Indian Antiquary Vol 13

SR No.: 032505
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 492
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

Page 159

MAY, 1884.]
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
Translation.
Om! During the prosperous reign of victory of the [illustrious] sovereign of great kings, the supreme ruler, the lord of the earth (Prithvivallabha), the illustrious Amoghavarsha, the illustrious great king; while the illustrious [great ruler] Pallasakti is governing Puri and [all] the other parts of the Konka na country,-(Pullaśakti) who [remembers] the great feudatory, [the revered illustrious Kapardin], the lord of Konkana (Konkanavallabha) [obtained] by him through the grace of (Amoghavarsha)" ;
the old minister and devoted servant of (Pullasakti), Vishnu [..]-may fortune [be
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS. BY J. F. FLEET, Bo.C.S., M.R.A.S., C.I.E. (Continued from p. 124.)
No. CXLIV.
The original plates containing the inscription now published were found by a Brahman in digging the foundations of a wall for the compound of his house at Pedda-Maddâli,' in the Nârzivid' Division of the Krishnâ District in the Madras Presidency. They were obtained by me, for the purpose of editing the inscription, through the kindness of Mr. R. Sewell, C.S.
The plates are three in number, each about 63" long by 3" broad. The edges of them are raised, so as to serve as rims to protect the writing; and, with the exception of a fold at the right corner and of a crack at the bottom of the third plate, the inscription is in a state of perfect preservation throughout. The ring, on which the plates are strung, is about" thick and 4" in diameter; it had not been cut when the grant came into my hands. The seal on the ring is oval, about
[*] Svasti
Srimad-vijay-Odayapurât
a. I road तत्प्रसादावाप्तको णवल्लभमहासा मन्तश्रीकपर्दि 28 After some such verb as 'presents' must have stood.
" Read चीवरीभ्य आर्य.
propitious to him] -the son of the illustrious Hari, [the superintendent. . .], after having made obeisance to the illustrious worshipful community at the famous mount of Krishna,
... out of great kindness twenty [Drammas to please] the illustrious holy one; three [Drummas for the repair of what may be damaged or ruined here in this monastery]. For clothes" of the worshipful community five [Drammas] shall be expended, [for books one Dramma. The perpetual endowment" (amounts to)] forty [Drammas], forty, (and) a hundred and twenty Drammas [in gold. The disposition" (as to the expenditure)] of these Drammas should be guarded like wife [and children]. In the year [765].
"Read fifa, and compare No. 15, line 4. "For the distribution of the interest compare the Inscriptions in vol. IV and V of the Archæol. Reports of W. 1., and the Valabhi grants in vols. I, IV, V, VI, and VII of the Ind. Antiquary. The first-mentioned sum of 20 Drammas I consider had to be given for the support and comfort of the monks and for the गन्धपुष्पधु
137.
Text." First plate.
1" by 14". It has, in relief on the surface of the seal itself, and not on a countersunk surface as is usually the case,-at the top, a moon; in the centre, the legend Sri-Sa[r] vvasiddhi; and, at the bottom, apparently the remains of the name Jayasinha, but the letters are almost entirely broken away and illegible. The weight of the three plates is 53 tolas, and of the ring and seal, 50 tolas;-total, 104 tolas. The language is Sanskrit through
out.
The grant is one of the Mahárája Jayasimhavallabha or Jay a sinha I., of the Eastern Chalukya family, and is issued from the city of Udayapura. It records a grant of the village of Penuka paru, on the east of (the village of) Mardavalli or perhaps Maddâvalli, in the vishaya of Gudrahara. And it is dated in the eighteenth year of his reign, i.e. in or about Saka 582 (A.D. 660-1).
bhagavapvi(t-Sva) mi-Mahasêna-pad-ânuqqaf specially mentioned in other inscriptions. The total sum to be yearly expended was 29 Drammas, which according to the legal rate of interest would require a capital of about 200 Drammas. The fact that this capital is in the above denoted by the expression 40 40 *120 Drammas, may be accounted for by assuming that (as e.g. in Nasik insor. No. 10, Arch. Survey IV, p. 104) it was entrusted not to one, but to several persons or guilds.
1 No. 3 in Mr. Sewell's published List of Copper-plate Grants. Noticed by me, ante Vol. X. p. 243, No. 7. * From the original plates.