North Indian Inscriptions

ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTIONS

NAGARDHAN PLATES OF SVAMIRAJA : YEAR 322

shows that it wielded considerable power in the State.^¹

As for the localities mentioned in the present grant, Nandivardhana, from which the plates were issued, has already been identified with Nagardhan. This identification has been corroborated by the present record. Nagardhan is also to have been known by the name of Nandardhan which corresponds to Nandivardhana. Achalpura is usually identified with a place of the same name (former Ellichpur) in the Amaravati District; but there is no river named Sūlanadī flowing by its side .The Achalapur mentioned in the present plates as an agrahāra village was probably situated nor far from Nandivar dhana. The Śūlanadī, on the bank of which it lay, is probably identical with the river Sūr^² which flows only about 4 miles east of Nagardhan. Aṅkōllikā, which was situated on the bank of the Sūlanadī, may be identical with modern Aroli, on the right bank of the Sūr, about 8 miles south by east of Nagardhan ; but there are no places corresponding to Achalapura and Śriparṇika in its vicinity. Chiñchapaṭṭikā is probably represented by the village Chichal, about a mile and a half north by east of Nagardhan.

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¹ The elephant force was an important part of the army in ancient times .Cf. हस्‍इतप्रधानो विजयो  राज्ञाम्‌ ! Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra, II, 2.
² This river is called Sura-nadī in 1. 39 of the Rāmṭēk stone inscription of Rāmachandra, Ep.Ind. Vol. XXV, P.10. The name of the seems to have changed from Śūla-nadī to Sura-nadī in the course of the seven centuries that separate these two records.
³ From the original plates and ink impressions.
⁴ Expressed by a symbol.
⁵ Read नन्दिवद्धंनात्‌. The place-name occurs as नान्दिवद्धंन in the plates of Prabhāvatīguptā (Ep. Ind., Vol. XV, pp 41 f.) and the Belora plates Prevarasēna II (ibid., Vol. XXIV, p 264.). In the Rithapur plates of Bhavadattavarman, ibid., Vol. XIX, p. 102 and the Kōthūraka grant of Pravarasēna II (ibid., Vol. XXVI, p. 159) it appears as नन्दिवद्धंन.
⁶ This and other similar marks of punctuation in 11.5-7,10- 12 the 14-18 are superfluous.
⁷ Read शिवदेवभटदय.
⁸ Here and in some places below, the rules of sandhi have not been observed.
⁹ Read तेतिरीया:.
¹⁰ This gotra-name usually occurs as कोण्‍इडन्य.