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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA A JAIN INSCRIPTION FROM SHERGAḌH Dēvapāla and his nephews belonging to the Khaṇḍelwāl family, whose ancestor Māhilla had migrated to Mālava (v. 2). The date of the record, as given in figures in verse 3, is the second of the bright fortnight of Vaiśākha of 1191 (the hundred figures being mentioned in wordnumerals as Rudraśata). The date is given also in figures in the end. As calculated by Dr. Sircar, it corresponds to 29th March, 1134, but he also observes that the week day was Thursday and not Tuesday as given in the inscription. [1] The record was engraved by Dāṁdi, the son of the mason Silasri. ...The inscription commences with the mention of the wife of a person named Māhilla, probably residing at a township (pattana) called Sūryāśrama or a hermitage associated with the Sun-god. This portion of the record is damaged, but what follows appears to state that she begot two sons whose names were Śrīpāla and Guṇapālaka or Guṇapāla, both of whom migrated to Mālava. The second verse states that Śrīpāla’s son was Dēvapāla ; and Guṇapāla (called Ṭhakkura here) had a son whose name was probably Śānti, and who again had nine sons, the names of four of whom were Pūnī, Martha, Jana and Ilhuka, and all these persons caused to be made the Ratna-traya, i.e., the images of the three Tīrthaṅkaras, viz., Śāntinātha, Kunthunātha and Aranātha, at Kōśavardhana. The third verse mentions the date, as discussed above, and also records the devotion of all these persons ; and verse 4 contains an adoration to the three Tīrthaṅkaras, also stating the name of the mason, which too we have seen above. Verse 5 mentions Dēvapāla’s son Ilhuka as well as Goshṭhika, Vīsala, Lalluka, Māuka and Hariśchandra, and also Allaka, son of Gāgā, all of whom, appear to have belonged to the family, and, as observed by Dr. Sircar, may have been associated with the installation of the immages.
... The record does not mention the name of any king is whose reign it was incised. We know that the Paramāra king Yaśōvarman perfored the anniversary of his father Naravarman either in October or in November of 1135 [2] A.C. ; and from the date of the present inscription which fell in March of 1934, it is clear that the images were set up about 7-8 months before the death of Naravarman. ... Of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, Mālava (v. 1) is of course Mālwā, and Kōśavardhana(v. 2) is evidently the earlier name of Shērgaḍh where the inscription was found. While identifying this place, Dr. Sircar observed that “the apparent inclusion of Shērgaḍh (in the heart of Rājasthān) in Mālava is interesting”. But the modern political divisions are quite different from those of the past. It may also be remarked here that the place is only about 40 kms. north-east of Jhālrāpāṭan where Udayāditya’s inscription [3] was found ; and it is also in a region which is bordered on the south by the modern district of Rājgaḍh and on the east by the Gunā District, now in Madhya Pradesh but on the borders of Mālwā. In view of all this, it is quite reasonable to conclude that the region in which Shērgaḍh is situated was one of the bordering provinces of Mālava in the days of the Paramāras. The third place mentioned in the inscription, viz. Sūryāśrama (v. 1) cannot be identified.
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1 - - - u u - u [णे श्रित] u - माहिल्ल भार्यान्तिमा (?), - - - u u - u [श]स्यति[ल]
[1] Of the reading maṁgalē, taken by Dr. Sircar, the first letter is altogether missing in the facsimile plate
published in the Ep. Ind., and what is at the lowest extremity of ga may have been the sign of short
I. The upper part of the last letter is partly visible ; it may be ra, and with the sign of the secondary
u misformed, it may have been ru, making the whole to read guru-. Here we have to bear in mind that
the record was engraved in a most careless way, as shown by some of the instances given above. More over, even with the reading maṁ (for maṁgalē), Sircar calculated the date only for the Chaitrādi V. 1911
expired, but according to the reckoning of the kārttikādi V. expired. the second tithi began on Tuesday,
16th April, 1135 A.C., at 8 h . 45 m. after mean sunrise; and it is possible to take this as the intended
day, presuming, of course, that the function began late on that day.
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