Epigraphia Indica Vol 23

SR No.: 032577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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No. 44.] A STONE INSCRIPTION OF YADAVA RAMACHANDRA : SAKA 1222. 281
11 घाटनानि" पूर्वे " सानुठाकुराची वृति (त्ति) दक्षिणें विष्णुन्हाचो वृति (त्ति) पखिमें 12 राजमार्ग उतरे विरा" एवं (च) तुराघाटनानि" सु (स्व) सीमापर्यतं सतृणकाष्ठो 13 दकोपेतं दायाद्यदि' संबंधविवर्जितं सर्वोत्पत्ति (त्ति) महितं सिधां-पोरुद्र
14 माणां दशविसो च दिषष्ठो द्रमात्यधी कर्मकशतानि
अंकतोपि द्र १२ ॥
15 श्रीस्थानीय श्रीउत्तरेख (ख) रदेवाय" शासनप्रतिबधं ( इं ) कत्वा" महाराजश्री - वर्तमानस्यास्य धर्मस्य परिपं
16 सोमेख (ख) रवेन" उदकातिसच प्रदत्तं ॥ 17 धना न से (के) नापि कार्या" वदतां (nt) कार्या" वदतां (त्तां) वसुंधरा (पठि(ष्टि)वर्ष
परदतां ( तां) वा यो हरेत् (त)
18 सांचि बिठायां जायते कमि (मिः) | मंगल मा(म) हाथो[:] [शुभं भवतु ।
No. 44. A STONE INSCRIPTION OF YADAVA RAMACHANDRA; SAKA 1222.
BY H. D. SANKALIA, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. (LOND.) AND S. C. UPADHYAYA, M.A., LL.B.
This inscription is now preserved in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. It is not known whence it came. The trustees of the Museum and the Curator, Mr. G. V. Acharya, have been good enough to allow us to edit it.
The stone on which it is inscribed measures 2' 8" by 1' 3", and the inscribed portion, which contains 17 lines of writing, is 1' 4" in length. The average size of letters is". Above the inscribed portion is cut out a rectangle 13" by 34". In this are carved in low relief, on the left the Sun and on the right the Moon. Above this on the apex is a kalasa. Below the inscribed portion also there is a rectangle, now half broken off, which contains the figure of an ass facing right as found in many other Silahāra and Devagiri Yadava inscriptions.5
The record is dated in Saka 1222 Sārvari Samvatsara, Srāvana Vadi 7, Monday and regularly corresponds to Monday 8th August, A.D. 1300.
The inscription is of Jaideva, a governor appointed by Ramadeva, to rule over Konkan. Rāmadēva himself was a commander-in-chief, and lord of the Western coast under Ramachandradēva, who bore the biruda Praudhapratāpachakravartin.
From the date and the biruda it is evident that the inscription belongs to the reign of Ramadēva or Ramachandradeva the last king of the Devagiri Yadavas. Though many copper plates and stone inscriptions of his or his reign are noted and a few published, this would be the first -stone inscription from Konkan ( ? ) published so far. However, so far as the date is concerned,
1 This dot which stands for a stop is unnecessary.
2 Read-mārgah.
3 Read rin-day-adi.
4 Read dvi-shashti-dramm-idhilaai satam = ēkuin
Cf. above pp. 270ff. and Vol. VII, Appendix, pp. 66 and 68, Nos. 372 and 381.
• See Rice, Mysore Inscriptions, and Graham, Kolhapoor, extracts from these are noted above, Vol. VII, Appendix, pp. 66-68 (Nos. 368-382).
Even the copper plate is only one, see J. R. A. S., Vol. V,
P. 178.