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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TWO PLATES OF TRIBHUVANAMAHADEVI FROM BAUD lēkhā, the moon of the Vrāgaḍi family of Virāṭa lineage and wife of Mahāmaṇḍalādhipati Maṅgalakalaśa, Pṛithvīmahādēvī made the following grants in the year 158 for perpetual offering of ablution, sandal paste, etc., to the deity Umāmahēśvara installed in the temple constructed by Śaśilēkhā and named Nānnēśvara after her father, for repairs to the temple, for providing garments and medicines to mendicants, for food and clothing to Brāhmaṇas and for the maintenance of the family of the dānapati.[1] The grant in plate A consists of a village named Kōṭṭapurā together with the Nānnēśvara talapāṭaka in the district of Tamālakhaṇḍa in Daṇḍabhukti-maṇḍala situated in Uttara-Tōsalā. The grant recorded in plate B is a plot of land called Utthukā-khaṇḍakshētra in the district of Dakshiṇakhaṇḍa in Daṇḍabhukti-maṇḍala of Uttara-Tōsalā. I may here point out that some portions of the text of the records under discussion occur in others as indicated below. Verse 6 of our plates occurs in the Talcher plate of Śubhākaradēva of the year 141.[2] Again verse 15 of our records occurs in the same plate with reference to the mother of Kusumahāra or Śubhākara III. The birudas of Tribhuvanamahādēvī as given in the Dhenkanal plate[3] and in the plates under discussion are identical and the issuer is called Sindagaurī in both. The passage dealing with the boundaries of the gift land in the present plates is almost the same as that in the Talcher plates of Śivakaradēva III of the year 149.[4]
Mahākshapaṭalādhikṛita Rāṇaka Śrī-Mallōka acted as the dūtaka, mahākshapaṭalika bhōgin Śakrasēna as the writer and pēṭakapāla Dēvadēva as the heater in case of both the records under study. Plate A was incised by the brazier Amṛitavardhana, son of Īśvaravardhana, while plate B was incised by Harivardhana, son of Rahasavardhana. From the four copper plate charters of the Bhauma-Kara dynasty, viz., the two Talcher plates of Śivakara III, the Dheṇkanal plate of Tribhuvanamahādēvī and our plate B, we learn that Harivardhana was the son of Rahasavardhana and the grandson of Rāmavardhana. These plates are very important for the study of the history of the Bhauma-Kara dynasty of Orissa as they bring to light many new facts. Firstly, they reveal that Daṇḍabhukti-maṇḍala was included in the kingdom of the Bhauma-Karas of Orissa. Secondly, they throw new light on the genealogy of that dynasty. Thirdly, they reveal that the later Bhauma-Karas were matrimonially connected with the Sōmavaṁśī kings of Kōsala. The genealogy of the Bhauma-Karas obtained from the present plates and that obtained from other plates are given below for a comparative study. Plates under discussion
1 Unmaṭṭasiṁha _________________________________________________
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