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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA PURI PLATE OF KULASTAMBHA goes on to record the grant of the village of Paḍāra, attached to the Gōilō khaṇḍa (subdivision), in favour of Bhaṭṭaputra Vēlluka who was the son of Āṇanti and whose original home was at Āviddhā. The village was given along with its boundaries and the space above the ground (s-ōddēśa) ; but it was not made a rent-free holding. It was given as a kara-śāsana (i.e. land granted as a rent-paying holding) with a fixed rent of ten Palas of silver apparently per annum. It is not stated whether the village was sold or given away free of cost ; but it was possibly purchased from its owner with the king’s approval with the stipulation of an annual rent as in some other cases known from Orissan inscriptions.[1] The charter ends with some of the usual imprecatory and benedictory verses. The language of these stanzas is extremely corrupt as in the case of the kraya-śāsana (the Madras Museum plates of Narēndradhavala) edited above. Of the geographical names occurring in the inscription, the location of Kōdālōka has been discussed in connection with the Hindol plate edited above. It is probably modern Koalu near Talcher in Dhenkanal. The expression “ all the Gōndramas ” or “ the eighteen Gōndramas ”, as indicated elsewhere, was possibly used to signify the same thing as Oriya aṭhara-gaḍa-jāta. The Śaṅkhajōṭikā has been identified with the Sankha river in the Sundargarh region of Upper Orissa. The exact location of the village Āviddhā and Paḍāra is uncertain.
TEXT[2] [Metres : Verse 1 Gīti ; verses 2 and 4 Upajāti (Indravajrā and Upēndravajrā) ; verses 3 and 5 Vasantatilaka ; verse 6 Upajāti (Vaṁśastha and Indravaṁśā) ; verse 7 Sragdharā.] Obverse
1 Siddham[3] Svasta(sti | ) Jayati sur-āsura-vidvad-[4]vidyādhara-makuṭa- _________________________________________________
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