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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
the Dēśīya-Gaṇa of the Mūla-Saṅgha, who is the priest of the famous temple of Rūpanārāyaṇa in Kōllāpura—have donated the following rates with the pouring out of water :— .. (Lines 26-32). Areca-nuts fifty on a load, twenty on a half-load, five on a hasara ; betel leaves, one hundred on a load, fifty on a head-load, twenty-five on a sollage on each pitcher of clarified butter and oil, one half maund on each siddige, one maund on each sangaḍi ; paṇa on cach honge (gold cloin) on articles sold in each cloth-merchant’s and gold- smith’s shop ; five palas on each maḷave of cloth ; two bīsige on each maḷave of karuse ( sold ) from carts, ten palas on each half-load ; a stool, a tripod, and a maravi on each house of carpenters every six months, and one bedstead every year ; in the case of goods sold by weight, five palas on each head-load, two palas on each half-load and one pala on each hasara of green ginger, turmeric, dry ginger, garlic, baje and bhadramuste ; one maund on each cart-load, a half maund on each halfload, a sollage on each hasara in the case of cummin, black pepper and mustard ; one koḷaga on each cart-load, two maunds on each load and one maund on each head-load in the case of salt and similar articles and eighteen kinds of grains ; ten on each cart-load of dry and fresh fruits, and four on each head-load ; one daṇḍige and five myrobolans on each cart-load ; one daṇḍige and two myrobolans on each pair of hūṭes ; one garland on each basket of flowers ; one pot on each shop of potters. ..(Lines 32-33). (Here occurs an imprecatory formula of the usual type.)
No. 50 : PLATES CIII AND CIV ..THIS inscription is incised on some beams of the maṇḍapa of the shrine of Śēshaśāyī in the back yard of the great temple of Mahālakshmī at Kolhāpur [1]. It was very briefly noticed in the Report on Indian Epigraphy for 1945-46, p. 40. It is edited here from an excellent inked estampage supplied by Dr. G. S. Gai, Chief Epigraphist, who has also kindly provided me with the transcript of its text and its translation given below. .. As shown below, the present inscription has been incised on five beams of a temple of the Jaina Tīrthaṅkara Ādinātha, which was later converted into the present Śēshāśāyī temple. The first eight lines of the record have been equally divided on the four alternate beams of the octagonal support of the ceiling of the main maṇḍapa, below a row of small figures of standing Tīrthaṅkaras carved all round. The remaining two lines have been incised on the outside of a large beam of its outer maṇḍapa.
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The characters are of the Kannaḍa alphabet and are palaeographically assignable to the
first half the 12th century A.D. Each of the five extant sections of the text consists of two lines
of writing, and one noteworthy peculiarity is that an ornamental flourish is given to some letters
while marking the medial vocalic signs and subscripts. The language of the extant portion of
the text is Kannaḍa, and but for a passage at the end of line 2, an incomplete passage towards
the end of line 4 and the concluding passage in line 10, the whole text is metrically composed.
As regards orthography, it may be pointed out that the consonant following r is uniformly
doubled, and the class-nasal is in some places used for the anusvāra. In writing śrīmaṁn (line 2) [1] See Graham’s Kolhāpur, Inscriptions Nos. 19-21.
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