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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR
No. 59 : PLATE CXIII ..THE stone bearing this inscription was found built into the house of Annacharya Panditrao in the enclosure of the temple of Mahālakshmī at Kolhāpur, and is now deposited in the town-hall of that city. An account of the contents of the inscription and its eye-copy are given in Major Graham’s Statistical Report of the Principality of Kolhāpur p. 398. The inscription was first edited without any facsimile or translation by Dr. Kielhorn in the Ep. Ind., Vol. III, pp.213 f. It is edited here from a good estampage supplied by the Chief Epigraphist for India. ..Kielhorn has given the following description of the record : “The inscription contains 23 lines of writing which covers a space of about 2’ 31/2” (69.85 cm.) broad by 2’ 21/2” (67.31 cm.) high. Down to line 14 the writing is on the whole well preserved, but the lower lines have suffered considerably, from exposure to the weather and other causes, so that in several places it is impossible to make out the exact wording of the text. At the top of the stone are some sculpture : immediately above the writing on the proper right a cow with a calf, and on the left a crooked sword or dagger; above these, again, on the right the moon and on the left the sun. The average size of the letters is about 7/8” (2.24 cm.). [1]â .. The characters are of the Nāgarī alphabet. The language is Sanskrit, and the whole record is in prose. As regards orthography, the only peculiarity noticed is the reduplication of the consonant following r in some cases (see e.g. -durgga-, line 1.).
.. The inscription refers itself to the reign of the Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Vīra-Bhōjadēva, who is evidently of the Kolhāpur branch of the Śilāhāras. Unlike other records of the age, the present inscription does not, however, give any genealogy of him, but states merely that he was, at the time of making the grants recorded here, encamped at the fort of Pranalaka.
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The object of the inscription is to record certain grants made by the king and by a
private individual to certain Brāhmaṇas evidently residing at Kolhāpur. The first of these
grant is that of a śālikhalla (rice) field measuring 550 vapyakas by the Eḍenāḍa measure,
together with a dwelling house in the village Kopparavāḍa situated in Eḍenāḍa and the
surrounding khaḍavalaka [2] (courtyard) to two Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas, namely, Ādityabhaṭṭa and Lakshmīdharabhaṭta, and two Karahāṭaka Brāhmaṇas, namely, Prabhākara
Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, residing in the maṭha constructed by the Sahavāsī
Brāhmaṇa Lōkaṇa Nāyaka for the purpose of the fivefold worship of the god Umā-Mahēśvara, a form of Amṛitēśvara, for the feeding of Sahavāsī Bhāhmaṇas, for providing naivēdya,
three times every day, to the goddess Mahālakshmī, and for keeping the maṭha in good repair.
While stating the boundaries of the field, the way leading from Tīravāḍabīḍa to the Pannāle fort is mentioned. The grant was made by the king on the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti on
Tuesday, the twelfth tithi of the dark fortnight of the month Pushya (i.e. Pausha) in
the expired Śaka year 1112, when the cyclic years was Sādhāraṇa. The date is quite regular.
The stated tithi fell on Tuesday, the 25th December A.D. 1190, when the cyclic year, accord
[1] Ep. Ind., Vol. III, pp. 213-14. A considerable portion on the left of lines 1-14 is now lost as a large piece
of the stone has been broken away since Kielhorn’s time, but its reading has been given here from an
estampage preserved in the Chief Epigraphist’s Office, from which the attached plate has been prepared.
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