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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY CHALUKYAS OF GUJARAT TRANSLATION has granted, with a libation of water of the increase of the religious merit and fame of (his) mother and father and of himself, the village Asatti in the Kanhavala ahara1 which is situated in the Bahirika vishaya, together with udranga and uparikara, to Bhogikkasvamin, (the son) of Kikkasvamin, the younger brother of Matristhavira (who is) the son of Samantasvamin, (who is himself) the son of Gomisvamin2 of the Kasyapa gotra, who is a student of the Adhvaryu (Veda) and a resident of Navasarika.
(L. 18) (This) religious gifts should be consented to by all future kings, bearing
in mind that wealth is as unsteady as the flame of a lamp struck by wind. (Here follows a benedictive verse).
(L. 20) This (charter) has been written by the Sandhivigrahika, the illustrious Dhanañjaya, on the thirteenth (tithi) of the bright (fortnight) of Magha in the year four hundred increased by twenty-one, (in figures) 400 (and) 20 (and) I. Success !
Seal THESE plates were discovered at Nāsik the head-quarters of the Nāsik District of the Bombay State. They were brought to light by Rao Saheb G. S. alias Babasaheb Deshpande of Poona, who made them over to the Bhārata Itihāsa Samśōdhaka Maņdala, Poona. They have been published before, with lithographs, by Mr. G. H. Khare in the Sources of the Mediaval History of the Deccan, Vol. I (1930), pp. 8ff. I am grateful to the authorities of Mandala for permission to include them in this volume. I edit them here from excellent photographs kindly supplied by the Superintendent of the Archæological Survey, Western Circle. logical Survey, Western Circle. The copper-plates are two in number, each, measuring 8" broad, 4.7" high and 1" thick. They are held together by a ring which passes through a hole .4" in diameter in the centre of the top of each plate. This ring has a circular seal with the legend ŚrīDharāśraya in relief. The plates are inscribed on the inner side only. Their ends are raised into rims for the protection of the writing. A few aksharas have, however, been damaged by verdigris in lines 10-14 and 25-29, and some more have been completely lost by the breaking away of a small piece in the upperright corner of the first plate and the perforation of a large hole in lines 2-4. Fortunately, nothing of historical interest has been lost. The record consists of twenty-nine lines, of which fifteen are inscribed on the first, and the remaining fourteen on the second plate. The average size of the letters is .2". The characters are of the western variety of the southern alphabets. They resemble
in a general way those of the Ābhōņa and other grants of the Early Kalachuris. The
record has been carelessly written, the rules of sandhi and the distinction of long and short
vowels not being properly observed in several places. Some aksharas have, again, been
irregularly or imperfectly formed, see, e.g., āmīndyāy for āchchhindyād- in 1. 21, andla (?)-
tudēv- for –vaiśvadēv- in 1. 17. A final consonant is shows by a horizontal stroke at the
top in vasēt, 1.24. The sign of the upadhmānīya occurs in 1.21, and the numerical symbols
for 400, 30, 10 and 6 in 1.28. 1See above, p. 125, n. 19.
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