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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
the whole record is in prose. The boundaries of the donated village are given in Marathi and the remaining portion is in Sanskrit. The orthography shows the usual reduplication of the consonant following r in -sarggeṇa, line 16. ..The inscription refers itself to be reign of the illustrious Sōmēśvaradēva, adorned with all royal titles. He is evidently the last known king of the Śilāhāra dynasty of North Koṅkaṇ. As in the preceding inscription, he bears the imperial titles Mahārājādhirāja and Kōṅkaṇachkravartī. As shown below, the present inscription was incised just a year after the preceding one. It mentions the same Mahāmātya, viz. Jhāmpaḍaprabhu, but, strange as it may appear, the other ministers seem to have been changed in the course of a year. The present inscription mentions the Sāndhivigrahī Māināku, two other ministers, viz. Bēbalaprabhu and Bēbalaprabhu and the Senior Minister in charge of the Treasury, viz. Gōvēnaku. ..The object of the inscription is to record the grant, by Somēśvaradēva, of an orchard known as Kōṁthalē-sthāna-vāṭikā in the village Chāṇḍijē, situated near Uraṇa, on the occasion of a solar eclipse which occurred on Monday, the fifteenth tithi of the dark fortnight of Chaitra in the Śaka year 1182 (expressed both in words figures), the cyclic year being Raudra. The date corresponds regularly to Monday, the 12th April A.D. 1260, when there was a solar eclipse and the cyclic year also was Raudra as stated here. The inscription records also the additional gifts of ten visōvas [1] and 162 Pōruttha drammas. ..The grants were made in favour of the god Uttarēśvara whose temple was situated at Sthanaka. ..Of the place-names occurring here, Uraṇa, as stated before, still retains its old name. Chāṇḍijē is now known as Chānjē. Kōṁthalē-sthāna seems to have been a part of ancient Chāṇḍijē, and cannot be traced now. Sthānaka is, of course, modern Ṭhāṇā. Text[ [2]
[1 Sankalia-Upadhyaya and Tulpule have not noted the reference to these coins. Visōvā is Marathi n]ame for
viṁśōpaka, which signified the twentieth part of a dramma. Visōvās are often mentioned in Marathi inscriptions. See P.M.K.L., Introduction, p. 101.
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