North Indian Inscriptions

SINDA INSCRIPTION AT BHAIRANMATTI.

Takshaka ; a very Kâmadêva with his tiger-crest ; the king of the Sindhu country (l. 42) ;¹ the spotless Sinda (l. 43) ; the ornament of the Sindakuḷa,─ (such was) the illustrious Nâgâditya.

......Hail ! To Paratraya-Siṁharâśibhaṭṭa (l. 44), on a Sunday which combined the Uttarâyaṇa-saṁkrânti and the Vyatîpâta (yôga), having washed the feet of Paratraya-Siṁharâśi, Nâgâtiyarasa gave, for the god Sindêśvara, a field, of the measure of one thousand matters by the staff of Pattiya-Mattaüra (l. 45), of (the village of) Kiriya-Siriüra. The aruvaṇa on these thousand mattars is twelve gadyâṇas. And those who are in the state of being Brahmachârins shall manage the property.

......Hail ! While the asylum of the universe (l. 50), the favourite of fortune and of the earth, the Mahârâjâdhirâja, the Paramêśvara, the Paramabhaṭṭâraka, the ornament of the Châlukyas, the glorious Jagadêkamalladêva-(Jayasiṁha II.) (l. 51-52) was ruling, with the delight of pleasing conversations, at the camp² of Koḷḷipâke ; and when the Śrimukha saṁvatsara (l. 53), which was the 955th Śaka year, was current ; the illustrious Mahâsâmanta Nâgâtitarasa, having washed the feet of the holy Têjôrâśipaṇḍita, allotted to the god . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of Puradakêri (l. 54). The six Gâvuṇḍus shall protect this act of piety.

......Têjôrâśipaṇḍita (l. 57), the Âchârya of the god Sindêśvara, restored such (parts of the temple) as had fallen into ruin.

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No. 34.─ KUNIYUR PLATES OF THE TIME OF VENKATA II. ;

SAKA-SAMVAT 1556.

BY H. KRISHNA SASTRI ; BANGALORE.

......The copper-plates which bear this inscription, belong to a Brâhmaṇa resident of the village of Kûniyûr in the Ambâsamudram tâlukâ of the Tinnevelly district, and were sent to Dr. Hultzsch for examination by Mr. T. Varada Rao, Acting Head Assistant Collector of Tinnevelly, in December 1890. I edit the inscription from two sets of ink-impressions, which were kindly made over to me by Dr. Hultzsch, who has already noticed it briefly in his Progress Report for October 1890 to March 1891.³

......The original consists of seven plates, measuring 8¾ inches in height from the middle of the bottom to the middle of the semi-circular top, and 6½ inches in breadth between the two parallel sides, the height of which approaches to 5½ inches. The ring-hole, which is a little more than ½” in diameter, is bored just ¾” below the rounded top. “The plates are strung on a ring with the seal which contains the figure of a boar facing the left, the legend Śrî-Veṁkaṭêśa, and representations of the sun and the moon” (loc. cit.). The first and last of the seven plates bear writing only on the inner side, while the rest are writing on both sides. The second side of the first plate, where the inscription begins, is marked with the Telugu numeral ‘one’ to the proper right of the ring-hole, while the remaining plates are similarly and regularly numbered on their first sides. From the appearance of the impressions I infer that the original plates have raised rims, and that those letters at the beginning and end of lines, which are indistinct on the impressions, may be quite clear in the original.
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......¹ ‘Sindhu’ is possibly a mistake for ‘Sinda.’
......² Here we have bîḍu, ‘a temporary residence, a halting-place.’ It seems to have not so strong a meaning as nelevîḍu, of which of course it is a components.
......³ Madras G. O. dated 10th June 1891, No. 452, Public, p. 6.