Indian Antiquary Vol 21

SR No.: 032513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

Page 107

APRIL, 1892.]
THE AMGACHHI GRANT OF VIGRAHAPALADEVA III.
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From him, in consequence of his religious merits, was born the fortunate prince Nayapala Renouncing the attachment to sin, putting down his foot on the heads of princes, eagerly fulfilling all desires, free from mental blindness, beloved by his subjects, and the one home of affection, - he was like the sun which, when it rises from the eastern mountain, moves away from the night, touches with its rays the tops of mountains, opens up quickly all the quarters, drives away darkness, and is pleasant and red.
From him is born the illastrious prince Vigrahapaladdva, full of majesty, eagerly gazed at by the good, always anxious to worship Smara's enemy, expert in battle even more than Hari. a god of death for the clan of his enemies, and a supporter of the four castes who plenses the world with the abundance of his bright fame.
When the huge elephants of kis army had dronk pure water in the water-abounding paster. land, and had roamed about at will in the sandal-forests at the foot of the Malaya range, they like clouds settled down on the ridges of the snowy mountain, baving cooled the trees witli showers of drizzling rain.'
Our Amgâchhi plate, then, clearly furnishes the following line of the so-called Pala kinys :1. Gopala I.
2. His son Dharmapala. (According to the Mungir plate he married a Rashịrakůta princess.10 And according to the Bhågalpar plate he conquered Indraraja of Mahôdaya or Kananj, and gave the sovereignty of Kanauj to Chakrayudha. See ante, Vol. XX. p. 188.)
3. His nephew Dévapala; (in his Mangir plate, which is dated in the year 33 of his reign, described as the son of Dharmapala.)
4. His nephew Vigrahapala I; (married, according to the Bhagalpur plate, Lajja, a Haihaya princess.)
5. His son Narayanapala. (His Bhagalpur plate is dated in the year 17 of bis reign).
6. His son Rajyapala; (married Bhagyadevi, a daughter of the Rashtrakūta Tuiga perhaps to be identified with Jagattuiiga II, who ruled in the first quarter of the 10th century A. D.)
7. His son Gopala II. 8. His son Vigrahapala II.
9. His son Mahipala. (He issued the Dinajpur copper-plate grant; and the Sarnith inscription, publislied ante, Vol. XVI. p. 140, furnishes for him the date V. 1083 = A. D. 1626).
10. His son Nayapala. (A Cambridge as. is dated in the 14th year and a Gayà inscription in the 15th year of his reign. See Bendall's Catulogur, p. 175, and Introduction; p. iii. and Sir A. Cunningham's Archirol. Surrey of India, Vol. III. Plate xxxvii.)
11. His son Vigrahapala III; (issued this Áugachbi copper plate grant which is sited in the 12th or 13th year of his reign).
As indicated above, this statement of the relationship of the l'ala king does not, so id: regards Dévapala, agree with ihe account furnished by the Mingir copper-plate, which distincidy makes that king the son of Dharmapala, and his qucen a Rashtrakuța princess. This differe I am unable to reconcile. For the rest, I have only to add that all these kings andgabtedly were Buddhists; and that the figures given under 9, 10, and 11, prove this Amgachhi plate of Vigrabapa la III. to have been issued after A. D. 1083.
. My translation very imperfectly expresses the meaning of this rerse. It may be sufficient to pay that the king i represented as the substratum of four colours (chiturtarrya), inasuch as he way yellow pila, red (rakta), groen (harita), and black (ala).
• vis., with the water emitted from their trunks.
20 Was she a daughter of Sri-Vallabha ? i.e., Govinda III. (who rule in the art quarter of the 9th centary A.1). The lithograph bas sri-Pararalasya duhitun.