Indian Antiquary Vol 01

SR No.: 032493
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY 5, 1872.
well preserved, and two or three small rooms in a corruption from Sålahattagi, or the village thein may still be seen.
| where the college is situate,' Sale being the Canarese The villagers can give no account as to word for college, and hattagi meaning village at whence the two pillars came. They have a the end of names of villages and towns. The pretradition that the nalla (stream) that flows on sent ruins at Salotgi as well as the fact that the the south of the temple washed away in one stone bearing the inscription does not appear to mor soon the sile next to the temple, and thereby have been brought from elsewhere, would go a discovered the two pillars that were till then great way to identify the latter village with Pêburied in the earth.
vittage. At the top of the present inscription is carved Narayana, the Brahman minister of Krishnain prominent relief the linga, an image of the raja, is described as living at Kanchina MuduNandi or Ball sacred to Siva, and the sun and vol, which may perhaps be identical with the moon. At the bottom of each of the first three
modern Mudho!. sides containing the Sanskrit inscription there Chakrayudha Budha, the donor, the son of are some lines cut in the Hale or old Canarese. Govinda Bhatta Budha, and lord of the village The Canarese inscription commerces at the
of Påvittage, is described as having gone, accombottom of that side of the stone on which the
panied by two hundred Brahmans, to a place on Sanskrit inscription begins, is continued at
the bank of the Godâvari, and there made the the bottom of the second side, and appears to be
krant at mid-day at the time of a solar eclipse. finished on the fourth, the whole of which is
Unfortunately the stone is broken just at the occupied by Canarese. From what I understand place which contained the name of the sacred of it at present I can safely say that the Sans- spot on the Godavari whither the donor prokrit inscription is perfectly independent of it, ceeded to bathe and make the grant. The name and it appears that the Canarese one was added
of the place began with Prâ, -and though the subsequently, and that it also relates to a grant
Godavari is expressly mentioned as the great of land for the same purpose as that recorded in
river on whose banks it lay (Godavaryam mahithe Sanskrit inscription, by a Mahamandales'vara.
nadyam), it might have really been on the Bhima, The college to which the Sanskrit inscription
considering that it is not unusual to style small records the grant of land, &c., as also the vil
streams by the name of & more celebrated river lage where it stood are mentioned in the Cana
of greater sanctity. rese inscription.
This word Mânya is repeated four or five The inscription records that in the year Saka
times. In Mânya Kheta* there can be no. 867(A.D. 945), when king Kệishņa râja call
doubt that it is part of the name of Krishnaed A kalavarsha Deva, the son of Amo
raja's capital, which several inscriptions disghavarsha, was reigning at Mânya Kheta,
tinctly mention. But as Manya is applied to the Chakrayudha, the assistant to the minister,
land, the garden, and the houses or dwellings, by name Narayana, of king Kșishnaraja,
given to the scholars and the Preceptor of the established a college and assigned lands for the
college, the word would seem to bear & technimaintenance of its innates and preceptor. The
cal signification, and that signification is previllage at which the college is established is call
served to this day in the Mânyams of the ed Pâvittage, and is described as situated
Madras Presidency. There Mânyam means in the district of Karnapuri. I have not been able
nearly the same as Agrahara, a gift of chato identify this name with any modern one, or as
rity. In Sanderson's Canarese and English certain what district or districts of our own time
Dictionary Manyam is defined es "lands either correspond with it, though it is probable it once
liable to a trifling quit-rent or altogether exempt indicated a revenue district. But it appears be
from tax." In the same place the phrase yond doubt that the Påvittage of the inscription
Bhatta Mân y am is explained as "a small is the same as Salotgi, the village where the in
portion of rent-free land in a village for the scription is found. It is possible that Salotgi įs
use of Brahmans.". In this inscription, accord• Wathen gives either Mêndya Kheta or Minya Kheta as dern UT. The engravur of the plate, by a very ordinary usage the name of the capital. It appears to me that the optional among scribes, having put a dot over the Ar, Wathen was form Mândys has its origin in a mialection of the name in naturally led into the mistake of reading Mandys. In the one passage of the Karda plate. In the Devanagari alphabet Kharepatan plates, as also in this inscription, and even in the of from the 6th to 12th centuries A.D. the compound letter Karda plates, further on than the passage above alluded to - (nya) was written in a manner that is very like the mo- the name given is clearly and invariably Minya Kheta.