North Indian Inscriptions

PATTADAKAL INSCRIPTION OF KIRTIVARMAN II.

TEXT.¹

1 Ôm Ôṁ² Nama[ḥ*] Śivâya [||*] Sa³ jayatu vâma-bâhu-parichuṁbita⁴-vadana- payôdharô-
2 sthaḷô⁵ aḷi-kuḷa-lôḷa-lîḷa⁶-aḷakâvaḷi-vidhṛita⁷-karâgra-maṇḍaḷô⁸ daśaśatanayana-kiraṇa-
3 parivarddhita⁹-râga-ras-âtivarddhitô vikasita-puṇdarîka-pratimô Hara-Gauri¹⁰-saṁgamô¹¹ sa jayatu [||*]
4 Chaḷukya¹²-vaṁśa-varddhamâna-Raghur=iva Kaliyugâ(ga)-nisṛishṭa-man[â*]ḥ Sûryya¹³- sutam=iva¹⁴
5 dâna-rataḥs=sadâ¹⁵ Vṛikôdaram=iva¹⁶ sâhasa-rasikaḥ śrî-niravadya-vudâra¹⁷-Vijayâ-
6 ditya-Satyâśraya-śrîpri(pṛi)thivîval[l*]abha¹⁸-mahârâjâdhirâja-paramêśvara-b h a ṭ ṭ â r a – kêna¹⁹
7 sthâpitô mahâ²⁰-śaila-prâsâda-śrî-Vijayêśvara-bhaṭṭârakas=tasya dakshiṇa-dig-bhâgê [|*] Śrî-
8 Vijayâdityadêvasy=âtmajaḥ priyaḥ²¹ puttraḥ śrî-anivârita²² samasta-sâmant²³- [â*]nata-pâdayugmaḥ
9 Kâñchîpura-vimarddana²⁴-śrî-Vikramâditya-Satyâśraya-śrîpri(pṛi)thivî²⁵vallabha-m a h â- râjâdhirâja-paramêśvara-
________________________________________________________________

......¹ From the estampages and ink-impressions.— The numbering of the lines follows the version which is in the local characters. All differences between the two versions are shown in the following notes ; except that I have not thought it necessary to do more than draw attention here to the point that the Nâgarî version uses only the ordinary l, and nowhere has ḷ.
......² In both versions, the first ôm is expressed by a plain symbol, and the second by the word itself in writing.
......³ We have here evidently a verse, in the Âkṛiti group of metres, though the form in which it stands is not correct : the first two pâdas contain twenty-two feet, and are exactly uniform with each other ; the third pâda, however, contains twenty-three feet, and matches the preceding two in only the last seven feet ; and the fourth pâda, though it contains only twenty-two feet, is uniform with the first and second in only the first seven feet. The verse seems to me to have been quoted, with imperfect recollection, from some Śaiva poem, similar to the Vaishṇava Gîta-Gôvinda. And the third and fourth pâdas might be put right by adopting some such reading as daśaśataraśmi-pâda-parivarddhita-kamala-ras-âtivarddhita-vikasita-puṇḍarîka-ruchimân sa jayatu Hara-Gauri-saṁgamaḥ.

>

......⁴ The Nâgarî version (line 1) has ºvâhu-parichumvita.
......⁵ Read ºpayôdhara-sthaḷô ; the following a of aḷi ought to have been elided, but was retained for the sake of the metre.— The Nâgarî version (lines 1-2) has payôddharô ; the other payadharô.
......⁶ The hiatus here, which is in both versions, is intentional, for the sake of the metre.
......⁷ The Nâgarî version (lines 2-3) has viddhṛita.
......⁸ Read ºmaṇḍaḷaṇḥ ; saṁdhi being not proper at the end of the second pâda.
......⁹ The Nâgarî version (line 3) has parivarddhitta.
......¹⁰ The î of gaurî is shortened for the sake of the metre.
......¹¹ In the version in local characters, the ga was at first omitted, and then was inserted below the line.
......¹² The Nâgarî version (line 5) has, either chchaluki, for chaluki ; or possibly chuluki, with the subscript u of the first syllable damaged in such a way as to give the appearance of chcha.
......¹³ Here, and all through, in the Nâgarî version y is not doubled after r.
......¹⁴ Read ºsuta iva. The Nâgarî version (lines 5-6) makes the same mistake.
......¹⁵ Read ºratas=sadâ ; or, as in the Nâgarî version (line 6), ºrataḥ sadâ.
......¹⁶ Read vṛikôdara iva. The Nâgarî version (line 6) makes the same mistake.
......¹⁷ Read ºniravady-ôdâra. The Nâgarî version (line 6) has the same peculiarity.
......¹⁸ The Nâgarî version (line 7) has ºpṛithivîvallabha, correctly.
......¹⁹ Read ºbhaṭṭârakas=têna.
......²⁰ The Nâgarî version (line 8) has either mâhâ, or maḥhâ.
......²¹ The Nâgarî version (line 9) has pṛiyaḥ.
......²² Read śry-anivâritaḥ. The hiatus, and the omission of the visarga, are in both versions.
......²³ The Nâgarî version (line 9) has ºsâmaṁt.
......²⁴ The Nâgarî version (line 10) has ºvimarddhanaḥ.
......²⁵ The Nâgarî version (line 10) has ºpṛithivî, correctly.