South Indian Inscriptions

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

18 mad-Râjyapâlapurê Gaṁgâyâṁ snâtvâ vidhivan=mantra-dêva-muni-manuja-bhûta- pitṛi-gaṇâṁa=tarppayitvâ timira-paṭala-pâṭana-paṭu-mahasa[m=U]shṇarôchisha[m= u]pasthâ-
19 y=Aushadhipati-sakala-śêsha(kha)raṁ samabhyarchchya tribhuvana-trâtur=Vvâsudêvasya pûjâṁ vidhâya prachura-pâyasêna havishâ havirbhujaṁ hutvâ mâtâpi[tr]ôr= âtmanaś=cha
20 punya(ṇya)-yaśô-bhivṛiddhayê |^[1] Kâśyapa-sagôtrâya | Kâśyap-Âvatsâra-Naidhruva- tripravarâya | Vâjasanêya-śâkhinê | paṁḍita-śrî-Guṇapâla-p[r]apautrâya | pa[ṁ*]ḍita-śrî-Lôkapâla-[pautrâya | paṁḍitita-śrî]-
21 Madanapâla-putrâya | paṁḍita-śrî-Dâmôdaraśa[r*]mmaṇê ^[2]vrâ(brâ)hmaṇây=âsmâbhir= ggôkarṇṇa-kuśalatâ-pûta-karatal-ôdva(da)ka-pûrṇṇa(rvva)m = â - c h a ṁ d r - â r k k a ṁ yâvach=chhâsanîkṛitya prada[tt]ô^[3] [matvâ]
22 yathâdîyamâna-bhâgabhôgakara-pravaṇika[ra*]-jalakara-gôkara-turushkadaṁḍa-prabhṛiti- sa[m]ast-âdâyân=âjñâvidhêyîbhûya dâsyarth=êti^[4] || Bhavanti ch=âtra dharmm- ânu[śaṁ(śâ)]sinaḥ
23 ślôkâḥ ||^[5] . . . . .
30 . . . . . || ۞ || Likhitaṁ ch=êdaṁ ^[6]tâṁvra-pattakaṁ karaṇika-ṭhakkura- śrî-Vîvîkên=êti || || ||

E.─ PLATE OF GÔVINDACHANDRA OF [VIKRAMA-]SAṀVAT 1207.

This also is a single plate, which measures about 1′ 5¾″ broad by 1′ 1½″ high, and is engraved on one side only. In the upper part it has a ring-hole, about ¾″ in diameter ; and to the plate belongs a circular seal which is similar to that of the inscription A. The plate contains 26 lines of generally well preserved writing. The size of the letters is between ¼ and 5/16″. The characters are Nâgarî, and the language is Sanskṛit. As regards orthography, the letter b is denoted by the sign for v, except in the word babhramur= ; occasionally the dental sibilant is employed for the palatal, and the palatal for the dental (as in sahaśra, twice) ; and the word haṁsô is written hansô, in line 25.

This is another inscription of the Paramabhaṭṭâraka Mahârâjâdhirâja Paramêśvara Gôvindachandradêva, who records that, on Monday, the 5th of the bright half of Pausha of the year 1207 (given in words and figures), on the occasion of the Uttarâyaṇa-saṁkrânti, after bathing at the Kôṭi-tîrtha at Benares, he granted the village of Lôlirupâḍâ,^[7] together with Tivâyi-kshêtra,^[8] in the Umbarâla pattalâ, to the Paṇḍita Dâmôdaraśarman, known to us already as the donee of the grants C. and D.─ The taxes specified (in lines 17) are the bhâgabhôgakara, pravaṇikara and turushkadaṇḍa. The grant (tâmra) was written by Vidyâdhara, the son of (the Karaṇika) Dhandhûka.^[9]

The date, for Vikrama-saṁvat 1207 expired, corresponds to Monday, the 25th December A.D. 1150, when the 5th tithi of the bright half commenced 3 h. 33 m., and the Uttarâyaṇa-saṁkrânti took place 3 h. 48 m., after mean sunrise.

The localities I am unable to identify.
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^[1] This and the other signs of punctuation in lines 20 and 21 are superfluous.
^[2] The akshara vrâ is engraved over śrî which had been originally engraved.
^[3] Read pradatta iti matvâ.
^[4] Read dâsyath=êti.
^[5] Here follow the eleven verses commencing Bhûmiṁ yaḥ pratigṛihṇâti, Śaṅkhaṁ bhadr-âsanaṁ, Bahubhir= vasudhâ, Sarvân=êtân=bhâvinaḥ, Shashṭiṁ varsha-sahasrâṇi, Gâm=êkâṁ, Taḍâgânâṁ sahasrêṇa, Sva-dattâṁ para-dattâṁ vâ, Vâri-hînêshv=araṇyêshu, Yân=îha dattâni and Vât-âbhra-vibhramam.
^[6] Read tâmra-.
^[7] Or, perhaps, Lôlikapâḍâ ; see the note on the text.
^[8] This was perhaps a pâṭaka of Lôlirupâḍâ.
^[9] Dhandhûka wrote the grant of Vikrama-saṁvat 1201, treated of above, Vol. V. p. 115, and is most probably identical with the Ṭhakkura Dhâdhûka who wrote the grant of Vikrama-saṁvat 1197, noticed above, Vol. VI. p. 114.