North Indian Inscriptions

DUDIA PLATES OF PRAVARASENA II.

Second Plate ; First Side.

8 śauryya-vikkrama-naya-vinaya-mâhâtmya-dhimtva-pâtragatabhaktitva-¹dharmmavij a y i - tva-manônairmmaly-[â*]di-gu-
9 ṇai[ḥ*] samuditasya varsha-śatam=abhivarddhamâna²-kôśa-daṇḍa-sâdhana-santâna-putra-pautriṇaḥ Yudhisṭhira-vṛittêr=Vvâ-
10 kâṭakân[â*]m=maharaja-śrî-Pṛithivishêna(ṇa)sya sûnôḥ bhagavataś=Chakkrapâṇê[ḥ*] prasâd-ôpâ[r*]jjita-śrî-samuda-
11 yasya Vâkâṭakânâm=maharaja-śrî-Rudrasênasya³ sûnôḥ mahârâjadhirâja-Dêvagupta-
12 sut[â]yâḥ⁴ Prabh[â]vatiguptâyâm=utpannasya Vâk[â*]ṭakânâm=mah[â*]raja-śrî-Pravarasênasya
13 vachanât Ârammi-râjyê asmatsantakâs=sarvv[â*]ddhyaksha-niyôga-niyuktâḥ âjñâsañchâri-kula-

Second Plate ; Second Side.

14 putr-[â*]dhikṛitâḥ bhaṭâś=chhâtra¬ś=cha⁵ vyushatapûrvvamay=âjñâyajñâ-payitavya[â]ḥ Viditam=astu va(vô) yath=êh=âsmâbhi-
15 r=âtmanô dharmm-âyur-bbalam-aiśvarrya-vivṛiddhayê⁶ ih=âmutra hit-ârttham=âtm-ânugrahâya vaijayaikê⁷ dharmma-sthânê Chandrapura-
16 saṅgamikâyâḥ⁸ Darbbamalakê bhûmêh-pañchaviśâ[ṁ]⁹ Kauśika-sagôtr[â*]ya Yakshâryyâya Hiraṇyapura-bhôgê
17 Karmmakâra-grâmê bhumê¹⁰ shashṭi Kauṇḍiṇya(nya)-sagôtrâya Kâliśarmmâya¹¹ apurvva-datyâ¹² udaka-pu(pô)rvva-
18 m=atisṛishṭaḥ¹³ [|*] Uchitâś=ch=âsya¹⁴ pûrvva-râj-ânumatâṁ châturvvidya-grâma-mayyadâ¹⁵ parihâr-ârtthan(ṁ)=vitarâmas=ta-¹⁶
19 tad=yathâ akaradâyinyau¹⁷ abhaṭachchhatraprâvêśya¹⁸ apâramparagôbalivardda apushpakshîra-

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......¹ Read –dhîmattva-pâtrâgatabhaktatva. Instead of pâtragata the Chammak plates actually have bâtrâgata, while the Siwanî plates, too, read pâtragata.
......² The actual reading of the original may perhaps be =abhîva°.
......³ Read -śrî-.
......⁴ Read -sutâyâṁ,- which is the reading of the Chammak plates. Before Dêvagupta- one misses the word śrî- which the other plates have.
......⁵ Read =chhâttrâś=cha viśruta-pûrvvay=âjñay=âjñâpa°. The other plates both have viśruta instead of the meaningless vyushata-.
......⁶ Read -bbal-aiśvaryya-.
......⁷ Read vaijayikê.
......⁸ Read °kâyâṁ.
......⁹ Between the aksharas mê and hpa another akshara, perhaps ê or cha, was originally engraved, but the bank of the impression shews that it has been struck out again. One would have expected bhûmayaḥ (or bhûmînâṁ) pañchaviṁśatiḥ.
......¹⁰ Read bhûmayaḥ (or bhûmînâṁ) shashṭiḥ.
......¹¹ Read Kâliśarmmaṇê.
......¹² Read apûrvva-daityâ.
......¹³ Read °sṛishṭâḥ.
......¹⁴ Read uchitâṁ ch=. The word asya must be taken to refer to the places of land, mentioned before, collectively.
......¹⁵ Read -maryyâdâṁ. The Siwanî plates have nothing corresponding to the sentence uchitâś=ch=âsya . . . . vitarâmas ; the Chammak plates have it, but omit from it the word parihârâthaṁ.
......¹⁶ Originally °tarâmaḥ sta- was engraved, but the sign of visarga has been struck out. At the commencement of the next line the concluding ta of this line is erroneously repeated.
......¹⁷ The dual is used here and below, rather ungrammatically, because these adjectives refer to the two pieces of land, spoken of before.
......¹⁸ Read °chchhâttraprârêśyau, and, in the next word, °varddau. The four terms beginning with apâramparagôbalivarâda and the term sakṭiptôpakḷipta in l. 21 I am unable to explain.