Epigraphia Indica Vol 01

SR No.: 032555
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1893
Total Pages: 528
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
On account of his manliness not to be insulted, endowed with fame which spread to the ends of the broad regions, in munificence like Karna, and not conversant with hurtful or deceitful speech, the illustrious Sekkala at once showed his greatness both by his benevolence and in battle, was difficult of approach for the host of enemies, and ... ...(?).
[The next verse also refers to Sekkala (whose name is spelt here Sekkalla), who appears to be described as a boat for crossing the ocean of royal government. But the verse is incomplete, and I am unable to derive from the words actually remaining any connected meaning.)
(16.) His younger brother, too, endowed with beauty, propriety of conduct, generosity, and activity, and already in youth of noble conduct, is famous as the illustrious Kokkalla.
He who on worthy recipients incessantly bestowed ........ food, hundreds of excellent dresses, horses, couches, and seats, dwelling-places accompanied by umbrellas and shoes, and great donations of grain, that was here the illustrious Kokkala, a youth (?) . . . . . engaged in works of piety.
Kokkala caused to be built a wonderful town which, ....... furnished with big archways of great value, (and) with dwellings high like mountain-peaks, (and) with highly decorated lofty shining great gates, resembled the city of Indra.
(19.) Desirous of crossing the deep ocean ....., he caused to be erected this (temple, high like ?) the spotless great peaks of the mountain of snow, the lofty golden dome of which, because it is in contact with the fierce splendour of the sun, became a spotless canopy for the glorious lord Vaidyanatha.
[The next verse, which is incomplete, appears to describe certain buildings close to the temple, which Kokkala erected for pious Brahmans).
Here he settled a faultless very learned crowd of twice-born who knew the Vedas ..... (and) delighted in the six duties (enjoined on Brahmans).
(21.) The creeper of his good fame, the sprouts of which are shining with prosperity produced by the sprinkling of his boundless discernment, (and) ...... which nourishes (like groups of birds) crowds of twice-born, (and) is beautified, as by flowers, by good conduct, rising above the lines of princes (as above mountains), ascends from the wide round basin of the earth up into the universe, as if it were an arbour.
The year 1058, on the full-moon day of Karttika. By the illustrious Kokkala.
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THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM IMAGES IN THE JAINA TEMPLES.
VI. This incomplete inscription is in a single line, 57" long. The size of the letters is about #". The characters are Nagart, and the language is Sanskrit. The inscription contains merely the words: “The Sreshthin, the illustrious Påạidhara, in the Grahapati family."
The Grahapati family, mentioned here and in the two following inscriptions, is also mentioned in line 8 of the preceding inscription of Kokkala, No. V.