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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Budhasvâmin ” (ll. 41-43). The grant consisted of “ a filed measuring one hundred bhaktîs at the southern boundary of the village Chandraputraka in Mâlavaka, in the said district (vishaya).[1] The boundaries of this (field are) :─ to the east, the boundary of the village Dhammaṇahaḍḍikâ ; to the south, the boundary of the village Dêvakulapâṭaka ; to the west, the boundary of the field of the Mahattara Vîratara-maṇḍalin ; at the north-western corner, the small tank (called) Nirgaṇḍî ; (and) to the north, (the field of)) Vîratara-maṇḍalin ” (ll. 44-46). The date of the grant was “ the year 300 (and) 20 (and) 1 ; (the month) Chaitra ; the dark (fortnight) ; the 3rd (tithi) ” (l. 54). Each of the two donees is called a son of Budhasvâmin, a student of the Vâjasanêya śâkhâ, and a member of the Pârâśara gôtra. This suggests that they were sons of the same father, and that the epithet ‘ who has come from Udumbaragahvara,’[2] which is applied to the first donee (l. 41), holds good for the second as well. The first donee is stated to have resided at Ayânakâgrahâra and to have belonged to the Trivêdins of Daśapura. From this I conclude that Ayânakâgrahâra was a quarter or suburb of Daśapura. The second donee, who was probably the brother of the first, resided at, and belonged to the Chaturvêdins of, Agastikâgrahâra, which may have been another hamlet of Daśapura. This town is the modern Dasôr or Mandasôr, the chief town of a district of the Scindia’s dominions,[3] about 52 miles north of Rutlam.
As in the inscription A., the land granted belonged to the province of Mâlavaka. It consisted of a field in the south of Chandraputraka and was bounded in the east by Dhammaṇahaḍḍikâ and in the south by Dêvakulapâṭaka. In his letter to Mr. Marshall, the Dewan of Rutlam thought of identifying these places, successively, with Chandodia, Dhamnod and Divel Khedi[4] ─ three villages in the south-west of Nôgâwâ where the two grants were discovered. But the phonetical correspondence of each of the three pairs of names is only superficial ; besides, Dhamnod is not in the east, but in the south-west, and Divel Khedi not in the south, but in the north-west, of Chandodia. Hence the Dewan’s identification must be rejected. Dr. Fleet has very kindly searched the maps with the following result :─ “ Eleven miles south-south-east from Mandasôr, there is a large village which is shewn as ‘ Dhamnar ’ in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 35, S.E. (1891), and as ‘ Dhamnar ’ in the Bhopal and Malwa Topographical Survey sheet No. 38 (1882). I suspect that this is the Dhammaṇahaḍḍikâ of the record. But neither of the maps shews anything answering to any of the other names ; unless Dêvakulapâṭaka may be found in the ‘ Dilauda ’ of the maps, four miles west-south-west from ‘ Dhamnár,’ and in quite the right position to be on the south of Chandraputraka,─ ‘ Dhamnár ’ being taken to be the village on its east.[5] And, of course, a possible identification of only one place is not sufficient to conclusively locate the record.”
The date of this inscription, [Gupta-]Saṁvat 321 (i.e. A.D. 640-41), falls between that of
the first Nôgâwâ grant─ Saṁvat 320─ and the earliest date of Dharasêna IV.─ Saṁvat 326[6]─
and thus extends the known period of the reign of Dhruvasêna II. by one year.
[1] See the remarks on page 189 above.
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