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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA The donee of the present plates is Bhaṭṭa Risiyapa of the Kāśyapa gōtra, who was a resident of Dhārāśiva, belonged to the family of Traividyas (i.e. learned in three Vēdas) and was a student of the Ṛigvēda. He was the son of Bhaṭṭa Annasvāmin. It is to be noted that with some variations of spelling in the name the figures in the same capacity in three more records of Gōvinda III, viz. the Sīsavai,[1] Daśapura[2] and Lōhārā[3] grants. The grandfather of Risiyapa is not mentioned in the present grant. According to the Sīsavai charter he was Vishṇu-chaturvēda who, it may be noted, belonged to the family of Chāturvidyas and not Traividyas as stated in other grants. He is called mās-ōpavāsin in the Lōhārā and Daśapura plates. As stated in the last two lines of the record, the charter was written in the present of the king by Kukkāyya who was the son of the general Gauḍa, honoured by the five great titles, and by Dēvayya,[4] officer in charge of the records. Kukkaika who wrote the Añjanavatī charter seems to be identical with this Kukkāyya. The same person seems to be responsible for the writing of the Paiṭhaṇ plates, as the last sentence in the record (line 73) can be read as likhitaṁ cha Paramēśvar-ādra(jña)yā Srī-Kukkāyēyē(n=ē)ti, although Kielhorn, its editor, did not decipher this portion. Thus it seems that Kukkāyya wrote the charters in which the old draft was used and that Aruṇāditya wrote the others in which the new draft was utilised. As for the places mentioned in the present grant, Alaṁpura is the present Alaṁpūr, near the Alaṁpūr Road railway station on the Central Railway, 3 miles to the north of the Tuṅgabhadrā river. Jharikā, the donated village, may be modern Zerï in the Kelapur Taluk of the Yeotmal District. Pōṇa, the headquarters of the territorial unit in which Jharikā was situated, may be modern Pōhanā on the bank of the Wardhā river in the Hinganghat Taluk of the Wardha District. Of the boundary villages, Taluti may be identified with the present Tarōdī, 3 miles to the east, Vidurāmra with Uṁbari about 4 miles to the south, and Māragrāma with Mārēgāon 5 miles to the north of Zarī. Talabhī cannot be identified.
TEXT [Metres : Verses 1, 23, 29-30, 32-33, 35 Anushṭubh ; verses 2-3, 5-6, 8-9, 15, 24-25 Vasantatilaka ; verses 4, 19, Upajāti ; verse 7 Gīti ; verses 10, 17, 20-22 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; verses 11-14, 26, 28 Āryā ; verses 16, 18 Sragdharā ; verses 27, 31, 34 Indravajrā ; verse 36 Pushpitāgrā.] First Plate
1 Ōm[5] [|*] Sa vō=vyād=Vōdhasā dhāma yan=nābhi-kamalaṁ kṛitaṁ(tam) [|*] Haraś=cha
yasya kāṁtaṁ(t-ēṁ)du-kalayā kam=alaṁkṛitaṁ(tam) |[| 1*] Āśī(sī)tdva(d=dvi)-
shaḥti(shat-ti)mi-
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[1] Above, Vol. XXIII, p. 205.
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