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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA सकलमिदमुदाहृतं च बुध्वा(द्ध्वा) न हि पुरुषैः परकीर्त्तयो विलोप्या: ।[।२३॥*]संवत् १२३७[1] फाल्गुण(न)शुद्ध १० गुरौ रचितमिदं महापंडितश्रीबिल्हणसंमतेन राजगुरुणा मदनेन ॥ No. 48 ; No PLATE ...THE copper-plate which bears this inscription was found some time about 1836 and reached the hands of the late L. Wilkinson who was then Political Agent at Bhopāl, the Chief town of the old Bhopāl State, now integrated with Madhya Pradesh. While publishing the Pipliānagar inscription in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume V (1836), as seen above, Wilkinson observes on p. 377 : “Three other copper-plates have since been found at the same village. I have not yet time to translate, or indeed to decipher them,” From this statement it is possible to conclude that the present copper-plate too, like the one referred to above, was found at the same village[2] and possibly exactly under the same circumstances, i.e., in the process of ploughing a field. Some time thereafter, the plate reached the library of the Begum’s School at Sehōre,[3] a District headquarter in Bhopāl, where it was examined by Fitz-Edward Hall, D.C.L., who noticed the inscription engraved on it in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume VII (1859), giving his own reading of the text on pp. 52 f., accompanied by a translation (pp. 33 f.), but without an illustration of the facsimile. The inscription is edited here from Hall’s transcript thereof. ... It is said to be a single plate. Its measurements are not known. The inscription on it is in Nāgarī and the language is Sanskrit, composed in an admixture of prose and poetry. The initial portion which begins with a small sentence ōṁ namaḥ purushārtha-chūḍāmaṇayē dharmmāya, followed by 19 verses in the anushṭubh metre, is practically identical with the previous inscription, composed by the same poet ; the difference is only in the portion dealing with the grant and the date, which is here expressed in words and is repeated in figures in the concluding part of the record.
... The grant portion may be devided up into two parts, the first of which states that Arjunavarman, after oblution at the Sōmavatī-tīrtha, granted to the excellent family priest (supurōdhasē), the Paṇḍita Gōvindaśarman, a plot of land for (constructing) the residence (temple?) for daṇḍādhipati,[4] extending as far as the boundary of the occupied houses on the (main) street (pratōlī-prāgāra-sīmā-paryantaṁ) in Mahākālapura, probably Ujjain. The date of this grant is stated to be Monday, the 15th of the dark half of Āshāḍha. The year is not mentioned ; possibly it may be the same as of the following grant ...The inscription thereafter records another grant made by Arjunavarman from his stay at
Bhṛigukachchha, which is the modern Broach in the Bombay State. The day of this grant is
recorded to be amāvāsyā of the dark half of Vaiśākha when there was an eclipse of the
Sun. The equivalent of the date, as calculated by Kielhorn, is the northern Vikrama 1270
[1] See n. on the correction of the date on the preceding page.
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