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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA of the Gujarât Chalukyas. As regards individual letters, attention may be drawn to the following signs : the initial ê, e.g. in êsha, and the initial ô[1] in Kumârivaḍaô, both in l. 20 ; the kh in likhitam=, l. 34, and askhalita-, l. 6 ; the ḍ, e.g. in pîḍita- and –maṇḍalaḥ, l. 10 ; the subscript ṇ in arṇṇava-, l. 21 ; the th,[2] e.g. in prithivyâm=apratirathaś=, l. 9, and dharmmârttha-, l. 32 ; the ph, e.g. in phalaṁ, l. 31 ; the two forms of l, e. g. in phalaṁ and °pâlanaṁ, l. 31, salilâ° and balôpâ-, l. 9 ; the final m and t in prajânâm, l. 17, and vasêt, l. 29 ; the jihvâmûlîya and upadhmânîya, e.g. in parah=kalaṅka-, l. 4, and vigrahah=parâ-, l. 7. The writing, in line 35, also contains numerical symbols[3] for 300, 60, 10, 5, and 1.─ The language of the inscription is Sanskṛit, and with exception of five benedictive and imprecatory verses in lines 28-32, the text is in prose. The orthography calls for few remarks. Instead of anusvâra the guttural and dental nasals are employed in the words vaṅśa, ll. 6 and 12, vaṅśya, l. 24, and pradhvansa, l. 16 ; final visarga is changed to the jihvâmûlîya in parah=kalaṅka- and rahitah=kula-, l. 4, and to the upadhmânîya in vigrahah=parâ-, l. 7, °patibhih=prabala-, l. 24, °mantavyah=pâla°, l. 27, and sâdhuh=punar=, l. 32 ; sh is (wrongly[4]) doubled after r in varshsha-, l. 28, and dh (correctly) before y in the word anuddhyâta, twice in line 14. Besides, the word pṛithivî is written prithivî in line 9, and a few times the rules of saṁdhi have been neglected. The inscription is one of Buddharâja, the son of Śaṁkaragaṇa who was the son of Kṛishṇarâja, of the family of the Kaṭachchuris.[5] It records an order of Buddharâja’s, issued from the royal residence or camp at Ânandapura, to the effect that he granted the village of Kumârivaḍaô, which was near to Bṛihannârikâ, in the Gôrajjâ-bhôga of the Bharukachchha-vishaya, to the Brâhmaṇ Bappasvâmin, an inhabitant of Ḍêbhaka. It is dated, in words and numerical symbols, on the 15th of the dark half of Kârttika of the year 361.
The names of the three kings or chiefs─ the inscription does not furnish any titles for them─ who are mentioned in the preceding paragraph, are not new to us. As the date of the inscription must undoubtedly be referred to the Kalachuri era, it would fall in either A.D. 609 or A.D. 610,[6] and it is therefore certain that the donor of the grant, Śaṁkaragaṇa’s son Buddharâja, is identical with that Buddharâja, the son of Śaṁkaragaṇa, who according to the Nerûr plates (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 161) was put to flight by the Western Chalukya Maṅgalarâja (Maṅgalêśa), and to whom the Bâdâmi (Mahâkûṭa) pillar-inscription (of A.D. 602 (?), ibid. Vol. XIX. p. 16) refers when it states that Maṅgalêśa, having set his heart upon the conquest of the northern region, conquered [the Kalatsûri] king Buddha and took away his wealth. Śaṁkaragaṇa, again, clearly is that ‘ Śaṁkaraṇa,’ the son of Kṛishṇarâja, whose feet according to the Sâṅkhêḍâ plate of Śântilla (Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 23) were meditated on by the Bhôgikapâla Mahâpîlupati Nirihullaka,[7] and our grant proves the correctness of Prof. Bühler’s suggestion (ibid. p. 22) that the reading Śaṁkaraṇaḥ of the Sâṅkhêḍâ plate should be altered to Śaṁkaragaṇaḥ. Though the eulogy of the three kings, which fills just one half of the inscription, does not contain any historical allusions, it is not void of interest. Some of the epithets applied to the ________________________________________________ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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