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Altekar, A. S

Bhattasali, N. K

Barua, B. M And Chakravarti, Pulin Behari

Chakravarti, S. N

Chhabra, B. CH

Das Gupta

Desai, P. B

Gai, G. S

Garde, M. B

Ghoshal, R. K

Gupte, Y. R

Kedar Nath Sastri

Khare, G. H

Krishnamacharlu, C. R

Konow, Sten

Lakshminarayan Rao, N

Majumdar, R. C

Master, Alfred

Mirashi, V. V

Mirashi, V. V., And Gupte, Y. R

Narasimhaswami, H. K

Nilakanta Sastri And Venkataramayya, M

Panchamukhi, R. S

Pandeya, L. P

Raghavan, V

Ramadas, G

Sircar, Dines Chandra

Somasekhara Sarma

Subrahmanya Aiyar

Vats, Madho Sarup

Venkataramayya, M

Venkatasubba Ayyar

Vaidyanathan, K. S

Vogel, J. Ph

Index.- By M. Venkataramayya

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

KOLHAPUR PLATES OF SILAHARA GANDARADITYA ; SAKA 1037

(1 Plate)

G. H. KHARE, POONA

The set of copper plates which 1 edit here belonged originally to Mr. R. N. Apte, Principal (now retired), Rajaram College, Kolhapur. He handed it over to the late Prof. K. B. Pathak, who entrusted it to me with a tentative reading of the same. I edited it in Marāṭhī some years ago in the Sources of the Mediaeval History of the Dekkan, Vol. I, pp. 33 ff. I re-edit it here for the benefit of a wider circle of scholars.

The set consists of three plates measuring 10½″X7⅛″ strung on a circular ring with a diameter of 2½″. The two ends of the ring are soldered into the bottom of a rimmed rectangular seal, which bears in relief the figure of a flying Garuḍa facing front, with a cobra in his left hand. The first and the third plates are written on the inner side only, while the second is inscribed on both the sides. The rims of the plates being raised, the writing is well preserved. The whole set together with the ring and the seal weighs 278 tolas.

The record is written in Kanarese script of the 12th century A.D. and calls for only a few remarks. The writing in general resembles that of the Śilāhāra Mārasiṁha’s grant of Ś. 980.1 Initial short i has two forms ; the one in ily-ākhyāṁ (l.29) and iti grāma (l.47), and the other in Iḍuvarādityaḥ (l.41). The Dravidian r occurs only in one place, viz., Maruvakka (l.39). The end of most of the stanzas is marked by a spiral, sometimes ornamental. The stops of the prose portions in lines 50 and 61 are also indicated by spirals.

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The orthography has some peculiarities. Lingual is generally substituted for dental l ; but in some words such as Lakshmī, Mahālakshmī, Gōṅkala, Gūvala, Bhillama, Ballāḷa, the dental l is retained. The upadhmānīya which resembles sha is found in two places : tanayah=pratāpa-(l.7) and Lakshmīh=prādº (l.9). Consonants preceded by the rēpha have been generally doubled ; but there are exceptions. Second and fourth letters of the five classes when doubled after a rēpha change the prior consonant to the first or the third letter of the same class as in garbbhair-(l.35) and jīvit-ārtthaṁ (l.49) ; but this observance also is not without exception. In tībra (l.30) alone v has been changed to b. In varnnatē, (l.19) and ºssalabhāyitaḥ (l.21) and saka- (l.45) we find n and s substituted for and ś respectively. On the other hand in Maruvakka-śarppaḥ (ll. 13, 39) ś has been substituted for s.

The language of the record is Sanskrit intermingled with a few Kanarese words and phrases such as gampaṇa for kampaṇa (l.46), -āruvaṇaṁ (l.48), kodevaṇaṁ (l.50), Maruvakka-śarppaḥ (11.13, 39), Ayyana-siṁhaḥ (l.39), Iḍuvarādityaḥ (l.41), nārggāvuṇḍā (l.48). The portion between the verses 20 and 21 as well as that following the verse 24 is in prose while the rest of the record is in verse.

After invoking the Boar form of Vishṇu, the record introduces the Śilāhāra dynasty of Karāḍ or rather Kolhapur and gives the genealogy of the family from Jatiga I to Gaṇḍarāditya who issued the present grant.[2] This genealogy has some omissions which it is very difficult to account for.

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[1] Inscriptions from the Cave Temples of Western India by J. Burgess and Bhagwanlal Indraji, p. 102. 2 The genealogy given is as follows : 1 Jatiga 1

[2] Nāyima

[3] Chandra

[4] Jatiga II

[5] Gōṅkala 6 Gūvala I

[7] Mārasiṁha

[8] Gūvala II 9 Bhōja 10 Ballāḷa 11 Gaṇḍarāditya

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