South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

All these plates were issued during the ninety years from A.D. 1097 to A.D. 1187. Excepting the genealogy of the family and dates for each king from Chandradêva to Jayachchandra, there is in them no historical information of any particular value.^[1] But the plates are of great interest on account of the very large number of district and villages mentioned in them. Nearly all these localities remain to be identified ; and it is with the view of perhaps inducing others, especially residents of the United Provinces, to help in the work of identification, that I give here an alphabetical list of all names of districts that occur in the plates. So for as I can judge, most of these districts would have been called after larger villages or towns, some of which undoubtedly are still in existence.

List of districts mentioned in the plates.

Amvu(mbu)âlî-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 138, line 20 (The inscription grants the village of Dêûpâlî on the banks of the D[ai]vahâ. Daivahâ apparently is the modern ‘ Deoha ’ which according to Thornton’s Gazetteer, p.333, is another name of the river Gogra.)
Antarâla-pattalâ ; Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXI. p. 123.
Asurêsa-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 11, line 20.
Bhaïlavata-paṭṭala(?) ; Jour, Roy. As. Soc. 1896, p. 787.
Bhîmamayûtâsa . . -pattalâ ; above, Vol. V. p. 117, line 13.
Dayaḍâmî-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 140, line 18.
Dêva[ha]lî-pattalâ ; ibid. Vol. XV. p. 7, line 14.
Dhaṇêsaramaua-pattalâ ; ibid. Vol. XVIII. p. 11, line 8.
Gôyara-pattalâ (in Ôṇavala-pathaka) ; above, Vol. V. p. 114, line 15. (Gôyara perhaps is the ‘ Gowra ’ in Indian Atlas, sheet No. 102, long 83º 20′, lat. 26º 47′.)
Haladôya-pattalâ ; above, Vol. IV. p. 101, line 14 ; and Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXVII. p. 243.
[Ha?]thauṇḍa-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 21.
Jâru[ttha]-pattalâ ; ibid. p. 141, line 18 ; and p. 142, line 16.
Jiâvai-pattalâ ; above, Vol. IV. p. 119, line 14 ; or, which is the same,─
Jîâvatî-pattalâ (in Pañchâla-dêśa); Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 103, line 10 ; and Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 360, line 8.
Kachchhôha-pattalâ ; above, Vol. IV. p. 116, line 12 ; and p. 129, line 19.
Kaṅgali-pattalâ ; ibid. p. 127, line 17.
Kâṭi-pattalâ ; ibid. p. 102, line 13.
[Kêsâurê ?]-pattalâ ; ibid. p. 105, line 12.
Kôsaṁva(mba)-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 137, line 18.
Kô[ṭhô]takôṭiâvarahôtta[ra] ; above, Vol. IV. p. 108, line 11.
Mahasô-pattlâ ; ibid. p. 122, line 18 ; or, which is the same,─
Mahasôya-pattalâ ; above, Vol. V. p. 115, line 12.
Mâ[ṇa]ra-pattalâ ; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 131, line 20.
Nandiṇî-pattalâ ; below, p. 155, line 13.
Nandivâra-pattalâ ; below, p. 154, line 12.
Navagâma-pattalâ ; Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. LVI. P. I. p. 109, line 14 ; and above, Vol. IV. p. 113, line 13.
Nêulasatâvisikâ ;^[2] above, Vol. IV. p. 110, line 9.
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^[1] The plates generally state that Yaśôvigraha, the reputed founder of the Gâhaḍavâla family came when ‘ the lines of the protectors of the earth born in the solar race had gone to heaven.’ The kings thus referred to are the Pratihâras of Kanauj who, as we now know, derived their descent from the Sun. The Gâhaḍavâla king who first took possession of Kanauj was, Yaśôvigraha’s grandson Chandradêva, for whom we have a date in A.D. 1097.
^[2] The satâvisikâ of this name is derived from the Prâkṛit sattâvîsaṁ or Sanskṛit saptaviṁśati, ‘ twenty-seven,’─ Compare, in other plates, names of districts like Nakshisapura-chaturaśîtikâ, etc.