Epigraphia Indica Vol 16

SR No.: 032570
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: F W Thomas, H Krishna Sastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 474
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA ENDICA.
[VOL. XVI.
compartments: the first, containing 1. 1, is about 2 ft. wide and 27 in. high, and the second (11. 2-53) is about 2 ft. wide and 4 ft. 7 in. high.-The character is good Kanarese of the period, with lotters varying in l. 1 from in. to in. in height, and in 11. 2-53 from in. to do in. The subscript oh (see 11. 14, 30, etc.) is almost exactly like subscript dh. The language is Old Kanarese, except in the formal Sanskrit verses Nos. 1, 7-9. The ! has been changed to throughout, but pis preserved. The spelling 'bhavinas-po (1. 49), for the more regular bhavinah-p', is noteworthy. The word addagara-vadi (1. 37) seems new..
The record first refers itself to the reign of Tribhuvanamalle, i.e. Vikramaditya VI (11. 2-5), and then introduces ia verse and prose the High Minister and General Bhivaņayys, or Bhima, a native of Kashmir, who held the title of maha-sdmantadhipati and filled several important offices, being at the time the administrator of the Palssige Twelve-thousand and the controller of the achchu-panndya, one of the departments of taxation (11. 5-15). Next come four verses and a prose description of Bhivapayya's subordinate the General Madhava-Bhatta,
soldier, statesman, and man of taste, who was a High Minister and a president" (adhishthayaka, probably head of the local department) of the achchu-pannaya (11. 15-31). The follow. ing paragraph (11. 31-43) gives the date and details of an ondowment granted by Madhava to the temple of Svayambhu-Somogvara at Purigere and to the associated cult of Mudde vara out of the fiscal revenues controlled by him, the trustte being Mahendrasoma, the prior of the local monastery.
The date is specified on ll. 32-33 as the 27th year of the Chalukya-Vikrama era, Chitrabbinu ; Ashădha fu. 5; Sunday ; & vyatipata. This is regular, 80 far as it goes : the given lithi corresponded to Sunday, 22 June, A.D. 1102, on which day it ended 17 h. 30 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain).
The only geographical names mentioned are: Kasmira (1. 10); the Palasige Twelve. thousand and the Seven and a half Lakh Country (1. 14); Purigere (11. 35, 36, 38); and the tirthas (11.43 f.). Palacige is the modern Halsl, situate in lat. 15° 32' and long. 74° 36'. Purigere, also called Puligere and later Huligere, with the Sanskritised bye-form Parikara, is the modern Lakshměshwar.
TEXT. [Metres : v. 1, 7, 9, Anushfrbh; vv. 2, 6, Mattēbhavikridita ; vv. 3, 5, 10, Kanda ; v. 4, Champakamala ; v. 8, Salint.] 1 Nama (ma)s-tuga-siras-chumbi-ohandra-chamara-chåravo trailokya-nagar-aram
bham(bha)-mūļa-stambhāya Sa(fa)mbhave || [1] © 2 © Svasti samasta-bhuvan-áfraya Śrt-Pțithvi-vallabha mahārājadhirāja para3 måsvara paramabhattarakam Satysraya-kula-tiļakam Chaluky-ábharanam Srimnt
Tri4 bhuvanamalls-dēvara vijaya-rajyam=uttaröttar-abhivriddhi-pravarddhamanam=i5 chandr-arkka-taram baram saluttam-ire [1] tat-pada-pad-Opajivi | Vritta ||
Dhurado!=tåne 6 dhuramda(dha)ram samuchit-apt-aļdchan-agresar-Amtaradoletâne samagra-mantri
perar-i7 1[1]-end-intu karunyadim pored=āļdam charitakke mechchi piridum kond-ade
dapdádbinātha
See Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 451.
On the significance of the title Svayambhu see my paper on the Kurgöd inscr. B. above, Vol. XIV, p. 278. . I have to thank Mr. Robert Sewell for bis belp in calculating the dates of the inscriptions in this paper. • From the ink-impression.