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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Rāshāhī, is clearly dated in the 19th year of his reign. The other manuscript belongs to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The late Mahāmahōpādhyāya Haraprasād Śāstrī published an illustration of the dated page of this manuscript in the journal of the Vaṅgīya Sāhitya Parishat of Calcutta.[1] Śāstrī read the date as the 39th year ; but a close examination of the illustration under a lens tends to show that the date is 32. Thus Harivarman is to be credited with a reign of at least 32 years.[2] The name of the donee of the grant is unfortunately damaged by a crack in the plate which runs right across the name. He is stated to have served as the Śāntivārika (sprayer of propitiatory sacred water) to the king. His gōtra was Vatsa with the usual fiv pravaras, and he belonged to the Āśvalāyana branch of the Ṛigvēda. His father was Padmanābha and grandfather Vēdagarbha. His great-grandfather’s name is rather obscure and reads like Jayarakshita. As the Vatsa gōtra is to be met with among all the three prominent sections of Bengal Brāhmaṇas, viz., Rāḍhīya, Vārēndra and Vaidika, it is difficult to say to which section the donee belonged. The land granted measured 86 drōṇas[3] of the cultivable type. It lay in the village of Vara-parvvata in the Mayūraviḍja[4] vishaya in Pañchavāsa[4]-maṇḍala within the Pauṇḍra bhukti. The bhukti of Pauṇḍravardhara is well-known. I am unable to locate the village granted. The inscription is undated and does not bear the usual endorsements at the end.
TEXT Obverse 1 to 26 (damaged)
Reverse
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[1] Vaṅgīya Sāhitya Parishat Patrikā, Vol. XXVII, illustration No. 3.
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