The Indian Analyst
 

North Indian Inscriptions

 

 

Contents

Introduction

Preface

Contents

List of Maps and Plates

Abbreviations

Additions and Corrections

Images

Introduction

Political History

The Early Silaharas

The Silaharas of North Konkan

The Silaharas of South Konkan

The Silaharas of Kolhapur

Administration

Religious Condition

Social Condition

Economic Condition

Literature

Architecture and Sculpture

Texts And Translations  

Inscriptions of the Silaharas of North Konkan

Inscriptions of The Silaharas of South Konkan

Inscriptions of The Silaharas of kolhapur

APPENDIX I  

Additional Inscriptions of the Silaharas

APPENDIX II  

A contemporary Yadava Inscription

Index

Other South-Indian Inscriptions 

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Vol. 4 - 8

Volume 9

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Volume 15

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Volume 18

Volume 19

Volume 20

Volume 22
Part 1

Volume 22
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Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 26

Volume 27

Tiruvarur

Darasuram

Konerirajapuram

Tanjavur

Annual Reports 1935-1944

Annual Reports 1945- 1947

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2

Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1

Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2

Epigraphica Indica

Epigraphia Indica Volume 3

Epigraphia
Indica Volume 4

Epigraphia Indica Volume 6

Epigraphia Indica Volume 7

Epigraphia Indica Volume 8

Epigraphia Indica Volume 27

Epigraphia Indica Volume 29

Epigraphia Indica Volume 30

Epigraphia Indica Volume 31

Epigraphia Indica Volume 32

Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2

Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2

Vākāṭakas Volume 5

Early Gupta Inscriptions

Archaeological Links

Archaeological-Survey of India

Pudukkottai

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF KOLHAPUR

 

from Tīravāḍabīḍa to the fort of Pannāle with the following four boundaries, viz. to the east of a tax-paying field, to the north of the dam of an empty tank marked by a field-deity, to the west of a karañja field and to the south of the vṛtti-field and the karañja-field belonging to Dēsilēya and Chēṇḍikēya‒by pouring water on the hands of the four Brāhmaṇas residing in the maṭha (mentioned below), (viz.) the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas Ādityabhaṭṭa and Lakshmīdharabhaṭta, and the Karahāṭaka Brāhmaṇas Prabhākara Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, for the worship, with five offerings, of the god Umā-Mahēśvara in the form of Amṛitēśvara, established in the maṭha caused to be constructed by the Sahavāsī (Brāhmaṇa) Lōkaṇa Nāyaka, for providing food to Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas for offering the naivēdya there times a day to the goddess Mahālakshmī, and for the repairs of what may be broken or dilapidated of that maṭha, the gift being free from all taxes, free from all molestation, faultless in respect of all income and not to be interfered with by any royal servant even with a finger and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure.

..(Lines 13-19) Besides,‒on Friday, the first tithi of the bright fortnight of Āśvina in the current (cyclic) year Paridhāvin, when a thousand years increased by one hundred and fourteen had elapsed by the era of the Śaka king, Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, son of the same Sahavāsī (Brāhmaṇa) Lōkaṇa Nāyaka, gave to the aforementioned four Brāhmaṇas‒with the pouring out of water, as a gift free from all molestation, faultless in respect of all income and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure‒a half vṛtti consisting of one largest nivartana and one smallest nivartana, together with a half of a first-rate house and a middle-type house along with the khadavalaka (courtyard) connected therewith, within the limits of the agrahāra village Pauva situated in the Tāluragekholla which belonged to Lakhumaṇa-Ghaisāsa by purchasing it from the Mahājanas who had purchased it for a gift from the previous owner (viz., Lakhumaṇa Ghaisāsa)‒for the feeding of the Brāhmaṇas in the charitable feeding house established by (the donor’s ) mother Pomakauva.

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(Lines 19-23) Moreover‒

.. On Friday, the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the (cyclic) year Pramādin, the same Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, having purchased, from Māyiṁkauvā, the daughter’s daughter of Somēśvarabhaṭṭa of the Chhandōga (Sāmavēda), the northern half of a nivartana of the best land in her field on the eastern direction and within the limits of the same agrahāra village Pauva‒donated it by pouring water on the hands of the afore- mentioned four Brāhmaṇas as a gift free from all molestation, faultless in respect of all income, and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure.

No. 60 : PLATES CXIV-CXVII
KASELI GRANT OF BHOJA II : SAKA YEAR 1113

.. THIS copper-plate great was discovered in 1820. It was in the possession of a Brahmaṇa of Sātārā, who lent it to James Grant [2] . The latter placed it at the disposal of Dr. Taylor of Bombay, who supplied a transcript of the record with an English translation. These were published in the Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, Vol. III. (first published in 1823, pp 391 f, and later reprinted in 1877, pp. 413 f.) The plates are said to be now in
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[1] It seems that the Mahājanas of the village had the right of pre-emption in respect of some lands in the village. So Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka could not directly purchased the field from its owner, Lakshmaṇa Ghaisāsa.
[2] Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay, Vol. III (1877), p. 411.

 

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