North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI

CHARKHĀRĪ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF PARAMARDIDĒVA

No. 132 ; PLATE CXIX

CHARKHĀRĪ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF PARAMARDIDĒVA

[Vikrama] Year 1236

THIS is one of the four copper-plate grants edited by R. B. Hiralal in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XX (1929-30), pp. 125-136,¹⁰ all without facsimiles. As to their find and the present deposits, we have already remarked above,¹¹ that all of them were found with the Chief of Charkhārī, formerly a State in the Bundelkhand region of the Central India Agency and now included in the Hamīrpur District of Uttar Pradesh. The original find-spots of these plates are not known, and no information as to their present deposits is forthcoming ; and even an impression is now not possible to have. Under the circumstances, I edit this record from the text given by Hiralal, appending my notes to it.

The inscription is on two plates, both of which are incised on the inner side only. The first plate is stated to measure 60∙95 by 28∙57 cms., and the second 61∙25 by 26∙70 cms. Their
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¹ As also noted by Venis, the sign of anusvāra is half engraved so as to look like a superscript r. Cf. the same sign on the fourth letter in l. 16 above.
² A curve as of ph is attached to ya here, in the first of these letters.
³ The bracketed letter appears as a loop followed by the verticals, which are also joined by a horizontal stroke as that of dhā.
⁴ Because of a redundant stroke the superscript of this letter appears as bh.
⁵ In the curve of the mātrā is lightly engraved, it is clear on the plate.
⁶ Read , in the light of a similar expression in the Sēmrā grant of the same king (No. 126).
⁷ It is not known whether the sign of visarga was inadvertently or purposely omitted here. In the latter case, it is a somewhat rare sandhi but can be justified in accordance with the vārttika on Pāṇini’s rule VIII, 3, 36. Also better read .
⁸ The latter part of this akshara is hidden under the strip referred to above.
⁹ The sign of visarga, and probably also the horizontal stroke or strokes following it, are hidden under the strip.
¹⁰ For the three other grants, see Nos. 108. 144 and 151. The present inscription begins on p. 128 (of Ep. Ind., Vol. XX).
¹¹ In No. 108.