Indian Antiquary Vol 05

SR No.: 032497
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

Page 73

FEBRUARY, 1876.]
COPPER-PLATE GRANT FROM KAPÅLEŚVARA.
kara: as the linga has been placed, so to speak, in a cell within a cell, ventilation is carefully prevented. This temple has a gilt finial.
On leaving the temple, the stranger is conducted a few steps higher up, almost to the top of the hill, to a place known as the palace of the Mândh åtA RÂja, which is an ordinary building, the residence of thu high-priest of the
temple, who is said to be worth a lakh of rupees a year. There are small temples of loss importance in the vicinity. But there is nothing which so much strikes the eye froin * distance as the hilly eminence whose base is washed by the Narmada, and whose area is studded with temples and buildings rising in terraces one over another.
COPPER-PLATE GRANT FROM KAPALEŠVARA, IN ORISSA.
FORWARDED BY JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c. The transcription and translation of these I am not responsible for the interpretation plates have been made by my friend Babu Ran- or translation, though I have carefully compared galal Banerjia, a well-known Sanskrit scholar. the transcription with the original, and I am not
The plates are three in number, size 94 inches quite satisfied as to interpretation of the date, by 5, and are connected by a thick copper which would make this copper-plate nearly 1900 ring with a boss on which was apparently the years old (Samvat 34 = B.C. 23). It seems to seal of the king, which, however, is now effaced. refer to the year of the king's reign. Nor do I The two outer sides are blank, and there are understand how the Guptas came to be thus fuur sides, engraved in the ordinary Kutila paramount lords of Kaliúga, or how Kalinga character. It was found last rains by a culti- came to claim lordship over Orissa. However, vator who was ploughing at Ka pâleśvara, a as my own line of research has been linguistic village on the north bank of the Mahanadi river rather than antiquarian, I am content to leave opposite the city of Kataka, and only about the discussion of those questions to the experts four miles distant from that station. The village in such matters, and merely to supply the facts. stands near the site of the ancient city of It remains only to add that no villages called Chaud war, the former capital of Orissa, which either Dâ randa or Khalândala now exist has been abandoned for Kataka for the last three in Kataka, but that the "district of Yodha" is hundred years. The ruins of this city cover a traceable, as there is still a pargana of that name very large area, and consist of walls of laterite (now pronounced Jodh) a few miles north of stone, which are largely quarried for metalling Kataka. The use of the modern word "Sudi" roads. It is surprising that so few relics of any for the light half of the month is somewhat valuo have been found, but as the quarrying goes suspicious also. deeper down more will probably come to light.
Plate 1. स्वस्ति श्रीमहाराजसमावासिनः श्रीमतो विजयकटकात् । परमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वर श्रीशिवगुप्तदेवपादानुध्यात परममाहेश्वर परमभट्टारक महाराजाधिराज परमेश्वर सोमकुलतिलक त्रिकलिंगाधिपति मिहाराजाधिराज श्रीमहाभवगुप्तदेवः कुशली । कोशलदेशे योधाविषयी दारण्डाग्रामे तथा खलाण्डलग्रामे । ब्राह्मणान् संपूज्य तद्विषयीयान् यथाकालाध्यासिनः समाहूत सन्निवीत नियुक्तकाधिका रिक दाण्डमाशिक नाटभट्टपिशुनविधिकाररोधजनराणक
राजवल्लभादीन्
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• No one can suppose from the style of the alphabet used in these plates that they are older than the tenth century A.D. Possibly Samvat 1034 = A.D. 978 may be meant.-ED.
+ This is evidently & repetition.
1 In the original soccors, which is incorrect.
In the original it is T ; this correction is made in accordance with other plates found in the district.