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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA TWO GRANTS FROM DASPALLA Jayānanda Parānanda Śivānanda Dēvānanda I Vilāsatuṅga
Paramamāhēśvara
Paramasaugata
The Narasingpur plate of Dēvānanda II is a spurious document containing only certain fragments of two genuine charters of the Nanda king. As noticed above,[1] the fragments of verses found in the is spurious record suggested the existence of some genuine grants of Dēvānanda having a set of introductory stanzas which were different from those known from the published records of the king. Happily this conjecture has now been justified fully by the discovery of the present inscription. The introductory part of the charter under discussion consists of ten stanzas none of which is found in the common introduction of the Baripada Museum and Jurerpur plates of Dēvānanda and the Talmul plate of Dhruvānanda, although fragments of most of them can be traced in the spurious Narsingpur plate of the former. Lines 1-3 and 8-19 of the Narsingpur plate contain fragments of the verses forming the introduction of our charter in the following order : 1, 6, 7, 8, 4, 5 and 6. Lines 16, 18 and 19 of the same plate contain respectively the numbers 4, 5 and 6 which, as we have already pointed out, were meant to indicate the end of the fourth, fifth and sixth verses of some genuine records copied in it. It is now seen that the number 4 is put there actually after the concluding passage of the fourth verse of the present charter, while 5 is placed among certain passages of the fifth verse and 6 between the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth stanza apparently; through confusion. The inscription begins with the symbol for Siddham. Verse 1 describes the city of Jayapura, capital of the Nandas, while each one of the following six verses describes respectively the rulers Jayānanda, his son Parānanda, his son Śivānanda, his son Dēvānanda I, his son Vilāsatuṅga, and his son Dēvānanda II, although the description of the reigning monarch Dēvānanda II continues in the following three stanzas (verses 8-10). This introductory part of the record contains hardly anything besides conventional and vague praises of the rulers described. Next follows a prose passage (lines 22-26) introducing again king Dēvānanda II as desirous of making _________________________________________________ [1] Above, Vol. XXVII, p. 331. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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