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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
SUPPLEMENTARY INSCRIPTIONS the ruling king. The donee was the Brāhṃaṇa Sōḍhaśarman, the son of Chhiktū and grandson of Sūlhaṇa and great-grandson of Janārdana, who belonged to the Sāvarṇya gōtra with five pravaras, and was a student of the Chhandōga śākhā of the Sāmavēda. Among the dignitaries to whom the royal order is addressed, there are the Mahākumāra Ajayasiṁha, the Mahāmantrin, the Śaivāchārya, the Rājaguru Vidyādēva, the Mahāpurōhita Yajñadhara, the Mahāmatya Kīkī, the Mahākshapaṭalika, Mahāpradhāna, Arthalēkhin and Daśamūlika Vatsarāja and the Mahāsāndhivigrahika Purushōttama. Some of these names occur in other inscription also. The crown prince Ajayasiṁha, for instance, is mentioned in the Bhērā-Ghāṭ inscription of Vijayasiṁha,¹ while the Sāndhivigrahika Purushōttama and the Daśamulin Vatsarāja are named in the Jabalpur plates of Jayasiṁha.2 The present charter was written by the aforementioned Vatsarāja and the Paṇḍita Kēśava. The latter is mentioned as Arthalēkhin in the Rewa stone inscription of Vijayasiṁha.³ The inscription is dated in the year 932 (expressed in decimal figures only) of an unspecified era. The date must, of course, be referred to the Kalachuri era and corresponds, for the expired year 932, to 1180-81 A.C. It does not admit of verification in the absence of the necessary details.
Of the localities mentioned here, Chōralāyī is probably Chaorai, a village about 20 miles south by west of Jabalpur. Sambalā, the headquarters of the pattalā (subdivision) in which it was situated, cannot now be traced.
1 Above, No.60, 1, 1.
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