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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR villages Tipuruga, Girahulī, Uluvā and Sēṇēḍu. Besides these, he established a charitable feeding house and raised a flower-garden at Nārāyaṭapura. The praśasti was composed and written on the stone by Kumārapāla¹ of the Haihaya lineage, who was proficient in poetry, metrics, literature and diplomacy, and had a younger brother named Jalhaṇa. It was engraved by Jātū. The Śrēshṭhin Ralhaṇa, who was the officer in charge of religious endowments, supervised the work. Of the place-names occurring here, Tummāṇa and Ratnapura have already been identified. Suvarṇapura is modern Sonpur, formerly the capital of a feudatory state of the same name in the State of Orissa. Most of the remaining places can be identified in the vicinity of Kharōd. Vāna-Vaḍada or vaḍada of the forest may be Baludā in the Jānjgir tahsil, 30 m. north by west of Kharōd. Durga may be identical with the chief town of the Drug District. The town Pahapaka is likely to be Putpurā, 16 miles to the north and Pōratha, Perthā 30 miles to the north-east of Kharōd, both in the Jānjgir tahsil. I identify Tipuruga with Tiprung, 10 miles south of Kharōd, in the former Katgi Zamindarī, and Sēṇāḍu with Sōnada, 15 miles to the east of Kharōd, in the Jānjgir tahsil. Nārāyaṇapura, which lies 20 miles to the south-west of Kharōd, in the Baloda Bazar tahsil of the Raipur District, has a mediaeval temple of Vishṇu. Girahulī may be identical with Girōlpālī in the Janjgir tahsil and Uluvā with Ulbā in the Raipur District.
1 Kumārapāla figures as scribe in several other records; see above, p. 519, n. 3. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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