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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA 26
दिभिः यस्य यस्य यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तदा फलं(लम्) । [।६॥*] यानीह दत्तानि पुरा नरेद्रैर्द्दनानि धर्मा[1] र्थ- No. 3 ; PLATE III ...THIS copper-plate, which is the second of (apparently) the two plates making a complete grant, is stated to have been obtained by a pleader of kairā, in the Gujarāt area of the Bombay State, and presented to Muni Jinavijayaji of the Gujarāt purātattva Mandir of Ahmedabad, some time about 1920 A.C. How it came to the copper-smith is not known. The inscription incised on it was briefly noticed by D.B. Diskalkar, in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Third Oriental Conference, Madras, p. 304, and also in the Annual Report of the Watson Museum, Rajkot, for 1923-24, p. 14, and was transcribed by him in Puratattva (a Gujarati Journal), Volume III, pp. 145 ff. The same scholar subsequently edited the record in the Epigraphia Indica, Volume XIX (for 1927), pp. 177-78, giving its transcript (only of 11. 1-2) in Nagari and a facsimile (Plate No. 28), facing p. 178. From the same facsimile it is edited here.[3] ...The plate measures 33.34 cms. in length and 19.05 cms. in breadth. It has two holes, each of which shows a diameter of about .6 cm. at the top, at a distance of 17.78 cms. from each other, which were originally meant for two copper-rings to pass through them to hold the plates together. But as is the case with the first of the plates, the rings too have never been discovered. The edges of the existing plate are fashioned thicker, to protect the writing, which is in a good state of preservation, excepting a few letters here and there, which appear to have been wholly or partially lost, probably in the process of cleaning it in a crude way, but it is not difficult to restore them. ...In the lower right corner of the plate there is a representation of a flying Garuḍa facing right and depicted as a human being, except for the wings attached to his shoulders ; he is holding a hooded snake in his left hand and his right hand is raised to stricke it, as we generally find in the charters issued by the Paramāra rulers of Mālwā. The figure measures about 5 cms. in height and 4 cms. in breadth. ...The plate is inscribed on one side only and bears ten lines of writing. The average size of the letters is about .6 by .6 cm., excepting in the last line which is only 18.5 cms. long and contains letters about three times larger than the others and shows only the sign-manual of the king, which just follows the Garuḍa figure. ...The characters are Nāgarī of the tenth century, slightly differing in formation from those of the Harsōlā grants of Sīyaka but showing a great resemblance to those of Vākpati-Muñja and Bhōja, which are dealt with just below. The technical execution indicates slovenliness ; the letters are sometimes inclined towards the left but more often of the right, and the sign of anusvāra and punctuation marks are occasionally omitted. We have also instances when parts or limbs of letters are left uncarved, e.g., the horizontal stroke of ma making it appers as ga in 1.2 and the middle slanting bar of sha in purusha, in 1. 8. To note the formation of the letters, a in asmat, 1.4, appears to approach its modern from:
dh continues to be much similar to v, e.g. in dharmmārtha, 1.3 ; p often resembles y, as in para-,
1.5, [1] Dikshit and Diskalkar read here र्म्म. but the plate does not shows the consonant of this akshara to be doubled.
.......................CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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