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.
L 60.
let sfera[at]wufet frorgara: 224 सूबसन्चनपुबेच पासिंहन शिखिना। suurya (wafer]aifa 284, संवत् १९११ वर्षे ज्येष्ठ शदि १५ वुधदिने ॥छ॥ -॥-॥ 3 [*] 90 UI
V.-RATNAPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF JAJALLADEVA,
OF THE (CHEDI) YEAR 866.
BY PROP. F. KIELHORN, Ph.D., O.I.E., GÖTTINGEN. This inscription is on a reddish-brown stone which was found at Ratnapur, in the Central Provinces, and is now in the Nagpur Museum.
The inscription consists of 31 lines. The writing originally covered a space of about 2' 23" broad by 2' 2" high. At present, a small portion of the upper proper left corner and a large portion of the lower right corner of the stone are broken away, so that from 4 to 9 akshards are missing at the end of the first five lines, and from 2 to about 25 aksharas at the beginning of the last thirteer lines. Small portions of the stone appear to have broken away also at the upper right and lower left corners, and by the peeling off of the surface some aksharas have become illegible, especially in the last three lines of the inscription, as will appear from my transcript of the text.The size of the letters generally varies from to $", and is somewliat legs in the five or six bottom lines. The characters are Devanagart. The language is Sanskrit, and, except for the introductory blessing and the date at the end, the inscription is in verse. The verses are numbered, and their total number is 34. The names of the composer, of the writer, and of the engraver appear to have been given in the concluding verses, but they are now illegible.--In respect of orthography we have to note the very frequent employment of the dental for the palatal sibilant (in saphari, line 1; sirasi, line 2; vansé, line 4; visda, lines 4 and 16: satru, line 6; kósam, line 7; 86bhan, line 9; srutá, line 13; saurya, lines 14 twice, 23, and 26 ; atambu, line 19; sóchih, line 19; Sómésvaró, line 20; sir 6, line 23: agésham, line 24; edsanan, line 28; adsvatam, line 28; 8dstra, line 29; prasasti, lines 80 twice, and 31); the employment of the palatal for the dental sibilant in tamiéra, line 9, bitan, line 19, and barasah, line 26; and the non-observance of the rules of Saindhi in samabhavat bri-, line 3, ásit téshdms=cha, line 6, and mitravat-friya, line 20. The consonant 6 is denoted by the sign for o everywhere except in abdhi, line 18, where the proper sign for 6 has been employed.
The inscription refers itself to the reign of a prince Jajalladeva of Ratnapura. distant descendant of the Oh di ruler Kokalla; and it is dated in the year 866, expressed by decimal figures only, on the 9th day of the bright half of Margasiraha, on Ravi or Sunday. And the inscription records (verses 27-81) certain religious bene. factions, the establishment of a monastery for ascetics, the making of a garden and of a lake, probably also the foundation of, or the establishment of a temple at, Jajallapura, and the grant of the village of Sirult, and of Arjunakoņasaraņa (P), &c., by the prince Jájalladéra. Elsewhere I have tried to show that the epoch of the Chedi era is A.D. 248-49, and assuming the date of the present inscription to be recorded in that era, I
" Metre of terses 115-116, Anushtabh.