North Indian Inscriptions

KHAREPATAN PLATES OF RATTARAJA.

32 [śû]raḥ paramarûpavân || [20*] ¹Raṭṭa-nâm=âbhavat=tasmâd=raja puṇyavatâṁ varaḥ | nîti-jñô nîti-
33 sâ(śâ)str-ârtha-vṛi[ddha]-sêvî jit-êndriyaḥ || [21*] Paramabhaṭâraka-mahârâdhirâja-śrî-Satyâśrayadê-
34 v-ânudhyâta-maṇḍalika-srî(śrî)-Raṭṭarâjaḥ sarvvam=êva² sva-saṁva(ba)dhyamâna-paura-jânapada-pradhâ-
35 nâmâtya-varggam=âhûy=âstu³ vaḥ saṁviditaṁ yath=ântarlîna-jarâ-pûtan-âravdha(bdhu)- grâsaṁ yauva-
36 naṁ niriya-patanam=iv=êshṭa-viyôga-duḥkhaṁ vyâvi(dhi)-jarâ-maraṇa-sâdhâraṇaṁ cha
37 śarîrakaṁ ⁴pavana-chala-kamaladala-gata-jalalava-sadṛiśî dhan âyushî

Third Plate ; First Side.

38 matvâ dâna-phalañ=cha⁵ vivêka-vu(bu)ddhyâ || uktaṁ cha ṁunibhiḥ | ⁶Agnêr= apatyaṁ prathamaṁº su-
39 varṇṇaṁ ⁷dyaur=Vvaishṇavî Sûrya-sutâś=cha gâvaḥ | lôka-trayaṁ têna bhavêd=vi(dhi) dattaṁ yaḥ kâṁchanaṁ
40 gâṁ cha mahîñ=cha dadyât |(||) iti muni-vachanam=avadhârya pitrôr=uddêśên= âtmanaś=cha śrêyasê Śa-
41 kanṛipa-kâl-âtîta-samvatsara-nava-śatêshu⁸ triṁśad-adhikêshu pravarttamâna- Kîlaka-samvatsa-⁹
42 r-ântargata-Jyê(jyai)shṭha-pauraṇṇamâsyâṁ śrîmad-Avvêśvaradêva-¹⁰ pañchôpachâra-pôjâ-purassara-khaṇḍa-sphu-¹¹
43 ṭita-saṁskâr-âdy-arthaṁ sat-tapasvi-bhôjan-âchchhâdana-chchhâ[t*]tra-vidvajjan- âbhyâgat-âdy-upayôg-âdy-artha-
44 ñ=cha |¹² Kûshmâṇḍî-grâmas=âghaṭṭâ(ṭṭa)nâni¹³ kathyattê(ntê) pûrvvatô Maṇigrâma-prapâ dakshiṇatô Vâparavaṭa- 45 grâma-mârgaḥ paśchimataḥ Sachândalakapittha-grâma-vâhalâ | uttarataḥ kshâra- nadî 4 tathâ ऽ-
46 sanavîra-grâmas=tasya pûrvvatô dhâra-vâhalâ | dakshiṇataḥ Kâraparṇṇî-grâma- nadî | paśchimataḥ
47 samudraḥ¹⁴ uttaratô Gavahaṇa-grâma-nadî | tathâ Vaḍadgula-grâmas=tasya pûrvvatô Bhôgadêva-parvva-
48 ta-yamala-prastarô dakshiṇatô ऽkaḍada-vâhalâ | paśchimataḥ Paṭasaḍa-pâshâṇaḥ uttarataḥ

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......¹ Bal Gangadhar Sastri read Rahu-, here and below. With nîtiśâstrârtha-oṛiddha-sêvî compare ôgama-vṛiddha-sêvî in the Raghuvaṁśa, vi. 41.
......² Originally sarvvâm=êva (or perhaps sarvvân=êva) was engraved.
......³ Between âhûya and astu one misses a verb like saṁbôdhayati.
......⁴ Originally pavanaṁ was engraved.
......⁵ As the text stands, the Accusative dâna-phalam must be made depend on matvâ ; but I should rather have expected the Genitive dâna-phalasya, dependent on vivêka-buddhyâ.
......⁶ Metre : Indravajrâ.
......⁷ Read bhûr=.
......⁸ Read -saṁvatsara-.
......⁹ Read -saṁvatsa-.
......¹⁰ Bal Gangadhar Sastri read Arghêśvaradêva-, but Avvêśvaraº is quite clear in the original. See above, p. 293, note 4.
......¹¹ Possibly the intended reading may be -purassaraṁ khaṇḍa-, and in that case the adverb ending with -purassaraṁ ought to be taken to qualify the verb samadât (for samadâm) in line 56, below.
......¹² This sign of punctuation and all the others up to the end of the sentence in lie 56 are superfluous.
......¹³ the correction in this word seems to have been made already in the original.
......¹⁴ Here and in several places below the rules of saṁdhi have not been observed.