North Indian Inscriptions

BHADANA GRANT OF APARAJITA.

16 payôg-ârthan=tattim¹=avyavachchhêdên=âchandrârkkaṁ yâvat=kurvataḥ kârayatô vâ smad-vaṁśajair=anyastarair=vvâ bhâvibhir=bhûpâlaiḥ kâla-kâlêshv=api paripaṁthanâ
17 nâ(na) kâryâ pratyut=âsmat-kṛita-prârthanayâ sadâ tatti-sânâthyaṁ vôḍhavyaṁ || Yataḥ samân=aiv=êyaṁ puṇya-phal-âvâptir=anumaṁtavyâ | Uktaṁ cha bhagavatâ pa-
18 ramarshiṇâ vêda-vyâsêna Vyâsêna || ²Va(ba)hubhir=vvasudhâ bhuktâ râjabhiḥ Sagar-âdibhiḥ | yasya yasya yadâ bhûmis=tasya tasya tadâ phalam || Âdityô Varu-
19 ṇô Vâyur=Vvra(bbra)hmâ Vishṇur=Hutâśanaḥ | bhagavân(ñ)=Śûlapâṇiś=cha abhinandanti bhûmidam || Shashṭiṁ varsha-sahasrâṇi svarggê tishṭhati bhûmidaḥ | âchchhêttâ ch=ânumaṁ-
20 tâ cha tâny=êva narakaṁ³ vasêt || ⁴Yair=vvâṁchhitaṁ śiśiradîdhiti-śubhra-kîrttêr=yaiś=ch=âmara-praṇayinî-pariraṁbhaṇasya | tê sâdhavô na hi haranti parêṇa da-
21 ttâṁ dânâd=vadanti paripâlanam sâdhu || || Śâsanaṁ⁵ kṛitavân=Dêddô⁶ likhitaṁ tasya sûnunâ | vyaktaṁ Sûraprasâdêna utkîrṇṇaṁ Hariṇâ tata iti ||
22 Tathâ ऽmushmai dêvâya pârśv[ê] dêvakulikâ-chatusṭayâ4ऽdhô-jagatyâṁ⁷ pratishṭhita-Vinâyaka-sahitâya [ha]ṭṭa-dânê gônîṁ⁸ prati haṭṭa-vyâvahâru(ri)ka-viṁ [3] gha[ṭaka]-kûpakaṁ prati ghṛi-
23 tasya tailasya cha palik[ê] dvê 2 vîthîṁ prati mâsi [2(?)] viṁ 2 tathâ vahiḥ-pravishṭa-chôllikâṁ prati parṇṇânâṁ 50 êtad=dêvasya kṛitam=iti || || Śrî-Matha[na]ḥ ||

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No. 37.─ BHADANA GRANT OF APARJITA ;

SAKA-SAMVAT 919.

BY F. KIELHORN, PH. D., LL.D., C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN.

......These plates are said⁹ to have been found, in 1881, with the headman of ‘Bhere,’ a village about ten miles north of Bhiwaṇḍi, the chief town of the Bhiwaṇḍi tâlukâ of the Ṭhâṇa district of the Bombay Presidency. I edit the inscription which they contains from excellent impressions, prepared by Dr. Fleet, to whom the original plates were lent by their present owner, Colonel A. F. Dobbs, late Madras staff Corps.

......These are three copper-plates, the second and third of which are engraved on both sides, while the first is so on one side only. Each plate measures about 10⅛” broad by 7⅜” high. Their edges were fastioned thicker, so as to serve as rims to protect the writing ; and, with the exception of a few short passages on the first sides of the second and third plates, the inscription
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......¹ This word, tattim, and the word tatti in the next line are quite clear in the rubbings, and cannot be read in any other way. The two previous editions of the text have tatrim in this line, and tatri or tatra in the next.
......² Metre of this verse and of the two next verses : Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
......³ Read narakê.
......⁴ Metre : Vasantatilakâ. The construction in this verse is grammatically incorrect.
......⁵ Metre : Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
......⁶ This word, instead of which the two published versions of the text have dêvô, is quite clear in the rubbings.
......⁷ Instead of ऽdhôjagatyâṁ, which is quite clear in the rubbings, the published texts have râjadhânyâṁ.
......⁸ Read gôṇîṁ.
......⁹ See the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XIV. p. 50.