South Indian Inscriptions - Inscriptions collected during the year 1908-09 @ whatisindia.com

Contents
Introduction
Preface
Contents
List of Plates
Abbreviations
Corrigenda
Images
Introduction
The Discovery of the Vakatakas
Vakataka Chronology
The Home of The Vakatakas
Early Rulers
The Main Branch
The Vatsagulma Branch
Administration
Religion
Society
Literature
Architecture, Sculpture and Painting
Texts And Translations
Inscriptions of The Main Branch
Inscriptions of The Feudatories of The Main Branch
Inscriptions of The Vatsagulma Branch
Inscriptions of The Ministers And Feudatories of The Vatsagulma Branch
Index
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
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 MAIN BRANCH

(Golden Age) (on the earth), who was born of Prabhāvatīguptā, the daughter of the Mahārājādhirāja, the illustrious Dēvagupta, and who is the son of the Mahārāja, the illustrious Rudrasēna II-

(For translation of lines 1-10, see above, pp. 13-14.)

...(Line13). The village Mahalla-lāṭa in the Asi bhukti in the mārga of Śailapura has been donated (by Us) to Sūryasvāmin of the Kāśyapa gōtra and Taittirīya (śākhā) who resides in the (village) Pravarēśvara-shaḍviṁśati-vāṭaka¹.

...Wherefore. Our officials of noble birth, who are employed by the order of the Sarvādhyaksha (General Superintendent) and who exercise their authority by (Our) command, and (Our) Soldiers and Policemen should be directed by the (following) command which is already well-known (to them) :-

... âBe it known to you that in order to increase Our religious merit, life, power, victory and prosperity, to secure Our well-being in this world and the next and to obtain blessings for Ourself, We have given (this village) as a gift not previously made, with the pouring out of water, in (Our) victorious place of religious worship.

(The rest of the grant is not forthcoming. )

SET B

....(Line12). By the order of the illustrious Pravarasēna (II), the Mahārāja of the Vākāṭakas, . . . . .

(For translation of lines 7 to 12, see above, pp. 13-14.)

...The two villages (viz.) the village named Dīrghadraha in the Pākkaṇa rāshṭra and the village Mahallama-lāṭa in the Asi bhukti in the mārga of Śailapura, have been donated (by Us) to Sūryasvāmin of the Kāśyapa gōtra and the Taittirīya śākhā, who resides in the Pravarēśvara-shaḍviṁśati-vāṭaka.

(For translation of lines 15 to 25, see above, p. 14.)

...(Line 26). And the following two verses sung by Vyāsa should be regarded as an authority on this point :-

...(Here follow two benedictive and imprecatory verses. ) (Line 29). (This charter) was written by [Maṇi], Chitravarman being the Sēnāpati, on the thirteenth−10 (and) 3−(lunar day ) in the bright fortnight of Kārttika in the eleventh −10 (and) I− (regnal) year.
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¹ This seems to be a territorial division of twenty-six village named after a shrine in honour of Śiva under the name of Pravarēśvara, apparently built by Pravarasēna I. See below, p. 63.

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