South Indian Inscriptions

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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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Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
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Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

LODHIA PLATES OF MAHASIVAGUPTA ; YEAR 57

Chhattisgarh Division and now in Orissa, is the old Khadirapadra. This Khairpali is about 10 miles from Baidpāli. About a mile from Baidpāli there is a village called Jogimath where there are remains of an old temple which has already collapsed.^[1]

Unlike the Mallār plates of Mahā-Śivagupta, the Lodhiā plates are dated, the year being the 57th regnal year of the king. The grant was made on the full-moon day of the month of Kārttika. The donor’s reign must have been a long one extending over half a century and by the time of this grant he would have been over 70 years of age. We have no clue to find out the exact equivalent of the given date in the Christian era or in any of the Indian eras.

TEXT^[2]

First Plate

Second Plate : First side

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^[1] Khadirapadraka and Vaidyapadraka have however been identified with the villages Khairpadar and Bajipadar respectively in the Kalahandi State by Mr. K. N. Mahāpātra. (Jour. of Kal. Hist. Res. Soc., Vol. II, Nos, 2-3, p. 171.)
^[2] From the original plates and inked estampages.
^[3] Expressed by a symbol.
^[4] This letter looks like dī in the impression. The original shown it to be correctly di. The dot seen within the medial i sign in the impression, making it into ī, is due to a natural depression on the plate.
^[5] After the letter ta there are two superfluous dots after the fashion of the visarga sign.
^[6] After the letter ya also there is a superfluous visarga sign.
^[7] The medial i signs in vi and ji of vijigīshu, each show faint traces of a dot within, which is superfluous.
^[8] The lower dot of the visarga is mixed up with the extreme end of the subscript r of the following letter, pra.
^[9] Again there is a superfluous visarga sign after the letter rya.
^[10] The downward stroke to the right of ñ is missing here as in yajña of l. 13. It is clearly seen in jñā of rajñā, l. 3 and sam-ājñāpayati, l. 10.
^[11] The ś of Śiva shows a superfluous cross-bar, due to a flaw in the plate.
^[12] This daṇḍa is not necessary.
^[13] Here sandhi has not been observed.

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