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. 47.]
last line on the obverse and the top lines on the reverse, which portion must have contained this information.
NALANDA PLATE OF DHARMAPALADEVA.
An account of the exploits of the king which are so elaborately described in the Khalimpur plate is absent in the present record. The designations of the officials and the order in which they have been mentioned in it tally more with those of the Mungir plate of Devapala than with those of the Khalimpur plate of Dharmapala. No new designations, however, occur here. Like the Mungir plate this charter mentions Gauda-Mälava-Khasa-Kulika-Huna, but not Karṇāta and Lata. Mahāsēnapati mentioned in line 5 (reverse) was probably the dutaka of this grant. Line 7 on the same side gives the name of the writer as Kuladatta, son of Dharmadatta. The words kasakārasya in line 11 and (u)tkirna in line 12 show that the grant contained the name of the engraver which is now lost. From what remains on the reverse it can be safely asserted that no imprecatory verses, which are usually found at the end of land grants, have been added in the present record.
Of the place-names mentioned in this record Nagara-bhukti has been identified with modern Patna, which as a division includes the district of Gaya even now. Nagara-bhukti is also found on the seals' discovered at Nalanda, and in the inscription of Jivitagupta II found at Deo-Baranark in the Shāhābād District. From the Nalanda inscription of Devapāla we learn that Nagara-bhukti included the vishayas of Rajagriha (Rajgir) and Gaya. The Krimila district which is mentioned as included in this bhukti in the Mungir plate has not been identified. From epigraphic documents we can assume that the Nagara-bhukti included the districts of Patna, Gaya and Shahabad. The other places mentioned in the grant I am unable to identify.
TEXT. First Side.
maha-nau-hasty-aśva-ratha-patti-sampat (tt)y-upatta-jaya-savda(bdā).
1 Om2 svasti
2 [t Kapilä ]-vasakāt śrīmaj-jaya-skandhavarat parama
3 saugatō-mahārājādhirāja śrī-Gōpäladova-pādānudhya
4 tab paraméévarah paramabhattárakö mahäräjädhirajab -
5 män Dharmmapaladēvaḥ kusali Nagara-bhuktau
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Gaya-vish
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6 y-antaḥpāti Jamvů (mbu)-nadi-vithi-prativa(ba)ddha- Nigaha-grām-asanna U
7 ttarama-grāmakē samupagatan sarvvan-ēva raja-rajana8 ka-rajaputra-rājāmātya-mahākārttäkritika-mahädandanaya9 ka-mahāpratihāra-mahāsāmanta-mahārāja-dauḥsadhasādhanika
10 pramatri-sarabhanga-kumārāmātya-rajasthāniy-ōparika-vishaya
11 pati-dāśāparādhika-chaurōddharanika-daṇḍika-danda pasika-ksha(khē)
12 [trapa-pra]ntapala-tada yuktaka-viniyuktaka-hasty-aśv-oshtra-va(ba)la-vya13 [pritaka]-kiśōra-vaḍava-gō-mahishy-adhikrita-düta-pre(prai)shanika-gama14 [gami]k-abhitvaramāņaka-Gauda-Malava-Khasa-Kulika-Huna-bhața
15 [chata]-sevak-ädin-anyan (m)ś-ch-äkirttitan-[sva]-pada-padm-ōpajīvinaḥ pra
16 [tivasinas-cha] vra(bra)hman-ōttaran-mahattara-kuṭumvi(mbi)-purōga-med-andhra-chaṇḍā
17 [la]-[paryantan-sa*]mājñāpayaty=astu [vaḥ] samvi[di*]tam yath=ōparilikhita Utta
1 P. R. A. S., E. C., 1916-17, p. 43.
Expressed by a symbol.
For analogous passages see Nidhanpur plate of Bhaskaravarman (above, Vol. XII, p. 73) and Deo-Barauark inscription of Jivitagupta II (Fleet, C. I. I., Vol. III, p. 213).
Danda unnecessary.