South Indian Inscriptions

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Bhandarkar
T. Bloch
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E. Hultzsch
F. Kielhorn
H. Krishna Sastri
H. Luders
Narayanasvami Ayyar
R. Pischel
J. Ramayya
E. Senart
V. Venkayya
G. Venkoba Rao
J. PH. Vogel
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Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

No. 14.─ FIVE COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTIONS

OF GOVINDACHANDRA OF KANAUJ.

BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E. ; GÖTTINGEN.

At Professor Hultzsch’s request I shall give an account here of five more^[1] copper-plate inscriptions of the Gâhaḍavâla king Gôvindachandradêva of Kanauj, the originals of which are now^[2] in the Provincial Museum of Lucknow, and of which ink-impressions were supplied by the Government Epigraphist. Before doing so, I take the opportunity of submitting a few general remarks.

While only three stone-inscriptions, of very small importance, have been hitherto discovered of the Gâhaḍavâla kings of Kanauj, the number of their known copper-plates amounts to no less than fifty-five.^[3] The details are as follows :─

One plate of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Madanapâla, recording a grant that was made by his father, the Mahârâjâdhirâja Chandradêva.
One plate of Madanapâla and his queen Pṛithvîśrîkâ(?).
Three plates of Gôvindachandra, of the reign of his father Madanapâla.
Twenty-six plates of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Gôvindachandra.
Two plates of Gôvindachandra and his mother Râlhaṇa (Râlha)-dêvî.
One plate of Gôvindachandra and his queen Nayaṇakêlidêvî.
One plate of Gôvindachandra and his queen Gôsaladêvî.
One plate of Gôvindachandra and his son, the Yuvarâja Âsphôṭachandra (below, C.).
Two plates of Gôvindachandra and his son Râjyapâla (Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 21, and below, D.).
One plate of the reign of Gôvindachandra, recording a grant made by the Siṅgara price Vatsarâja.
Two plates of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Vijayachandra and his son, the Yuvarâja Jayachchandra.
Fourteen plates of the Mahârâjâdhirâja Jayachchandra.
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^[1] See above, Vol. IV. p. 97 ff. ; Vol. V. p. 112 ff.; and Vol. VII. p. 98 ff.
^[2] The plates were “ found by a contractor at Benares near the Bhadaini temple at a depth of about 5 feet from the surface in the course of excavations for the water-works conducted on the spot in April 1899.” See Mr. Venkayya’s Annual Report for the year ending with May 1905, p. 6.
^[3] There can hardly be any doubt that of a royal family of which we possess 55 copper-plates, there must have existed also a considerable number of stone-inscriptions. The stones on which these inscriptions were engraved have been probably used for building purposes or lie buried in the ground. The same may be said regarding the records of e.g. the Maitrakas of Valabhî, of whom we have 40 plates and only a single, most insignificant stone-inscription ; and of the E. Chalukyas of Vêṅgî, of whom 29 copper-plate inscriptions have been published, and not a single stone-inscription.

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