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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Gauḍa yoke before the thirteenth year of his reign, which must have fallen in the period 619-32 A.D., or, roughly speaking, about the close of the first quarter of the seventh century. Verse 12 of our record, mentioning Kōṅgōda as the place whence the charter was issued, is also found in the Puri (verse 11) and Buguda (verse 12) plates, although the Cuttack (Orissa) Museum plates, issued from a locality called Mādhavapura, have it (verse 14) in a modified form. Lines 32-34 speak of the king’s subordinated and officials in Kōṅgōda-maṇḍala, who were addressed in respect of the grant of the village of Amva(mba)grāma, attached to Dēvagrama-vishaya, in favour of a Brāhmaṇa named Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa (lines 34 ff.). In lines 40-44 some of the usual imprecatory and benedictory stanzas ate quoted with the introduction uktañ=cha Mānavē Dharma-śāstrē. The last three lines (lines 44-46) contain two stanzas (actually one and a half, as the first half of the second verse in omitted through oversight), which are also found in the Buguda and Puri plates. This is followed by the date with which the charter ends. According to the concluding stanzas, the charter was written by Upēndrasiṁha, son of Bhōgin Kuṇḍa, endowed with a seal (lāñchhita) by Jayasiṁha, and engraved by Bhōgin Chhēḍḍi, while its executor (dūtaka) was Gaṅgabhadra employed in the post of Pratihārin or officer in charge of the palace gate (cf. prātihāryē vyavasthitaḥ). The same Upēndrasiṁha was also the writer of the Cuttack (Orissa) Museum plates which were heated (tāpita) by Jayasiṁha for the affixing of the seal. The Parikud plates[1]of Ayaśōbhīta II Madhyamarāja (circa 665-95 A. D.), dated in the king’s 26th regnal year, appear to have been lāñchhita by Jayasiṁha, there called Pēṭāpāla (keeper of the record-boxes), although the learned editor of the epigraph could not read the particular section of the inscription. The Nivina grant[2] of Dharmarāja (circa 695-730 A.D.), possibly dated in the king’s ninth regnal year, was also lāñchhita by Jayasiṁha. As the intervening period between the 13th regnal year of Sainyabhīta Mādhavavarman II Śrīnivāsa and the 9th year of the reign of his grandson would cover about three quarters of a century, too long for the active period of man’s life, it is possible that Jayasiṁha of the Parikud plates and Nivina grant was a different person, probably a grandson of his namesake mentioned in the Buguda, Puri and Purushōttampur plates.
Of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, the location of those found in the introductory part of the charter has already been discussed by us in connection with the Banpur plates. I am not quite sure about the identification of the village called Ambagrāma and the vishaya or district named Dēvagrāma stated to have been situated in the maṇḍala of Kōṅgōda. TEXT[3] [Metres : verses 1, 4 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; verses 2, 11 Sragdharā ; verses 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 Vasantatilaka; verses 5, 13-17 Anushṭubh ; verse 8 Indravajrā ; verse 12 Āryā.] First Plate
1 Siddham[4] Svasti [||*] Indōr=ddha(r=ddhau)ta-mṛiṇāla-tan[tu]bhir=ivā(va) ślī(śli)shṭāḥ karai-
[ḥ*] kōma[lair]=va(r=ba)ddh-ā-
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[1] Above, Vol. XI, pp. 281-87.
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