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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TASGAON PLATES OF YADAVA KRISHNA ; SAKA 1172 (1 Plate) G. H. KHARE, POONA Sometime in 1934, my friend Mr. V. T. Apte, M.A., LL.B., of Jamkhandi (the capital of the state of the same name in Southern Maratha country, now merged into the Indian Union) sent to me four copper plates with a tentative reading of the record inscribed on them. He informed me that he got them from Mr. S. R. Apte, the then Public Prosecutor of Jamkhandi who had secured them from Mr. Jog, a pleader at Tasgaon (Satara). On examining the plates, I found that the grant originally consisted of five plates of which the first was missing. But having no hope of getting it in the near future, the incomplete record was edited jointly by myself and my friend Mr. V. T. Apte.[3] After a lapse of 4 years, however, through the goodness of Mr. Vinayaka Dinakara Limaye of Tasgaon, who was the original owner of the four plates, I was able to get the missing plate, which I edited separately.[4] I now re-edit the complete record in this journal for a wider circle of scholars.
The set consists of five plates, measuring 10½″, 6″ and less than 1/10″ in length, breadth and thickness respectively. They were strung on a circular ring, 2½″ in diameter, the two ends of which were soldered into a rectangular seal, bearing in relief, from left to right, the figures of a couchant bull and a flying garuḍa with folded hands. Garuḍa was the emblem of the Yādava dynasty and the bull probably that of the feudatory family brought to notice for the first time in these plates. The first and the fifth plates are inscribed on the inner sides only, while the remaining three plates are engraved on both sides. The rims of the plates are tuned either inwards or outwards, and the writing is well preserved on the whole. The set weighs 219 tolas. The grant is written in characters of the southern Nāgarī type of the thirteenth century A.D. and calls for few remarks. The engraver being not sufficiently skilled in his craft has committed several mistakes. It is rather difficult to differentiate between dva and ddha ; ra, ta and na also cannot be easily distinguished form one another. About orthography, some points deserve mention. Jihvāmūlīya has been used in 19 places (ll. 9, 12, 16, 19, 21, 24, 39, 42, 44, 51, 53, 62, 66, 68, 82, 91, 96) and upadhmānīya in 8 places (ll. 14, 15, 29, 30, 41, 49, 91, 96). S has been used for ś in some places ; e.g., Srīchandra (l. 37), satam _________________________________
[1] Cf. Vasantīśvarambunāk=ichchinadi (i.e., given to the temple of Vasantīśvara) in No. 384 of 1904 of the
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