Indian Antiquary Vol 14

SR No.: 032506
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 418
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

Page 69

FEBRUARY, 1885.)
SANSKRIT AND OLD-KANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
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1o) sima Agnêyatah Muņdakâliya sima | dakshiņatah Vânapalliyu Samppa (pa). [100] taniyayu Mâmandetiyu sim-aiva simâ nairrityatah Godavariya simâ pa. [107] schimatab Búruvudohggu sima vayavyatah Venetiyu Masarayu sim-aiva
Fifth plate. 105] sim uttaratah Masara-Ponbaduvayu Khalmendikäliya sm i sanatah Epro] ruvankay-Uttaramuna KadalibhA(Pchâ)ți simå ICID Asy-Opari na konachid-badha
karaplya 1107 yalı karāti sa pamcha-mahapataké(kai)r=yyuktô bhavati [ll] Tath ch=8ktań
bhagavatâ Vyâs-A. [*] di-maharshi-prakarên=api | Sva"-dattam para-dattam va yo haréta Vasundharam
shashtira varshapa sahasråņi vishthayam j[A]yatd krimih ICID Bahubhiruvvasudhả d atta
bahubhisach=anupô(på). [**] litâ yasya (yasya) yada bhômis-tasya tasya tada phala (ID) Âjñar
ptih" Kați(ta)k-êáð [1157 Rachiya-Pedderi-Bhima-nama-tanújaḥ karttâ Chêtanabhaja(tta)
h k âvyânâm 1187 lêkhak0ngya Gandachâryyah (ID) Asmin=gråmå prati-varsham b häpa-siddh
[a]ya-grahaņam pamchavin() sati-nishkâņi sata-dvaya-sahitâni pamchâśad=dhânya-khandakani cha No. CLIV.
The inscription commences with an invocaCHITTUR PLATES OF KULOTTUNGA
tion of Mukunda or Vishnu. Then follows & CHODADEVA II.-SAKA 1056.
mention of the Soma vama or lineage of the The present inscription is from another set Moon (line 3), to which, it is evidently intend. of copper-plates, which belonged to Sir Walter ed to imply, the kings mentioned in the grant Elliot, K.C.S.I., and have been presented by belong. Lines 4 to 18 give the usual succeshim to the British Museum. They were
sion of Eastern Chalu k y a kings, from Kubjaobtained by him from Rajamahôndri, through Vishnuvardhana or Vishnuvardhana a Mr. Smith, who procured them from the I., down to Amma II., --with the statement Karnam of Chittûr.
that Indra reigned for seven days (1. 10.) The plates are five in number, each about Amma II. was succeeded by his elder brother 101 long by 4" broad. The edges of them are Då nårņa va, who ruled for thirty years raised into rims to protoct the writing; and (1. 18). Then came Dånarnava's son, Sakti the inscription is in a state of perfect preserva- varman,' who ruled for twelve years. Then tion glmost throughout. The ring, on which Saktivarman's younger brother, Vimalathe plates are strung, is about thick and 43 dity, for seven years (1. 19). Then Vimalain diameter; it had been cut before the grant ditya's son, R Ajar & ja II., for forty-one years. came under my notice. The seal on the ring Then Rajaraja's son, Kulottunga-Choda. is circular, about 3) in diameter; it has, indêva I., for forty-nine years (1. 20). Then relief on a countersunk surface,-across the Vikrama-Chô da, the son of the preceding, upper part, the legend Sri-Tribhuran[4*]nik- for fifteen years. And then Kulttungakusa, with an elephant-goad and the moon Choda då va II., the son of Vikrama-Choda above it; and, below the legend, a boar, stand- (1.21). ing to the proper left, with a bankha-shell, two The inscription then mentions the city of chauris, two lamp-stands, and a floral device. Sarasipuri, in a lake in the V engi man. The characters are Old-Kanarese, of the period dala (1. 22), the governor of which was to which the grant belongs. The language is Kolani-Katamana ya ka (1. 28), otherwise Sanskrit throughout.
called the Dandádhinátha Kața (1. 51). And
»* Read Barur doggu. 6 Metre, ślôka (Anushțubh); and in the following Verae.
Read itaptih. See the facsimile in the plate, ante Vol. VII. p. 253.
• This period is obtained by adding to Denarnava's real reign of three years (No. CLIII. line 49), the ensning twenty-seven years of anarchy (Id. line 48); no mention is made of the anarchy in the present inscription.
The Chalukya Chandra of No. CLIII. lino 51.