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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY KALACHURIS TRANSLATION Success ! Hail ! From the victorious camp pitched at Vidiśā–– (L. 18) ‘Be it known to you ! For the increase of religious merit of (Our) mother and father and Ourself, We have granted with a libation of water the village (called the hamlet) of Kōniyas adjacent to Bhattaurikā (situated) in the Vatanagara bhōga, together with udranga and uparikara, inclusive of all receipts and exempt from all gifts, forced labour and special rights, which is not to be entered by chātas and bhatas, according to the maxim of waste land, (which is) to be enjoyed by a succession of sons and sons’ sons as long as the moon, the sun, the ocean and the earth will endure─to the Brāhmana Bōdhasvāmin of the Kāśyapa gōtra, who is a student of the Vājasanēya Mādhyandina (śākhā) and a resident of Vatanagara for the maintenance of bali, charu, vaiśvadēva and other (religious) rites.
(For a translation of lines 23-27, see above, p. 44.)
(L. 27) And it has been said by the holy Vyāsa, the redactor of the Vēdas─ The year 300 (and) 60, (the month) Bhadrapada, the bright (fortnight), (the lunar day) 10 (and ) 3. No. 15; Plate IX THESE plates were found in the possession of Patel Karsan Dāji of Sarsavnī (Sarasavanī), a village four and a half miles south of Padrā in the Padrā subdivision of the Baroda District in the Bombay State. They were edited, with photolithographs and a translation, by Prof. Kielhorn in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VI, pp. 294 ff. I edit them here from the same lithographs. âThese are two copper-plates, either of which measures 10 3/8″ broad by 7⅜″
high and is inscribed on one side only. Their margins are raised into rims. Through
two holes at the bottom of the first and the top of the second plate are passed two unsoldered
plain rings, measuring 2½″ and 2¼″ in diameter. There is no seal and no indication
of one having been attached to the plates. The writing is well-done and throughout
in an excellent state of preservation. The size of letters is about 3/16ââ.1â The 1Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 294.
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