North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR

his offspring was Gaṇḍarādityadēva. His son, the illustrious Vijayādityadēva—who is shining with the titles such as ‘the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara, ‘(he) who has obtained the five mahāśabdas’, ‘the lord of Tagara, the best of towns,’ ‘a king born in the illustrious Śiḷāhāra race’, ‘a scion of the family of Jīmūtavāhana, ‘(he) who has the banner of the Golden Eagle’, ‘a serpent to the hostile army’, ‘a lion-like son of his father’, ‘a veritable Bhairava to the hostile feudatories’, ‘a lion to the elephants that are his foes’, ‘the Sun of archers’, ‘Vikramāditya of the Kali age’, ‘Nārāyaṇa in respect of a handsome form’, ‘(he) who has seized hill fortresses’, ‘(he) who is successful (even) on Saturdays’, ‘(he) who has obtained a boon by the favour of the goddess Mahālakshmī’, while governing victoriously, diverting (his mind) by pleasant conversation at the permanent camp of Vaḷavāḍa—has donated together with a royal charter— when the Śaka years one thousand and seventy-three, in figures 1073, have expired and the cyclic year Pramōda is current, on the holy occasion of a lunar eclipse on Friday, the full-moon tithi of Bhādrapada—a field measuring one fourth of a nivartana by the rod of the Kuṇḍi-dēśa, a flower-garden measuring thirty stambhas by the same rod, and a house measuring twelve cubits in the village (mentioned below) as gifts free from all taxes, free from all molestations (and) to be enjoyed as long as the moon, the sun and the stars endure, after washing the feet of Arhanandi-siddhāntadēva, the disciple of the great sage—.

.. (V. 2). the holy Māghanandi-siddhāntadēva, who is praised by the whole world, (who is) a disciple of the sage Kulachandra and is the Sun to the Kundakunda clan (and) who is the preceptor of the Chaitya temple of the holy Rūpanārāyaṇa at Kshullakapura belonging to the Pustaka Gachchha of the Mūla-Saṅgha and Dēśīyagaṇa. And again,

..(V.3). May that Māghananadin be victorious! While the world is enveloped by his glory, such conjectures as the following are made—Is the elephant of Indra pervading the expanse of heaven and earth by his body ? Is the milk-ocean covering the whole world ? Is the water of the Gaṅgā surrounding it (on all sides) ? Is the thick, pleasant and lasting moon-light shining ?

.. The King has made the afore-mentioned gifts by pouring out water at the request of his (i.e. the king’s) maternal uncle Lakshmaṇa Sāmanta and as gifts of his family for the eightfold worship of the gods at the temple of the holy Pārśvanātha constructed at the village of Maḍalūra comprised in [Pa]ṇaturage-golla by Chōdhorekāma-gāvuṇḍa, son of Saṇagamayya and Chaṁdha . . vvā, husband of Punnakabbā and father of Janta-gāvuṇḍa and Hemma-gāvuṇḍa, for repairs of what may be broken or dilapidated and for providing food to the ascetics living there.

.. (Here follow five benedictory and imprecatory verses.)

.. May it be well with the teaching of the Jina !—(the teaching) which takes counter measures, which is skilful in tearing open the temples of the intoxicated elephants that are other (opposing) disputants, and in synthesizing its own doctrine.

..(Line 43). This was engraved by Gōvyōja, the son of the goldsmith Bammyōja and lay-disciple of Abhinandadeva.