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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA ...parents and of himself, to the learned Brāhmaṇa-philosopher, the illustrious Vasantāchārya, the son of Paṇḍita Dhanika[1] and hailing from Ahichchhatra into the southern region. ...Lines 23-25 record the usual condition of the grant ; and then are quoted five imprecatory and benedictory verses, followed by the date in figures, as seen above, and also the mention of the name Kaṇhapaika who passed on the (royal) orders. He appears to be the same person as mentioned in the preceding grant. Here the inscription ends with the sign-manual of the king– sva-hast-ōyaṁ Śrī-Vākpatirājadēvasya (in 11. 34-35). ...The present grant is the first of those issued by Vākpatirāja alias Muñja and is dated (V.) S. 1031, which is equivalent to 957 A.C. ; and as his father Sīyaka’s last grant shows the year which corresponds to 969 A.C., it is evident that Vākpatirāja occupied the throne of Mālwā some time between the two dates. It is also interesting to note that the present one is the first royal charter issued by a member of the house from Mālwā, all the previous ones being issued from Gujarāt.
...Of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription, Ujjayinī (1. 14) and Narmadā (11. 8-9) are well known ; and Ahichchhatra, the original place of the donee (1. 20) has been identified with Rohelkhand.[2] Pipparikā (1. 9), which has so far remained unidentified, appears to be identical with the modern Pīprī (E. Long. 75⁰ 12’ ; N. Lat. 22⁰ 9’) in the Manāwar tahsīl of the Dhār District, about 6-7 kms. north of the Narmadā. Kīrtane identified Chikhillikā (1. 12) with the modern town of Chikhaldā which is about 28 kms. south-southwest of Pīprī ; but besides its great distance from Pīprī, this identification goes against the direction of the other places mentioned in the inscription. This place rather appears to have been more likely the village Chīkhlī, about 15 kms. north-northwest of Pīprī. The stream Mān, which is a northern tributary of the Narmadā, follows a meandering course, first flowing to the east of Chīkhlī and then taking a sudden bend to the north of Pīprī, before it pours its waters into the Narmadā ; thus it shows the donated taḍāra to its west and is very probably to be the vāhalā (stream ?) stated to form its eastern boundary. About 8 kms. north-northwest of Chīkhlī flows another stream known as Kharjā, which, as rightly recognised by Kīrtane from the identical meaning, may be the Gardabha-nadi (1. 9), forming the western boundary of the taḍāra, as stated in the inscription. The tīrtha by the name of Piśācha-dēva, as it is known even today, is on the Narmadā, just to the south of Pīprī ; and the bhōga of Gardabha-pānīya refers to the region around the prosperous village Gandhvānī (N. Lat. 22⁰ 21’ ; E. Long. 75⁰ 3’) about 40 kms. south-west of Dhār and about 45 kms. north-west of Dharampurī where the plates were found. [3] And finally, Śiva-taḍāga, mentioned in 1. 15, where the king took his bath before making the grant, appears to be the cistern in the precincts of the Mahākāla temple at Ujjain where he is stated to be then residing. The Navasāhasāṅkacharita (I, v. 48) describes it as a pious lake.
TEXT [4] First Plate 1 सिद्वम्[5] [।*] याः स्फूर्ज्जत्फगमृद्विषानलमिलद्धूमप्रभाः प्रोल्लसन्मूर्द्धाव (ब) द्धशशाङ्ककोटिघटिता याः सै- [1] It is not known whether this person is identical with his namesake, the commentator of the Daśarūpa Inviting our attention to the fact that the Daśarūpa must have been completed after Muñja’s death for the reason
that it cites Padmagupta’s Navasāhasāṅkacharita, which was written under Sindhurāja, A.B. Keith expressed
his doubt on the identification of the father of the donee with the commentator (Sans. Drama. p. 293). But this
doubt disappears when we consider the age of both of them. For taking Vasantāchārya, of course hypothetically, to have been about 25 years old in 974 A.C. when he received the grant, his father, to whom he may
have been born at the age of about 20, can be taken to have been then a man of 45, and can presumably
be taken as living till the end of Sindhurāja’s reign and possibly even thereafter. Keith’s argument may thus
he replied, but we have nothing to establish the identity of the father of the donee with the commentator.
except, only the similarity in the names.
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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