Epigraphia Indica Vol 06

SR No.: 032560
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 482
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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No. 29.]
SARSAVNI PLATES OF BUDDHARAJA.
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I may further point out that in the wording of the formal part of the grants also the two inscriptions of Dadda Prasantaraga referred to above agree most closely with the inscription here edited. We find in them exactly the same list of officials to whom the order is addressed (sarván-êva raja-samanta-bhôgika-vishayapati-rashtragramamahattar-ddhikarik-adin); the same technical and other terms applied to the village granted (from @sha grámaḥ to putra-pautyánvaya-bhogyaḥ in lines 20-22 of the present inscription) ; with the exception of a single word, the same form of appeal to future rulers to preserve the grant, and, with the omission of one verse, the same benedictive and imprecatory verses, given in the same order. And one cannot help asking oneself how very different all this might have been, if the existing Gurjara grants of Saka-Samvat 400, 415 and 417 1 were really genuine documents.
Of the localities mentioned in this inscription, Ånandapura, from where the grant was issued, probably is the same Anandapura from where the Aling grant of Siladitya VII. Dhrûbhata of Valabhi of the year 447 was issued, and which has been identified by Dr. Fleet with the modern Anand, the chief town of the Anand subdivision of the Kaira district. And Bharukachchha, so often mentioned elsewhere, is the modern Broach. Débhaka, the place of residence of the donee, apparently is Dabka, a village in the Baroda State, about 8 miles west of Padra and 40 miles north of Broach. On the remaining localities Dr. Fleet, who at my request has kindly searched the sheets No. 22, S. E. (1883) and No. 36, S. W. (1897) of the Indian Atlas, of which copies were not accessible to me, has sent me the following note :- "The Gôrajja of this grant must be the Goraj' of sheet No. 36, in lat. 22° 20', long. 73° 32', in the Halol subdivision of the Pañch Maháls : it is shewn as a town or large village 11 miles on the south of HÅl8l, and is about 54 miles towards the north-east-by-north from Broach. Kumârivadaô must be the Kawarwara' of sheet No. 22, about 11 miles towards the west-south-west from Goraj,' and about 8 miles east-south-east from Baroda ; it is about 24 miles almost due east of Dabka.' And Brihannárika must be the Banaiya' of the same sheet, 41 miles on the south of Kawar'.
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TEXT.
First Plate ; Second Side. 1 Om svasti [ll] Vijaya-skandhávârâd=Anandapura-vasakâch=chharad-upagama
prasanna-gaganatala-vimala-vipuló vividha-purusharatna-guna2 kirapa-nikar-avabhåsitê mahasa[t]tv-8pågraya-durllanghê gambhiryyavati sthity.
annpålana-parê mahôdadh&v=iva Kata[chch]u.6 3 riņâm-anvayê sakala-jana-manôharaya c handrikay=êva karty[&] bhuvanam
avabh&sayann=8 janmana évs Pasupati-samaśra4 ya-parak-kalanka-dôsha-rahitah-kula-kumudavana-lakshmi-vibôdhanas-chandramå iva
sri-Krishnarajó yas=samiraya-viso5 sha-lôbhád=iva sakalair=&bhigamikaireitarais=cha guņair=upêtaḥ sari panna-prakriti
mandal yathavad-atmany-Ahita-sakti6 siddhir-yyêna cha ruchira-vansa-76ôbhing niyatam=askhalita-dana-prasaréna prathita
bala-garimņa vanavarana-yutha7 pên=&v=&višankam vicharatá vana-rajaya iv-dvanamite digo yasya cha sastram=
Spanna-tråņaya vigrahah-par-&8 bhimâna-bhangâya fikshitam vinayâya vibhav-&rijana pradanaya pradanam
dharmmâya dharmmas=brêy ô-våptayê tasya putraḥ
1 See my List of Northern Inger. Nos. 347-849.
See Gupta Incor. p. 173. * See the Gazetteer of the Bombay Pres. Vol. VII. p. 542. • Prom impressions supplied by Dr. Hultzsch.
. Expressed by a symbol. • The consonants of the akshara chchu are not clear in the impressions, but I do not think that the akshara can be read differently.
1 Bead - la.