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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UDEPUR PRASASTI OF THE KINGS OF MALVA.
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short invocation in line 1, throughout metrical. It shows a few grammatical mistakes such as khadgam tirddhikritam yena (line 16) instead of khadga urdhrikrito yena and frequent faulty substitutions of sa for sa. Once in vibrastango (line 23) fa has been put for sa. Va throughout does duty for ba, as is the case in most medieval inscriptions from MALVA and Gujarat. A mistake in versification occurs in line 1, where the word álavdle has been treated like a compound and dla belongs to the first Pada of the verse. while the second begins with vále. No really good poet makes the pause fall in the middle of a simple word. There are also other passages which indicate that the author was not a poet of the first rank, but, as the Hindus would say, a madhyama kavi.
The state of the inscription makes it impossible to arrive at full certainty regarding its object. But it certainly contains a Prasasti. As Prasastis mostly record the erection or restoration of temples, and as the opening verses are addressed to siya, Parvati and Ganesa, it may be conjectured that it originally belonged to a Saiva temple, which was built either by Udayaditya, the last prince named in the fragment, or by one of his immediate successors.
However that may be, the value of the Prasasti remains very great, as it is the only document which gives an apparently complete enumeration of the earlier Para. mara rulers of MÁlva. Hitherto three imperfect lists were known, which occur in the Napasdhasánkacharita of Padmagupta, in the Nagpur Prasasti, and in the landgrants of Vakpati and Bhoja. A comparison of their contents with those of the document under consideration yields the following results :I. Udepur Prafarti. II. Navasthasdi kacharita. III. Nagpur Prasanti. IV. Land-grante. Paramára. Paramára.
Paramara.
Krishộa.
Upendra.
Upendra. Vairisimba I. Styaka I. Vakpati I.
VAkpati I. Vairisimba IL-Vajrata. Vairisimba. Harsba.
Styaks-Harshax Vadaje.
Vairisinha.
Vairisimbs.
Slyaks.
Siyaka.
VAk pati II,
Vakpati II.-Utpalarkja.
Muje.
VAkpati, or Amoghavar.
shs, or Prithivirallabha, or Brivallabha; A. D. 974-975, and 979.
Sindhuraja.
Sindhurdja."
Sindhurdja.
Sindhuraja, or Natashasanka, or Kumaran riyan
Bhoja. Udayaditya.
Bhoja. Udayaditya.
Bhoja. A. D. 1021-22.
• Ueber das Maraidasáikacharita, p. 86 (613).
Jour. Bo. Br. Roy.do. Soc. vol. I, p. 269; Zeitschrift für die Kunde der Morgenlandas, vol. VII, pp. 44. • Indian Antiquary, vol. VI, p. 48 ; and vol. XIV, pp. 169 ff.
* This name does not appear in either of the two publishede ditions. I owe it to Mr. J. F. Pleel, who possesses paper impression of the incription. Professor Kielhorn will give a new edition of the Pragati in the Indian Anti. quary.