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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA THE SECOND PLATE OF AHMEDABAD GRANT OF SIYAKA where both these letters appear ; and r shows two varieties, viz., a vertical with its lowest extremity slightly bent to the right, as in rājabhiḥ, 1.2, and the vertical with a triangular loop in the middle, as in purushaiḥ, which appears as purupaiḥ in 1.8. Ś shows a transitional state, with its antique from in āśvina, 1.9 and its advanced from in vaṁśa, 1.1. ...The language of the record is Sanskrit ; and, with the exception of a sentence in 11. 1-2 and the portion containing the date, the name of the dāpaka and the sign-manual of the king in the end, in 11. 9-10, the record is in verse. It contains five of the customary predicatory verses which are not numbered. In respect of orthography, we have only to state that (1) b is denoted by the sign for v, and (2) the anusvāra is as many as five times changed to p when followed by this letter, in 11. 2,4,6 (twice) and 8, and is wrongly marked as sh in the last three of these instances. ...As stated above. the inscription is fragmentary ; and owing to the loss of the first plate, the exact nature of the grant cannot be known. But is would appear that, like others, it was made to record some donation by Sīyaka, the mention of whose family and pedigree is also lost in the first plate. From the Garuḍa representation which is precisely the same as on the other plates of the Paramāras of Mālwā, he may definitely be taken to be identical with the homonymous Paramāra ruler who issued the Harsōlā grants, dealt with immediately before. The way of putting the sign-manual, along with the palaeography, also points to the same conclusion ; and it is also interesting to note that the five imprecatory verse of the present charter and the name of the dāpaka Kaṇhapaika in the end, are the same as in the Dharampurī (next) grant of V.S. 1031 of his son, issued only five years later. Line 9 mentions the date, given in words only, the fifteenth of the dark half of Āśvina of the year 1026, which must evidently be referred to the Vikrama era and which for the Northern V. expired, corresponds to Thursday, 14th October, 969 A.C. [1] This date is of great historical interest, as it indicates that Sīyaka, who issued the Harsōlā grants in V.S. 1005, continued to be on the Paramāra throne at least up to V.S. 1026 and was succeeded by his son Vākpati-Muñja, some time before V.S. 1031, which is so far the latter’s earliest known date.
...Recording the name of the dāpaka in 1.9, as we have seen above, and with the sign-manual of the grantor Sīyaka in 1. 10, the charter comes to a close. ...It is noteworthy that the present plate and the Harsōlā plates which are the earliest known records of the Paramāra house of Mālwā were all discovered in Gujarāt and the property donated by Sīyaka in the latter also existed in the same tract of Gujarāt. From this, Diskalkar has suggested that the Paramāras were connected with Gujarāt in the early days of their power, and the suggestion appears to be justified from the find of some more grants of the Paramāras and their activity in this region, as we shall see later. No place name occurs in the existing portion of the record. TEXT[2] 1 सामान्यं चैतत्पुण्यफलं वु (बु) द्ध्वास्मद्वंशजैरन्यै रपि भाविभोक्तृभिरस्मत्प्रदत्तधर्म्मदायोय- [1] In the Northern V. current, Āśvina was intercalary ; and for the Southern V. expired, the date would correspond
to Saturday, 3rd September, 970 A.C. It cannot be verified. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
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