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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA the sign is shown turning to the right. The rounded and cursive form of kh in line 4 is noteworthy. V has retained its triangular form. The sign for upadhmānīya looks like a superscript r (line .5). The final t occurs at the end, of line 7. As regards orthography, the consonant following r in a conjunct is doubled. Ignorance of the rule of sandhi may be noted in the expression punar=svaº (line 6) which should be punaḥ svaº or punas=svaº. There are other mistakes in the record, linguistic and scribal, which have been duly corrected. The language is Sanskrit and the composition is all prose. The charter is not dated. It may, however, be ascribed approximately to the sixth century on palaeographic considerations. The purport of the record may be briefly stated thus. As the request of Svāmikarāja, Dharmamahārāja Kāpālivarman, while he was residing at Pāmasākhēṭaka, registered a gift of land in the village of Śivapuraka of the former who in turn donated it to a Brāhmaṇa named Bhavārya of the Kauṇḍinya gōtra, so that merit might accrue to him. The Bhōja king Kāpālivarman is made known to the students of history for the first time by the present inscription. He bears the epithet Dharmamahārāja like the Kadamba kings. It may not be unreasonable to surmise that Svāmikarāja of the plates is the same as the Chālukya chief Svāmirāja who was victorious in eighteen battles and was killed by the Early Chālukya king Maṅgalēśa as disclosed by the Nerūr plates of the latter.[1]
Śivapuraka-grāma may be either Shivapur in the Supa Pēṭhā or another locality of that name in the Halyal Taluk of the Karwar District.[2] Śivapura-vishaya was a division round about Śivapuraka. I have not been able to identify Pāmasākhēṭaka. The expression Pukōlli-khajjāna cannot be explained. TEXT[3] First Plate 1 Siddha[m|] [Vijaya-Pā]masā[4]-khēṭakād = Bhōjānā[ṁ*] Dharmmamahāra(rā)jasya śrī-
Kāpāli-
Second Plate. 6 Sva(svā)mikarājāka datta[ṁ] Svāmikarājēna punarsva(naḥsva)puṇy -ōpachaya-nimittaṁ
__________________________________________________________ [1] Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p.161. [As Svāmirāja probably belonged to the Chālukya house of Bādāmi, the
identification seems to be unwarranted.─ Ed.]
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