North Indian Inscriptions

TIDGUNDI PLATES OF VIKRAMADITYA VI.

by the phrase Châlukya-Vikrama-varsha, and the seventh year of it, the year Dundubhi, should correspond to Śaka-Saṁvat 1004 expired.¹ But the date does not work out satisfactorily either for this year or for the years immediately preceding and following it ; for the first tithi of the bright half of Kârttika ended, in Śaka-Saṁvat 1003 expired on Wednesday, the 6th October, A. D. 1081, and in Śaka-Saṁvat 1004 expired on Tuesday, the 25th October, A.D. 1082 ; and in Śaka-Saṁvat 1005 expired it commenced 0 h. 9 m. before mean sunrise of Saturday, the 14th October, A.D. 1083, and ended 2 h. 29 m. before he end of the same day.

......Of the localities mentioned, Ṭakkalikâ, one of the group of the Vâyvaḍa-Twelve, may perhaps be tha village of ‘ Takulkee,’ about twelve miles north-west of the city of Bijâpur and fourteen miles south-west of Tiḍgundi. Pratyaṇḍaka, after which the Pratyaṇḍaka-Fourthousands district was named, and the city of Bhôgâvatî,² from which Muñja took one of his birudas, I am unable to identify.

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First Plate.

1 ⁴Jayaty=âvishkri(shkṛi)taṁ Vishṇôr=vvârâhaṁ kshôbhit-ârṇṇavaṁ [|*] dakshiṇ-ô-
2 nnata-daṁshṭr-âgra-viśrâṁta-bhuvanaṁ vapuḥ || ⁵ Vapur–dalana-saṁbhramâ-
3 t=svanakha-raṁdhra-nashṭê ripau kva yâta iti vismayât=prahi-
4 ta-loôchanas=sarvvataḥ⁶ [|*] vri(vṛi)th=êti kara-dhûnamê nipatiaṁ pu-
5 rô⁷ rêṇuvan=nirîkshya⁸ bhuvi Dânavaṁ jyati jâyati-hâsô
6 Harih || ⁹Pâṁḍu-paṁkaja-saṁlîna-madhup-âlî-samaṁ ga-
7 laṁ [|*] yô vi(bi)bhartti vidhêyât=tê nâ kapâlî sa maṁgalaṁ ||
8 Svasti [|*] Samastabhuvanâśraya-Śrî-Pri(pṛi)thvî-vallabha- mahâ-
9 râjâdhirâja-paramêsva(śva)ra-paramabhaṭṭâraka-Satyâ-
10 śrayakulatilaka- Châlukyâbharṇa- śrî-Tribhuvanama-
11 lladêvasya¹⁰ vijaya-râjyê śrî-Kalyâṇapurê va(ba)hu-divasa-

Second Plate ; First Side.

12 sthira-nivâsini pri(pṛi)thvî[ṁ] pâlayati sati śrî-Viku(kra)makâla-
13 saṁvatsarêshu shaṭsu¹¹ atîtêshu saptamê Duṁdubhi-saṁvatsarê prava-
14 rttamânê tasya Kâ[r*]ttika-su (śu)ddha-pratipad-Âdivârê [||*] Tatpâdapa-
15 dm-ôpajîvinô Muṁja-mahîpatêr=anvqayaḥ [|*] Pratyaṇḍaka-chatuḥsa-
16 haśra(sra)dês(ś)-âdhi[atiḥ Siṁda-vaṁsa(śa)-prabhavaḥ¹² raṇâṁgaṇêshv=aga-
17 ṇita-bhîr=Bhîmô nâma tad-agrasutaḥ prakyaâta-kîrtti
18 raṇâṁgaṇ-ârjjit-ôrjita-jayaśrî-vallabhaḥ Siṁdarâ-
19 jô nâma tat-sutasya Mu[ṁ]ja-mahîpatêḥ prasa(śa)sti-sta[ṁ]bhaḥ || Sva-
20 sti [|*] Samadhigatapṁchamahâśavda(bda)-mahâmaṇḍalêsva(śva)raṁ¹³ Bhôgâ-
21 vatîpura-paramêsva(śva)ra- Phaṇîṁdra-vaṁśôdbhava- Nâga-kulatilaka-
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......¹ See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 109 ff.
......² Compare ibid. Vol. VIII. p. 6 ; Dr. Fleet’s Kanarese Dynasties, p. 97 ; above, p. 231 ; and below, p. 316.
......³ From impressions supplied by Dr. Fleet.
......⁴ Metre : Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
......⁵ Metre : Pṛithvî.
......⁶ Originally =sârkvutaḥ was engraved.
......⁷ Originally purau was engraved, but the superscript line which turns ô into au has been struck out. Over the va of the following word there is a sign of anusvâra which has been struck out.
......⁸ This akshara, kshya, looks rather like chchhya in the original.
......⁹ Metre : Ślôka (Anushṭubh).
......¹⁰ In accordance with what follows, we should have expected here ºdêvê, without vijaya-râjyê.
......¹¹ Read shaṭsv=.
......¹² Read ºbhavô. In the following word the sign of anusvâra is engraved above ga, not above ṇâ.
......¹³ Read ºśvara.