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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
. [VOL. Ix.
Nandivardhaa must have been a place of great importance before it gave its name to the district. I hold that this was founded by a successor of Jayavardhana II, who removed the capital from Srivardhanapura, also named after a king of the same line, to the place to which he gave bis own name. The Rashtraktas rose in power on this side in the eighth century, and it is probably they who displaced the Sailavamsa dynasty of the Vindhya mountains. Nandivardhana or Nagardhana is about 100 miles from Ragholi, and both were included in the same district about a century ago. It may also be stated that, so far as I have been able to find, there are no other villages ending in vardhana in Balaghat or any of the surrounding districts, and the name is so peculiarly different from those of other villages in the locality that it may almost be called unique; for these reasons the location of Srivardhanapara round about Nandivardhana or Ramtek carries at least a certain probability with it.
TEXT.
Seal. 1 श्रीजयव2 ईनदेवस्य [*]
First Plate. 1 'पों स्वस्ति श्रोवईनपुरात् [*] 'कैलासाचलतुङ्गशृङ्ग2 विपुलद्रोणोजयेशप्रभुः प्रख्यातो भुवि शैलवं3 पतिलक: श्री - -वईनो यो नृपः । तत्पुत्रः पृथव4 ईनो निजभुजव्याकष्टखगाः] मुया देशं गौरमास5 साद सहसा विक्रान्तिभियंस्ततः ॥ [१] तथप्रभवो 6 व्यनीजनदलं सौवईनो भूपतिर्भूचक्रक्र7 मलब्धविक्रमयशः' पुत्रत्रयं त्वौरसं । ते. 8 °षामुजितवैरिदारणपटं पौण्डाधिपं झाप9 तिं हत्वैको विषयं तमेव सकलं जग्राह शौ10 र्यान्वित: ॥ [२] ताभ्यामन्यतमो विहत्य सहसा द. 11 पोडतं दारुणं काशिं काशिनराधिपं सित
Second Plate; First Side. 12 गुणो जग्राह जेता हिषां । तत्पुत्रो जयवईने18 ति वचसा ख्यातो वरो भूभृतां विन्ध्ये विन्ध्यनरेशमेव
It io noticeable that all names of this line end in vardhana. ? From the original plates. I am indebted to Prof. Hultzsch for a few corrections in my reading
Metre: Sardalavikridita; also of the two next verses. • Read नवंश.
There are two letters here which appear to have been struck off by the engraver. The metre also shows that they were redundant. Read पुरा. - Read 'ल .
• Read "मूबित.