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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 28.─ SOME RECORDS OF THE RASHTRAKUTA KINGS OF MALKHED. D.- Mantrawâḍi inscription of the time of Amôghavarsha I.─ A.D. 865. This inscription has been mentioned by me in Vol. III. above, p. 163, note 1. It was originally brought to my notice by Mr. Govind Gangadhar Deshpande. And I obtained ink-impressions of it in 1882. It is now edited for the first time. The collotype is from an ink-impression received in 1886 from Mr. Cousens, Superintendent of the Archæological Survey of the Bombay Presidency.
Mantrawâḍi is a village about five miles towards the east-by-north from Shiggaon, the
head-quarters of the Baṅkâpur tâluka of the Dhârwâr district. The Indian Atlas sheet
No. 42. (1827) shews it as ‘Munturrehdee.’ The Map of the Dhârwâr Collectorate (1874)
shews it as ‘Muntruwudee.’ The present record seems to indicate that its original name was
Elpuṇuse, or else Elaṁvaḷḷi.[4] And the purport of it places both Elpuṇuse and Elaṁvaḷḷi in
the Purigere district,─ the Purigere three-hundred of other records. The inscription is on a [4] The maps do not shew, in the neighbourhood of Mantrawâḍi, any villages with names resembling these two. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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