Epigraphia Indica Vol 02

SR No.: 032556
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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INSCRIPTIONS FROM NORTHERN GUJARAT.
chiefs of Sarotra (1) Arajunaji, who ruled in Samvat 1678, and (2) his son Haradaaji, who ruled in Samvat 1685 and 1689. No. xxvii makes us acquainted with a Maharana Khetala (?) who held the village of Sunaka, the modern Sonak, in Samvat 1356.
2.- We obtain the following information regarding the spiritual heads of the Tapâgachchha:-No. xxix tells us that Hiravijaya was Bhaṭṭâraka in Samvat 1642. This inscription mentions also Vijayasena, who succeeded him (see Klatt, Ind. Ant., vol. XI, p. 256). Vijayadeva, the successor of the latter, is alluded to six times in the inscriptions Nos. xx-xxiii, xxv, and xxvi, which are all dated in the year Samvat 1689; while his appointed successor Vijayasimha is mentioned once (inscription xx). Inscription No. ii makes us acquainted with a Guru of the Mahideś variya Matha called Jiraja, ie. probably Jerája or Jayaraja.
No. I.'
11. [च] १२५ [८] वर्ष [च] पिन [द] १५ सोमे
2. ॥ [व] ज्ञातीय श्रे [ष्ठ] - - [] सुत
3. समयवेन मूर्ति कारापित]
TRANSLATION.
In the year Sam. 1358, on the 15th (day) of the dark half of Âśvina, a Monday, a figure was caused to be made by the Śreshthin Samayaka, son of . . . of the Pragvata gotra.
L. 1. [ श्री] महिदेश्वरीयमठाधिप2. जिराजगुरु श्रीध्यान] गणाचार्य
3. स्य ॥
No. II.3
25
TRANSLATION.
(The image) of the venerable Dhyânaganacharya, the guru Jirâja, the lord of the Mahideśvariya monastery.
No. III.*
L. 1. ओं ॥ श्रावण सुदि १५ चवण ज्येष्ट वदि
८ जन्मा । फागुण [श्रा]
2. सुदि १२ दिक्खा । फागुण वदि १३ नाणं । we afegit enfa
TRANSLATION.
Hail! The conception (chyavana) on the 15th (day) of the bright half of Sravana; birth on the 8th (day) of the dark half of Jyeshtha; consecration (diksha) on the 12th
At Bhilri: on the base of an image in the Jaina temple. Read af: arfar.
At Bhilri: on the base of an image in Mahadeva's temple. At Bhilri: in an old well outside the village.