Epigraphia Indica Vol 09

SR No.: 032563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: E Hultzsch, Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 498
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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in cription of Kakkuka in the Matd-ki-tal. Thus, Travant is the same as Tamani there, and also ooours in this unaltered form in verse 18 of the Jodhpur insoription of Bauka. Similarly, Valla is mentioned in both those inscriptions. Mada is given in the Math-ki-adi inscription in conjunction with Maru (Maru-Mada). Jésalmêr is still called Mads, and Mara proper can only be the Sheo. Mallant and Picbpadra districts of the Jodhpur State. Årys and Gurjaratrs are doubtless the Ajja and Gojjaratta of the Mata-ki-sál inscription. Årys is unidentifiable, but is perhaps the same as that mentioned in Varahamihira's Brihat-sanhitd, Cap. V, v. 42. Gurjaratra, as has been shown by me elsewhere, comprised the distriots of Did wind and Par. batear of the Jedhpur Stato. Lata, as was also pointed out by me, embraced about this time the larger portion of the present Gujarat of the Bombay Presidency.' Parvata, which is apparently said to be in Lâta, is unknown to me. Does Parvata, however, here simply mean a mountain and refer to some such inroad of Kakkuka as that mentioned in the expression gahiúna gôhandir girimms in verge 17 of the Mátá-ki-sál record ? Or perhaps Parvata may be taken to be a distinct country, and connected with the Parvatiyas of the Brihat-san hita, Cap. XVII. v. 16.
Verse 4 of our inscription tells us that Kakkuks erected two columns, one at Robimsaka and the other at Maddodara. Exaotly the same information is conveyed by verse 21 of the Mats-ki-sdl record, excepting that for Rohimsaks we have there Rohimsakllpa. Rəhimsaka is andoubtedly the same as this Rəhimsakûpa or the Rəhimaakapaka of our inscription No. 2, God is to be identified with Ghatiyal. Maddodara, it can scarcely be seriously doubted, is Mapdôr, five miles north of Jodhpur, which is locally believed to have been a seat of Pratîhåra power and is full of very ancient ruins, and where a fragment of a Pratihåra inscription was discovered by me last season. The next verne informs us that the column on wbich the inscription has been incised was erected by Kakkuka. Precisely the same information is given by verse 21 of the Mata-ki-sál inscription. Then follows the date Samvat 918 Chaitra-fudi budhe Hasta-nakshatre, the same as that mentioned in the latter inscription. And further we are told that hero a market was established, and the village peopled with mahájana, i.e. big folk. The very same thing is allnded to in verse 20 of the Mátá-ki-odl record. The inscription really ends here so far as the parport of it is concerned, but a verse follows which has something of the character of subhashita. Its chief interest, however, lies in the fact that it was composed by Brt-Kakkuks himself, as the line in prose at the end informs us.
Insoription No. II contains 11 lines of writing covering a space of 1' 5" high by 1' 23" broad. Excepting the opening words or siddhih, it is in verse up to 1. 9, and the rest in prose. The palmography and orthography do not call for any remarks other than those made in connection with inscription No. I. The first verse invokes the blessings of Vinayaka (Gapapati) who, we are told, was placed on the column to ensure prosperity, and, as & matter of fact, the
1 Journ. Bo. 4o. Soc. Vol. XXI., pp. 414-416.
Ibid., pp. 418-414. Another ancient name of Mandor is Mindavyapun mentioned in verse 10 of the Jodhpur inscription of the Pratthara Banks. In the Progress Report of the Archeological Survey of India, Western Circle, for the your ending 81st March 1907, p. 80, I have mld that though this inscription stone was found in the city wall of Jodhpur, it must originally have been at Mandor, M all stones for the fortification of the fort had been brought from the latter place. This conclusion is confirmed by the first pdda of the vere just referred to, which is Mdodavyapura durgformis. The word armis shown that the stone originally ww at Mandavyapurs, la Mapdor. Mapdavyapars, Agnio, in spoken of both as a city and fort, and Mapdor remained so till the prince Jodhi removed his capital from there to Jodhpur. Even to this day some of the portions of the ramparts of Mapdor have been preserved. As the verte in question states that certain Pratthans brother princes erected ramparts round Mindavyapura fort, It la plain that it was in the possosion of the feudatory Prathan princes. This is also cortoborated by the fact mentioned in the text that last season I found a part of a stone inscription belonging to the Prattham. In it the name of Kakks could be distinctly read, and some reference to his son made therein could also be traced. Bat who that non was whether Kakkuka or Baubs- is not certain. The name Mandaryapura 000nns even to late
V. E. 1819 in the Bandhe bill inscription of Chichigadêra (above, Vol. IX., p. 78, 1. 86).