North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

MANDHATA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE OF JAYAVARMAN

with Dēpālpur, the headquarters of a tehsīl in the Indore District. [1] Śākapura (1. 81, v. 63), as already suggested by Dr. Sircar, is most probably the same as Śakapura, occurring in an earlier inscription (above, No. 47), the vowel of the first letter of the name being made long for metrical exigencies. It has been identified by D.C. Ganguly, with Shujālpur [2] (in the modern Śājāpur tehsīl), without any sound reasons. But to me the place apears to be the same as Sultānpur, lying about 10 kms. South by west of Dhār. Śaka, the first member of the compound of the name may have been used in the record in the sense of Sultān. [3] About Ṭakārī (11.96 ff.) from which as many as ten donees had come, we have already remarked above; [4] and Lashaṇapura (1.102) may perhaps be the same as Lakhangāon in the Kasrāvad tehsīl of the West Nēmāḍ District of Madhya Pradesh. Regarding the two other places of the donees, viz., Tōlāpauha (1.104) and Ṭēṇī (1.111), no definite suggestion can be offerred in view of the fact that there are a number of places with similar names in the region itself ; e.g., for the first of these, we Ujjain District, and Ṭōlā in the Jabalpur District ; and for the second, we find Ṭumnī, Ṭumṇī. and Tarnōd, all in the Ujjain District. Of the pratijāgaraṇakas, Vardhamānapura (1.88) is Badnāvar (Lat.23 2’ N. and Long 75 17’ E.) a chief town of a tehsīl in the Dhār District. It some possesses some archaeological remains. [5] Nāgadaha (1.89) has been suggested by Dr.Sircar to be the same as the Railway Station near Ratlām, but in view of the consideration that it was possibly in the same region as of Badnāvar, I am, however, inclined to identify the place with Nāgdā, situated about 25 kms. south of Badnāvar, on Dhār-Ratlām metalled road. [6] All the four grant villages, which may have formed a compact group, can thus be found in the same region. Following this clue, I find a village of the name of Bālōdā, which may represent the same village of the record (11.88 and 128). It is about 10 kms. south by west of Kaḍōd, which may have been the same as Kumhaḍāüda of the inscription (11. 88 and 128) and which is about 25 kms. south of Badnāvar. Vaghāḍī (11. 89 and 128) may perhaps be identified with the modern village of Bagaḍī, situated about 6 kms. east of Dhār ; and Nāṭiyā (11. 89 and 128) appears to be the modern village of the same name, as suggested by Dr. Sircar, near the Birwāniā Railway Station in Ujjain District, which borders the present Badnāvar tehsīl of the Dhār District on the east.

APPENDIX A
LIST OF DONEES IN LINES 96-127 [7]

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[1] This place is associated with the Paramāra king Dēvapāla and possesses some archaeological remains, for which, see P.R.A.S.I., W.C., 1919-20, p. 102. For a copper-plate grant from the same place, see above, No. 13.
[2] See. H.P.D., p. 201.
[3] This view seems to be more reasonable than the one adopted above, on p. 163. In this case, the village Piḍiviḍi, suggested as identical with Pārliā on p. 164, seems to be the same as the modern petty hamlet known as Pēḍavī, lying about 30 kms. south by east of Sultānpur.
[4] See above, p. 179.
[5] See Ind. Cult., Vol. XI, p. 166.
[6] In the region there are some more places bearing this or some similar names, but being nearest to Badnāvar, this place fulfils the requirements most.
[7] The total number of shares was sixteen. Two of these shares were retained by Anayasiṁha, the donor himself, and the rest fourteen were distributed among the Brāhmaṇas, each getting one share. And curiously enough, the inscription in 1.127 states “shōḍaśa-Brāhmaṇēbhyaḥ”. probably including himself.
[8] Each of the name in Nos. 1-14 has the word śarman attached to it and the word Brāhmaṇa is repeated in each case ; whereas with the name of the donor we find the word varman attached to it and the word Kshatriya is repeated in his case.
[9] It may here be noted that from Ṭakārī there were ten Brāhmāṇas ; two from Ṭēnī and one each from Lakhaṇapura and Tōlāpauha.

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