North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR

heroism by protecting the people ; his pleasing speech was in keeping with the truth ; his mind was engaged in the contemplation of the feet of Hari (god Vishṇu) ; his wealth was spent in removing the adversity of good people. What poet is able to extol the merits of that Vijayaditya with proper discernment ?

..(V. 13). Victorious is king Bhōjadēva (II), the son of Vijaya (i.e. Vijayāditya), the sun that dispels the frost in the form of his enemies, the sickle that mows the creeper in the form of . . . . ; who is veritable Indra in respect of wealth and victories; who has destroyed a multitude of his enemies; and who is served by great kings.

..(V. 14). As Rāma . . . . . even so that god incarnated himself in the kingdom of Bhoja.

.. (Line 17). Hail ! The illustrious Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara, the glorious Bhōjadēva (II)‒who has obtained the five mahāśabdas, and who is adorned with all royal titles such as ‘a scion of the great Silāra family’, ‘Gāṅgēya in respect of moral purity . . . ‘a uterin brother of others’ wives’, ‘an adamantine cage for the protection of those that seek refuge’, ‘Yudhishṭhira in the Kali Age’, ‘(he) who is learned by nature (or a Vidyādhara by birth)’, ‘(he) who has obtained the favour of a boon from the holy Mahālakshmī,’ (and) ‘the lord of Tagara, the best of towns’, who is governing his kingdom, holding pleasant conversation for his own diversion at his camp at Vaḷbavāḍa‒has, on the holy occasion of the Uttarāyaṇa-saṅkrānti of the Sun on Tuesday, the fourth tithi of the bright fortnight of Pushya (i.e. Pausha) in the current cyclic year Śubhakṛit, when 1104 years have elapsed by the era of the Śaka king, granted, together with a royal charter for the augmentation of his kingdom, a house measuring twelve cubits in the south-western direction of and within the enclosure of the maṭha caused to be constructed by the Sahavāsī (Brāhmaṇa) Lōkaṇa Nāyaka within the enclosure of and to the north of the western gate of the famous temple of Mahālakshmī at Kollāpura, for the worship of Umā-Mahēśvara, a form of Amṛitēśvara, and for the feeding of the Brāhmaṇas, to serve as a granary of the maṭha, and four white houses situated to the south of the group of dwellings to the Brāhmaṇas such as the Sahavāsīs Ādityabhaṭṭa and Janārdanabhaṭṭa, and the Karahātakas Prabhākara Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, who reside in that maṭha, and also a flower-garden in the east for the worship with five-fold offerings of the god, and a filed measuring four hundred and fifty (vaprakas) in the northern direction and within the limits of the village Seleyavāḍa comprised in the Paṇaturage golla together with house connected therewith, measuring twelve cubits, in the village Paṇḍarana by pouring water (on their hands) as gifts free from taxes, free from all molestation and not to be interferred with by royal servants even with a finger, and lasting as long as the moon, the sun and the earth will endure.

.. (Line 28) And for the worship, with five offerings, of the same god, for the repairs of what may be broken and dilapidated of that maṭha, and for providing food to the Brāhmaṇas dwelling there, the same Lōkaṇa Nāyaka has donated by a royal charter a filed measuring two hundred and twenty-five vaprakas by the rod of Eḍenāḍa in . . . . . . . . in Eḍenāḍa and also a house measuring twelve cubits, and a filed measuring . . . . . . nivartanas as well as a house measuring twelve cubits together with āruvaṇa and together with the right to eight-fold enjoyment, after purchasing it for the purpose of the gift from Nēmaṇa and Lakshmaṇa, sons of the Mahattara Mādhavārya and grandsons of Uddhavārya of the Kāśyapa gōtra‒the gift being free from all taxes, free from all molestation and faultless in respect of all income and lasting as long as the moon, the sun and the stars endure.

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

..(Line 39) The wealth of those who will die sonless will pass over to the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas in this world.