North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

conjectured that Trailōkyavarman was then leading an expedition against the Chandēllas in the north, who had some time before annexed the region in the neighbourhood of this place, from the Paramāras, as evinced from the Augasī grant of the Chandēlla Madanavarman, issued from his residence at Bhillasvāmipura, i.e., modern Bhilsā, or Vidishā. [1] And in view of all this, it is equally possible to assume that Trailōkyavarman, though his exact relationship in the house is not known, may have actually ruled as a Mahākumāra for some time before Hariśchandra, who was his successor. Thus the question whether Trailōkyavarman actually ruled or only acted as a regent during the minority of Hariśchandra, cannot be positively settled under the present state of our knowledge. The first of these alternatives, however, seems to be more probable, as we have seen in the preceding inscription also.

...There is only one place-name. viz., Harshapura, mentioned in the existing portion of the inscription. This may have been, as seen above, the town of Harsūd, the chief town of a parganā in the East Nēmāḍ District, which also gave us another stone inscription, the one of the Paramāra Dēvapāla, which is edited below, No. 50. But besides similarity in the names, there is nothing to verify this suggestion. For we also know one Harsōlā in the Ahmedabad District (see above, No. 1), another about 20 kms. north by east of Dhār, and still another, about 25 kms. South-east of Indore.

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No. 44 ; PLATE XLV
BHOPĀL COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF MAHĀKUMĀRA HARIŚCHANDRA
[ Vikrama] Year 1214

...THIS inscription is engraved on two copper-plates which are said to have been found, some time in the opening years of the present century, by Diwan Seth Brijmohan Das, a leading banker, in course of digging the foundation of his house in Chowk Bazar, Bhopāl. The plates were unearthed at a depth of about 20 feet and laid one above the other and nailed to the ground. [10] The inscription was noticed in an issue of the Hindustan Times, dated 31 st January, 1937, by M. Hamid, who was then the Superintendent of Archaeology, (old) Bhopāl State, and from a set of photographs sent by him, it was systematically edited by the late Dr. N.P. Chakravarti, then the Government Epigraphist in the Archaeological Survey of India, in the Epigraphia Indica, Volume XXIV, pages 225 ff., with text in Roman characters
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[1] See No. 118, below.
[2] From the original stone and inked impressions supplied by Dr. Katare.
[3] Expressed by a symbol.
[4] Originally dhi, later on changed to va, Restore the last portion as -लीसहि-.
[5] The year and the month are lost here.
[6] The language here is faulty though the sense is clear (K.G.K.).
[7] K.G.K. read bhōgyāya, but the first aksharas which begins with a curve is a (misformed), and in view of this the second akshara has to be read as shṭāṁsa (śa), meaning the eighth part (of the revenue ?). The reading of these aksharas is due to Dr. Katare.
[8] The anusvāra is clear on the stone but being lightly engraved it could not come in the impression.
[9] Perhaps the lost portion has to be restored by a word like प्रदत्तः, सम्प्रदत्त:, or उपहृतः.
[10] As often stated, Bhopāl was the capital of the former State of the same name and now that of the State of Madhya Pradesh. The preliminary information about the finding of the plates as all based on N.P. Chakravarti’s article in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, pp. 232 ff.

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