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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH
...As the first three plates are not forthcoming now, all important particulars such as the names of the donor and the donee, the land or the village granted, its boundaries etc. are lost. But as the characters of the present plate resemble those of the Pāṭnā Museum and other plates of the Vākāṭaka king Pravarasēna II, the present grant also was probably made by him. The opening words of the extant portion state that it was made for the increase of religious merit, life strength and prosperity of the donor. This statement clearly shows that the present plate could not have belonged to the same set as the Pāṭnā Museum plate which records a gift for the increases of the religious merit of Pravarasēna II’s mother. The subsequent portion records the usual immunities granted in respect agrahāra village. Except for certain variants, they are identical with those which usually figure in Vākāṭaka copper-plate inscriptions. The concluding lines convey the royal order that none should cause an obstacle in the enjoyment of the gift, but that it should by all means be protected and augmented. This was followed by the usual warning, only a part of which appears on the present plate, that whoever, disobeying the royal order, would cause the slightest hindrance, would receive condign punishment, if reported against by the Brāhmaṇas. In the absence of the last plate, it is not possible to state the names of the writer and the Dūtaka nor the regnal year when the grant was made.
...The plate does not make any addition to our historical information ; for the formal part of the grant which is preserved on the present plate is common to several other Vākāṭaka inscriptions.
1 From the facsimiles facing p. 28 in N.U.J., No. III.
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