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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
parties, viz. the devotees of the god and those of the goddess. This writer was a Kāyastha named
Śambhudēva who was the son of Ambaipa (Ambaiya ?) and grandson of Jōggapaiya.
The place where the temples of the god and the goddess were situated is not mentioned in the
record. But, as we have seen, they must have stood at Saṁyāna within the dominions of
the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Kṛishṇa III. As indicated above, Saṁyāna is modern Sanjan in the Thana
District of Bombay. Among the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, Bhillamāla, as already pointed out, is modern Bhinmāl about 100 miles to the south-west of Jodhpur
in Rajasthan. It is interesting to note that there was a well-organised settlement of merchants
of Bhinmāl origin at Sanjan and that they had installed a Vaishnavite deity of their own and
named it after their home town. A large number of peoples of various countries are mentioned
in the description of Kṛishṇa III. Most of these tracts are wellknown. The Pāṇḍyas lived in the
Madurai-Ramanathapuram-Tirunelveli region, the Ōḍras in modern Orissa and the Siṁhalas
in Ceylon. The original territory of the Chōlas was in the Tanjavur-Tiruchirappalli area and of the
Pārasīkas in Persia. The name Andhra was apparently used to indicate the kingdom of the contemporary Eastern Chālukya king of Vēṅgī, while the name Draviḍa was probably applied to Toṇḍaimaṇḍalam, the territory of the Pallavas in older times. It is difficult to locate the Varvaras
known from early Indian literature as a people of the north-west of India.[1] The Tajjikas
or Tājikas were the people of Arabia and Vaṅkīṇa may be the same as Vōkkāṇa mentioned
in Varāhamihira’s Bṛihatsaṁhitā (XIV, 20) and identified with modern Wakhan in Central Asia.[2]
The Hūṇas[3] appear to have lived in the Punjab and the Khasas[4] in Kashmir and Nepal. The
Pratihāras of the Gurjara stock ruled over wide areas of North India ; but, even as last as the
first half of the eleventh century, Al Bīrūnī speaks of the Jodhpur-Alwar-Bharatpur region of
Rajasthan as Gujarāt, i.e. Gurjaratrā or the home of the Guejaras.[5] Mālava, the land of the
Mālavīyas, seems to have included in this age the territory around Ujjayinī.
TEXT[6]
[Metres : verse 1 Drutavilambita ; verses 2-3, 20 Sragdharā ; verse 4 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; verses
5, 8 Mālinī ; verses 6-7, 18-19 Upajati ; verses 9, 11, 14-16 Vasantatilakā ; verses 10,
17 Anushṭubh ; verse 12 Upagīti.]
1 Ōm[7] Bhagavatyai namaḥ | Bhagavatī bhavatāṁ bhava-bhī-bhidē bhavatu Śuṁbha-Niśuṁbha-
vināśanī |
2 suravar-āsura-kinnara-Nārada-prabhṛitibhir=vvinutā varad=ābhavā || [1*] Gōtra[ṁ] bhitvā(ttvā)
na bhūtō na madhupa-
3 vasatir=nnō sadā dharmma-vakrō n=ākrāntō daṇḍakō=s[y]a(yaṁ) na cha para-pavan-ākaṁpitō
nā nu hīnaḥ |
4 n=ādhastān=nīta-mūla-prakṛitir=ati-ghanō nō raṇē datta-pṛishṭaḥ(shṭhaḥ) sō=pūrvō=st=īha
vaṁśō Yadu-kula-
5 tilakō Rāshṭrakūṭ-ēśvarāṇāṁ(ṇām) || [2*] Tatr=āsīd=Dantidurggaḥ sakala-guṇa-nidhiḥ
Kṛipṇa(shṇa)rājas=tato=bhū-
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[1] Cf. Pargiter, The Mārkaṇḍēya Purāna, p. 319, note ; Ind. Cult., Vol. VIII, p. 62.
[2] Cf. Ind. Cult., op. cit., p. 55.
[3] Cf. Prgiter, op. cit., p. 379, note ; Ind. Cult., op. cit., p. 59.
[4] See Pargiter, op. cit., p. 346, note ; Stein, Rājataraṅgiṇī, trans., Vol. I, pp. 47-48 (note on I, 317) ; Vol. II,
p. 430.
[5] Cf. JNSI, Vol. VIII, pp. 135 ff. The Daulatpurā plate (above, Vol. V, pp. 211 ff. ; cf. Bhandarkar’s List,
No, 28) of 843 A.D. includes the Jodhpur region in Gurjaratrā. In the seventh century A.D., the Chinese pilgrim
Hiuen-tsang mentions Pi-lo-mo-lo (i.e. Bhillamāla or Bhinmāl) as the capital of Ku-che-lo (i.e. Gurjara).
[6] From impressions.
[7] Expressed by symbol.
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