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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA length of one side of the plot. which would show that one hala would give its area to be 252Ã252=63504 square feet or about 20 bighas, according to the popular belief, is known to be ploughed by one hala in a single season in Malwa.[1] ...As stated above, the names figuring in the genealogy of the house mentioned in the grant are those of Sindhurāja, Bhōjadēva, Udayāditya and Naravarman, in succession. This portion contains nothing new, but what is noteworthy here is the omission of the name of Jayasiṁha the son and successor of Bhōja, as we also find in the undated Udaipur praśasti, the Nagpur praśasti of Naravarman, the Ujjain grant of Yaśōvarman and the Kadambapadraka grant of Naravarman just referred to above.[2] The omission is probably because Jayasiṁha’s reign was not long, as rightly assumed by Kielhorn while editing the Māndhātā plate-inscription of Jayavarman himself.[3] This problem will be considered separately, while dealing with each of these records, as it is not our concern here. ...The importance of the present inscription, however, lies in the fact that the gift was made on the occasion of the annual funeral ceremony of Udayāditya in V.S. 1152 or 1095 A.C., by his son Naravarman, whose earliest known date is supplied by the preceding inscription[4] giving the year to be V.S. 1151 or 1094 A.C., which is ten years earlier than the earliest known date of the king, and here we have also to be bear in mind that it is a private record. This date, however, is incidently corroborated by the present charter which was issued by a member of the royal house himself. It also makes it evident that Udayāditya died a year before V.S. 1152, which is stated to have been the year of his annual funeral ceremony.
...As to the geographical places mentioned in the record, Iṅguṇīpadra is the modern
Ignōdā (23o 44’ N. Lat. & 76o 14’ E. Long.) now included in the Ratlām District and situated
about 5 miles or 8 kms. south-east of the Dhodhar Station on the Ajmer-Khandwā branch of
the Western Railway. The name figures as Iṅgaṇapadra in an inscription of V.S. 1190, which
was found at the same place.[5]
Rēvā is the Narmadā, and Kuvilārā is evidently the stream of
the name of Kōlar (or khōlār) which joins it about 25 kms. west of Māndhātā from where some
other grants of the dynasty were issued. Bhagavatpura, which is mentioned as a pratijāgaraṇaka
(parganā) in 1. 6, is probably the modern town of Bhagor (in 23o 53’ N. and 75o 25’ E.) on
the Chambal, as Ignōdā too is, from which it is about 25 kms. north-east and is an old place.[6]
The village of Mālāpuraka in which the gift land is said to have existed and the place mentioned as Adriyalavidā in Dakshiṇā-patha from where the donee had hailed. I am unable to
identify. The maps at my disposal show a place of the name of Mālkhēḍa situated about
22 kms. south-southeast of Bhagor and one Mālāpura to the south of Bhagor almost about
40 kms. distant ; but for want of a definite clue neither of them can be identified with the
Mālāpuraka of our record. The name of the place where the grant was originally made cannot be read with confidence and hence it too cannot be identified.[7]
[1] See A.N. Bose: Political Economy, II. p. 279. My personal investigation particularly with reference
to Mālwā also points out the same. The measure intended in the present grant seems to be 40 daṇḍas
on either side, that is. 40 by 40=1,600 square daṇḍas, as also in the Kālvaṇ grant of the time of
Bhōjadēva (No.16). Consequently, the remaining two daṇḍas (out of 44 mentioned here) seem to have
been left fallow as the boundary-mark between the two adjoining fields. It is known in Mālwā as Mēḍa
or kāṅkaḍa-paḍatī.
.......................CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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