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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTIONS
TRANSLATION Success! Ōṁ ! Adoration to Brahman ! (Verse 12) There was a Brāhmaṇa, Sahadēva (by name), of the Bhārgava gōtra, with the five pravaras, Bhārgava, Chyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva and Jāmdagnya, who had emigrated from the village Gōri. (V. 13) From him was (born) Hariśarman, who was conversant with the Vēdas, Smṛitis and Purāṇas (and who was) the birth-place of sacrificial knowledge and the abode of righteous conduct. (V. 14) There was his son Padmanābha, who was conversant with the Vēdas and Vēdāṅgas, who maintained the sacred fire, who was devoted to righteous conduct and was pious, and who resembled (the god) Padmanābha (Vishṇu). (V. 15) This king Ratnadēva (II), who is always devoted to religion, has donated with devotion this village named Vōḍalā, (situated) in Kōsala, to that Padmanābha, when the sun was devoured by Rāhu in the month of Kārttika. (V. 15) Whoever king or Amātya there might be even in another age, he also should always preserve this gift with care. ( Here follow five benedictive and imprecatory verses.) In the Kalachuri year 885, (the month) Āśvina, the bright (fortnight), the (lunar) day I, on Wednesday. May there be happiness and great prosperity ! Śrī. No. 123 ; PLATE CII THIS set of copper-plates was discovered together with the preceding one in 1950 near the village Pāregaon, about 7 miles north of Baloda Bazar, in the Raipur District of the
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