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

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...........Seen. Hail! From Pravarapura −

...By the order of the illustrious Pravarasēna (II), the Mahārāja of the Vākāṭakas, who is a fervent devotee of Mahēśvara, who, by the grace of Śambhu, has established the Kṛita-yuga (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)â

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

...(Line 18). The village named Charmāṅka (consisting of) eight thousand−8000-(nivartanas) of land, according to the royal measure, (situated) on the bank of the (river) Madhunadī in the rājya of Bhōjakaṭa, has, at the request of Kōṇḍarāja, the son of Śatrughnarāja, been given to a thousand Brāhmaṇas of various gōtras and charaṇas.

( For translation of lines 21 to 35, see above, pp. 14-15.)

...(Line 36). The ( following) two verses sung by Vyāsa should be regarded as an authority on this point :-

(Here occur two benedictive and imprecatory verses.)

...(Line 39). And this condition of the charter should be maintained by the Brāhmaṇas and (future) kings :− (This grant shall be enjoyed by the Brāhmaṇas) as long as the sun and the moon will endure, provided that they commit no treason against the kingdom consisting of seven constituents² of the (future) kings ; that they are not found guilty of the murder of a Brāhamṇa, theft, adultery and high treason, etc. ; that they do not wage war ; (and) that they do no harm to other villages. But if they act otherwise or assent to such acts, the king will commit no theft if he takes the land away (from them).

...(Line 44). And the recipients (of the grant) appointed for the occasion in this respect are (as follows) :-

...Gaṇārya of the Śāṭyāna (gōtra) ; Dēvārya of the Vātsya (gōtra) ; Kumāraśarmārya of the Bhāradvāja (gōtra) ; Guhaśarman of the Pārāśarya (gōtra) ; Dēvārya of the Kāśyapa (gōtra) ; (and) Mahēśvarārya (and) Mātrārya³ ; Rudrārya of the Kauṇḍinya (gōtra) ; Somārya (and) Hariśarmāya ; Kumāraśarmārya of the Bhāradvāja (gōtra) ; Matṛiśarman of the Kauṇḍinya (gōtra) ; (and) Varaśarman, Gōṇḍaśarman (and) Nāgaśarman ; Śāntiśarman of the Bhāradvāja (gōtra) ; (and) Rudraśarman ; Bhōjakadēvārya of the Vātsya (gōtra) ; (and) Maghaśarman (and) Dēvaśarman ; Mōkshaśarman of the Bhāradvāja (gōtra); (and) Nāgaśarman, Rēvatiśarman,
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¹ Metre: Anushṭubh.
² These are the king, his ministers, ally, territory, treasure, fortress and army.
³These two also probably belonged to the same gōtra Kāśyapa. So also in the following, where no gōtra is mentioned, that named before is to be understood.

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