North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

MĀNDHĀTĀ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF JAYAVARMAN

...but it was recovered by the Paramāras, as we know from the Vidishā inscription of Trailōkyavarman, dated, V.S. 1216 (1158-59 A.C.) and also from the two inscriptions of the time of Dēvapāla, dated V.S. 1286 (1229 A.C.) and V.S. 1289 (1232 A.C.), [1] both found at Udaipur. The expression samasta-rājāvalī-sahita, which is used along with the name of Jayasiṁha in 11. 2-3 of the present inscription, reminds us of a similar expression in the Māndhātā grant of V.S. 1331 (1.86), where we have also shown that this ruler is identical with Jayavarman II, who is men-tioned in it. [2]

...Jayasiṁha’s contemporary in the immediate north of his kingdom was Jaitrasiṁha of the Chāhamāna house of Raṇathambhōr, a brave and ambitious ruler, who was then striving hard to extend his territories in the south. The struggle between both these rivals has already been referred to by us while editing the Atrū inscription of V.S. 1314 (1257 A.C.), [3] and it need not be repeated here.

...The only geographical name mentioned in the inscription is Vaḍōvyapattana, which is evidently the modern village of Baḍōh, adjoining to Paṭhārī, where the inscription was found. The two villages which now appear as separate from each other, were in old times parts of the same village which then extended over a greater area, as we know from the description of antiquities found there by Cunningham, who also remarks to this effect. [4]

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No. 60 ; PLATES LX-LXIII
MĀNDHĀTĀ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF JAYAVARMAN
[Vikrama] Year 1331

...THIS set of plates in said to have been found in 1927, in course of cleaning ground for the Kārttika Mēlā on the southern bank of the Narmadā, near the famous Kāśī-Viśvanātha temple at Ōṁkāra-Māndhāta, [13] an island attached to the East Nēmāḍ District of Madhya Pradesh.,
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[1] Nos. 42, 52 and 53, respectively.
[2] No. 60, below.
[3] No. 55.
[4] Cunningham, A.S.I.R., Vol. X, p. 76.
[5] From an inked impression.
[6] Expressed by a symbol.
[7] The first two letters in this line, as some others below, are not well formed ; but the reading is certain.
[8] Read जयसिंह-
[9] The second akshara in this word is probably to be corrected to श्री. In the Annual Report on Epigraphy, referred to above, it is taken as given here and it is also stated in it that Raṇasiṁha, whose name ends in siṁha, may not have been a Brāhmaṇa and therefore the prefix paṁ, that is, Paṇḍita, cannot be applied to him. But names with the suffix siṁha are also found among the Brāhmaṇas, for example, that of Jaitrasiṁha, the father of the Paramāra Arjunavarman’s royal preceptor Gōvinda, for which see No. 49.
[10] Read वाटिकोद्यापनार्थं.
[11] Read -स्थलमिदम्. Ramsharma read कीर्त्ति[:*] स्था[पि*][ते]यं.
[12] Here the impression shows a sign resembling the Nāgarī figure 5 ; and it is not known if it is a mātrā combined with the daṇḍa that follows, which is in fact needed here. Ramsharma took it the Nāgarī 5 and explained it as “repeated five times”. But it may perhaps be the sign of a misformed double daṇḍa.
[13] For the location of the place, see above, Nos. 18, 51 and 57.

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