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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
TRANSLATION Success ! Hail ! May there be victory and prosperity! ..In the Śaka year 1108, in the month of Māgha, the (cyclic) year being Parābhava— this day here, during the beneficial and victorious reign of the Mahārājādhirāja and Kōṅkaṇa-chakravartī, the illustrious Aparādityadēva (II), who is adorned with all royal titles, while the government consisting of the Mahāmātya, the illustrious Bhōpa Vyōmaśambhu, the Senior Treasury Officer and Mahāsāndhivigrahika, the illustrious Anantapaiprabhu, and the Junior Treasury Officer, the illustrious Amuka, and others is, by his grace, bearing the burden of the cares of the whole administration,—at such a timeâ ..I, the illustrious Aparādityadēva, desirous of My own spiritual welfare, having bathed on the full-moon tithi of Māgha, having offered arghya to the divine Sun, the lord of the lotus-plant, and having worshipped the divine lord of Umā (i.e. Śiva), have, for the worship with five offerings of the divine Vaidyanātha, the lord of Darbhāvatī, donated, with the pouring out of water, twenty-four drammas—in figures, 24 drammas—out of the ear-marked produce of the orchard belonging to Anantapaiprabhu, situated in the village Māhavali included in the Shaṭshashṭi (vishaya), after exempting it from all additional subsidiary taxes.
.. (Line 14) So, none should cause any obstruction in this orchard. He, the sinful person, who, out of greed for wealth, levies additional taxes on the (afore-mentioned) ear-marked produce of the garden, will incur all the five sins together with minor sins, and will, for a long time, experience (the miseries of ) the hells such as Raurava, Mahāraurava, Tāmisra, Andhatāmisra and Kumbhīpāka. For— (Here follow two imprecatory verses.) ..(Line 22) Moreover, whoever will destroy this royal order, on him and his family will fall the spear[2] of the god Vaidyanatha. .. (Here follows the Ass-curse.) .. This has been written by Chaliga Paṇḍita, born in a Kayastha family.
No. 33 : PLATE LXXI THE stone bearing this inscription was found while digging in front of the ancient temple of Trivikrama in the fort of Bassein. The record was first edited in Marathi, without a facsimile plate, by Dr. V.B. Kolte in the Marathi journal Itihāsa āṇi Saṁskṛiti, No. 26. It is edited here from an estampage supplied by Mr. V. G. Khobrekar, Director of Archives and Archaeology, Bombay.
The stone bearing the present inscription is 75 cm. in height and 34cm. in breadth. Like [1] This akshara indicates that the record ends here.
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