South Indian Inscriptions

INCRIPTIONS OF THE SENDRAKAS

asesha-bala-rajyah for apahrit-asesha-bali-rajyah, 11.8-9. Besides these, there are several mistakes of sandhi and omissions and transpositions of syllables and words which are pointed out in the foot-notes to the transcribed text. As regards orthography, we find that ri is used instead of the vowel ri in several places, see, e.g.,-prithu-, 1.1, -avrita-, 1.30, krishn-, 1.33; the letter preceding and following r is correctly repeated in -vikkram-akkranta-, 1.4, -kriy-otsarppan-, 1.21, sarvv-adana, 1.23 etc., but wrongly in varshsha-, 1.34

The plates were issued by the illustrious Prithivivallabha, Nikumbha Allasakti of the family of Sendraka kings, who was the son of the illustrious lord of men, Adityasakti, and the grandson of the lord of men, the illustrious Bhanusakti. No place of issue is mentioned in the grant. The object of the inscription is to record the grant of the village Balisa in the ahara of Treyanna. The donee was Bappasvamin of the Bharadvaja gotra and the Madhyandina sakha of the Vajasaneya or White Yajurveda. He was then a resident of Vijay-Aniruddhapuri. The purpose of the grant was to provide for the maintenance of bali, charu, vaisvadeva, agnihotra and other rites. The Dutaka was Srivallabha Bappa and the scribe the Sandhivigrahadhikrita Devadinna.¹ The grant was written by the order of a Mahabaladhikrita whose name is imperfectly written here, but who was probably identical with the illustrious Vasava mentioned with the same title in the Kasare grant. We learn from lines 38-39 that the scribe, Devadinna, was his younger brother.

The date of the grant is expressed in words as the fifteenth (tithi) of the bright (fortnight) of Bhadrapada in the year 406 of an unspecified era. Like the date of the Kasare plates, this date also must be referred to the Kalachuri era. According to the epoch of 248-49 A.C., it would correspond, for the expired year² 406, to the 10th August 656 A.C. In the absence of the necessary details it does not admit of verification

Of the place-names in the present grant Trēyaņņa was identified by Dr. Bühler with the village Tēn near Bārdōli in the Surat District of Gujarat. It is evidently identical with Trēnna which is mentioned as the headquarters of an āhāra in the Bagumrā plates³ of Dhruva II of the Gujarat Rāshtrakūta branch and with Tēnna mentioned in the Bagumrā plates (second set)⁴ of the Rāshtrakūta king, Indra III. In the latter grant the place is said to be situated near Kammaņijja in the Lāta country and was bounded on the east by Vāradapallikā. This description completely agrees with the situation of Tēn which is only about 15 miles south-east of Kāmrēj, the modern representative of Kammaņijja and lies only about a mile to the west of Bārdōli, the ancient Vāradapallikā. Balisa, the village granted in the present plates, is plainly identical with Valīśā or Balīśa which is mentioned as defining the western boundary of the village Tēnna in the Bagumrā plates (second set) of Indra III. It can be identified with the modern Wanēsa which lies about two miles south-west⁵ of Tēn. Vijay-Āniruddhapurī cannot be identified, but it must have been situated not very far from Tēn. It is mentioned as the place of issue in the Surat plates6 of Vyāghrasena and was probably the capital of the Traikutakas.
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¹ He is the writer of the Kāsārē plates (No. 25, above). Both Vāsava and Dēvadinna, again, figure in another grant of Allaśakti found in Khandesh (N.I.A., Vol. I, p. 749).
² If the year was current, the date of the grant would correspond to the 22nd August 655 A. C.
³ Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 181.
⁴ Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, p. 36.
⁵ The identification was suggested by Dr. Bühler who pointed out that ‘the change of la to na is very common in Gujarāti, e.g., in nabān for labān.’ Wanēsa is not, however, to the south-east of Tēn as stated by Bühler.
⁶ Above, No. 9; see p. 27.