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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
TRANSLATION .. [Success !] In the Śaka (year) 1076, the cyclic year being Bhāva, on the full-moon tithi of the bright fortnight of Māgha, on the holy occasion of the four hōmas (sacrifices) in the presence of number of people‒ .. (Line 3) The channels around the (public) well, belonging to the residents of the village Turubhāmra dedicated to the god Agnihōtra, have been destroyed by some evil-minded person. .. (Line 4) So today, during the reign of the illustrious Haripāladēva, the respected Sāhakaiya and others [have resolved] that those who will damage the existing channels which drain out water as well as those that will be made (hereafter) and that of the Sāvukara[2] . . [will be punished.] ..(Line 6)[3] The villager, whether of a low or a high status, who, with a hostile intention, will [cause damage] to this (channel) in this place . . .[4], .. (Here follows the usual verse stating that the religious merit of the gift will accrue to him who is the ruler of the land at the time.)
No. 28 : PLATE LXVI .. THE stone bearing this inscription was discovered under the wall of a house at Chipḷūṇ in the Ratnāgiri District in South Koṅkaṇ in 1879, as stated in the proceedings of a meeting of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society held on the 3rd September 1879. It is very briefly noticed in the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I, part ii, p. 20, n. 1. Dr. Kielhorn calculated its date in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXIII, pp. 116-117, and included it in his List ofthe Inscriptions of Southern India, p. 56. It was edited for the first time with a facsimile by Dr. M.G. Dikshit in the Journal of the University of Bombay (New Series), Vol. XIII, part I, pp. 60 f., and was re-edited from the same facsimile by Dr. S.G. Tulpule in his Prāchīna Marāṭhī Kōrīva Lēkha, pp. 53 f. It is edited here from the same facsimile. The stone is now deposited in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. ..
The inscription is engraved on two faces of a stone, which originally must have measured
about 1’ 10” (55.88 cm.) by 1’ 10” (55.88 cm.). It is referred to as Śāsana-stambha in line 12 of
the present inscription and so may have formed part of a pillar. The record seems to have
originally consisted of at least twenty-five lines, of which twelve are inscribed on one side of the
[1] Metre : Anushṭubh.
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