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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
ADDITIONAL INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS
nivartanas at the village Kutāpura situated in Madhya Pradēśa, together with the levy of a silver nishka (i.e a dramma) on every village in that Pradēśa, which was made by the Silāhāra King Bhōja II while residing at the fort of Padmanāla, on the occasion of a solar eclipse which occurred on Wednesday, the new-moon tithi of Mārgaśīrsha in the Ṡaka year 1113, the cyclic year being Virōdhakṛit. The donee was the Brāhmaṇa Gōvinda Bhaṭṭavardhana, described as Dhamādhikārin, who belonged to the Naidhruva gōtra with the pravaras of Kāśyapa, Āvasāra and Naidhruva. While stating the boundaries of the village the following are mentioned—the river flowing from the Mañchāla-giri and joining the ocean, another river named Gaṅgā, rising from Mārīcha-giri and flowing into the ocean, south of the former, the foot of the Sahyādri and the sea-coast. While stating the duties of the Dharmādhikarin, mention is made of the performance of ishṭa (religious rites) and pūrta (charitable works), pr¬āyaśchitta (expiatory rites), jyōtisha (astrology), purāṇas, nyāyādhīśa-karman (adjudication of suits), and rāshṭra-dharma-nīrīkshaṇa (scrutiny of the national religion).
..The date of the present grant can be completely verified. It corresponds to Wednesday, the 18th December A.D. 1191, when there was a solar eclipse on the am¬āvāsya of the amānta Mārgasīrsha. The cyclic year was Virōdhakṛit according to the southern luni-solar system. ..As for the localities mentioned in the present grant, Padmanāla-durga is Panhāḷā fort near Kolhāpur. The Mention of the rivers stating the boundaries of the donated village as rising from the Sahyādri mountain and flowing into the sea points to its location in koṅkaṇ. The Mañchālagiri where the northern river took its rise is clearly modern Māchāla hill in the Ratnāgiri District, and the river is the modern Muchakundī. The southern river is called Gaṅgā, and is said to have been flowing from Mārīcha-giri. It may be identical with the river flowing near R¬ājāpur. No hill in its neighbourhood is, however, now known as Mārīcha. Kuntāpura may have been situated in the Rājāpur District in Southern Koṅkaṇ. Kaśeli, granted by the other set of plates, is situated in the same district. ..TEXT [1]
[1] This text is given here as published by V. K. Rajvade in the Marathi journal, Prabhāla, of Dhuliā, Vol.
II, Nos. 4-7.
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