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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA were situated respectively in Amalakshudduṅga within the Phāṇita vīthī (subdivision),1 in Shaṭṭāpāṇāyichatra incorporating Pañchakāṇḍaka with the Puṇḍarikā maṇḍala (smaller district or its part), and in the Pañchanagarī vishaya (district). Of these, the Pañchanagarī vishaya no doubt had its headquarters at the city of the same name whence the Baigram plate2 was issued. We have elsewhere3 suggested that this city is possibly the same as Ptolemey’s Pentapolis and is no other than modern Pañchbibi in the Bogra District. The bhukti (province) of Puṇḍravardhana, identified with modern Mahāsthān in the Bogra District, originally comprised northern Bengal, although in later times its jurisdiction is known sometimes to have extended over certain parts of south-eastern and southern Bengal. The village of Pōshalī, whence the family of the engraver hailed, seems to be the same as the Pōshalī gāñī of the Rāḍhīya Brāhmaṇas of Bengal. The village has been identified with modern Pōshēlā about 5 miles to the south-east of Maṅgalkōṭ in the Burdwan District of West Bengal,4 although little can be said in favour of the identification. TEXT5 [ Metres : Verses 1, 8 Sragdharā ; verses 2, 3, 6 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; verses 4, 7, 10 Vasantatilakā ; verse 5 Āryā ; verse 9 Indravajrā ; verse 11 Mālinī ; verse 12 Mandākrāntā ; verses 3-17, 20, 21 Anushṭubh ; verse 18 Śālinī ; verse 19 Pushpitāgrā.]
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1 Ni[6][||*] [Siddham[7]|| ] Svasti [||*] Maitrīṅ=kāruṇya-ratna-pramudita-hṛidayaḥ prēyasī[ṁ] ni[6] _________________________________________________
[1] Mr. Gupta is inclined to identify Phāṇita with Pānituāl or Pānitolā on the Karatōyā and Amalakshudduṅga
with Amalgārī not far from Belwā. He also equates gaṇḍa in Sāhasa-gaṇḍa with the gārī-ending of modern names. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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