Epigraphia Indica Vol 05

SR No.: 032559
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 458
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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No. 15.)
THREE GRANTS OF GOVINDACHANDRA.
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Mangalar *J[y* jeshtha-vedi 8 Bacha)nau i Likhitar
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mahd-fre 11 Samvat 1180 ch-adamia hukkara-Vi[shnu]nl
B.-MACHHLISHAHR PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA
OF [VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1201. This is a single plate which was found, in September 1888, in a field close to a small hamlet seven miles north of Michhlishahr (Ghiswa) in the Jaunpur district of the North-Western Provinces, and is now in the Lucknow Museum. It measures about 1'81 broad by 11} high, and is engraved on one side only. In the centre of the upper part it has a ring-hole, through which passes a ring, with a circular seal which is about 21" in diameter and bears the same legend and emblems as the seal of the inscription A., but apparently not so well preserved The plate contains 29 lines of writing which, on the whole, is well preserved. The size of the letters is between 1" and " The characters are Nagari, and the language is Sanskrit. The writer has done his work well, and in respect of orthography, therefore, it need only be stated that, except in the word babhramur= in line 9, the letter b is denoted by the sign for , and that the dental sibilant is occasionally employed instead of the palatal.
This is another inscriptions of the Paramabhaffaraka Maharajadhiraja Paramétvara Ghôvindschandradova, who records that, on Monday, the Akshaya-tfitiya tithi of the bright half of the month Vaibakhs of the year 1201 (given both in words and in figures), after bathing in the Ganges at Benares, he granted the village of Peroha in the Mahasoya pattala to the Pandita Vandadharafarman, son of the Pandita Padmanabha and son's son of the Pandita Bharata, a Brahman of the Kalyapa gótra, whose three .prasaras were Khayapa, Å vatsåra and Naidhruva. - The taxes specified (in line 20) are the bhdgabhogakara, pravanikara and turushkadanda. The grant (tâmra) was written by the Kdyastha Dhandhaka.
About the exact equivalent of the date I am somewhat doubtful. It is true that, for the Chaitradi Vikrama-Samvat 1201 current, the date would regularly correspond to Monday, the løth April A.D. 1148, when the third tithi of the bright half of Vaisakha ended 21 h. 52 m. after mean sunrise. But as current years are only quoted very exceptionally, and as for the Karttikadi Vikrama-Samvat 1202 expired the date would correspond to Monday, the 16th Adel A.D. 1146, which was entirely occupied by the third tith of the bright half of Vaikhs, I am rather inclined to assume that this is really the day o.. which the grant was made, and that in the inscription the year 1201 has been quoted erroneously instead of 1202.3
Regarding the localities I can only say that the Mahasoye pattald of this insoription undoubtedly is the same district which in an insoription of Jayachchandra is called the Mahasd pattald.
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. . . 6-Srimad-Govindachandradevo vijay? II? Mahasya
. -Brimad. pattaidyar | Parðha-gr&ma-nivåsinô ni(kh Jila-janapadan=upagatân=api cha raja-rajñi-yavaraja-mam
1 I am somewhat doubtful about the aksara in brackets; sbove it the sign for the medinl & ww engraved, bat has been struck out again. The Thakkura Vishna wrote the grant of Govindacbandrs publisbed above. Vol. IV. p. 113 f.
This very probably is the name writer who in another inscription of Govindachandrs is described as the Thakkura Dhidhåks see above, Vol. IV. p. 114, inscription L.
There are numerous other dates, of both the Vikrama and the Saks era, in which we find the same error. • See above, Vol. IV. p. 122, line 18 of the text.
From an impression supplied by Dr. Fübrer. • Up to this, the text is practically identical with the text of the Kamauli plate of Govindachandra, publisbed above, Vol. IV. p. 100 f. This and the other signs of punctuation in line 12-19 are supernuous.
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