in the neighbourhood, but of them the nearest to Kāpura is Ambachh, about 2 miles towards the south-west.
TRANSLATION
Hail! From the victorious camp fixed at Āmrakā, the illustrious Mahārāja
Dahrasēna (of the family) of the Traikūtakas, who meditates on the feet of (his) mother
and father, who is a servant of the feet of Bhagavat and who has performed an Aśvamēdha,
issues the following order to all his18 officials residing in the vishaya (district) of Antar-Mandalī.
1Below, No. 11. |
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