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.
in this month of Märgasirsha, on the thirteenth day of the dark (fortnight), on Thursday, in the Maitra (Anuradha) nakshatra, while the sun was) in Dhanus, in the Ghata lagna ;
(L. 41.) This Samastabhuvandsraya, the glorious Vijayaditya (VI.), the Mahdrajadhiraja Paramédvara, the very pious Ammardja (II.) thus commands all the ryots, headed by the Rashtrakatas, inhabiting the distriot (vishaya) of Kamma-nându-Lords!
(V. 15.) Even one possessed of thousands of mouths (would be unable to count the great achievements of that valiant Pandaranga, of spotless fame, who burnt Kiranapura, the residence of Krishṇaraja, as Mahesa (Siva) (burnt) Tripura.
(L. 44.) His son (was) Niravadyadhavala, whose forehead was decorated with the fillet of Kafakarája. His son (was) the Kafakadhipati Vijayaditya.
Verse (16.) His son (was) Durgaraja, whose sword always (served) only for the protection of the fortune of the Chalukyas, and whose renowned family? (served) for the support of the excellent great country (mandala) called Vengl.
(V. 17.) There is on the southern side of Dharmapuri a very charming excellent temple of Jina (Jinalaya) founded by him, an abode of merit, and marked with the anspicious name of Katakabharaṇa.
(V. 18.) (There was) the lord of ascetics Jinanandin, who resembled the Ganadharse, belonged to the pure and worthy Nandi-gachchha (and) was the chief lord of the Kotimaduva(P)-gans, which is to be worshipped (as belonging to the holy Y&paniya-samgha.
(V. 19.) His first disciple was a chief of ascetics called Div[6]kara, renowned on earth, a store of highest knowledge (and) high-souled, who resembled the Jinas themselves by great virtues.
(V. 20.) His disciple was the wise ascetic Srimandiradeva, & store of great austerities, whom people desire as if he were possessed of the power of pratiharya.
(L. 53.) To the Katakabharana-Jinalaya superintended by him there was given, at the request of the Katakarája, for the cost of repairs of breaks and cracks, offerings, worship, etc., and of an alms-house (sattra), on the occasion of the winter solstice (uttarayana), the small village named Maliyapandi, with exemption from all taxes, with libations of water.
(L. 56.) The boundaries of this village (are): in the east Mufjuny[u]ru; in the south Yinimili; in the west Kalvakuru ; in the north Dharmavuramu.
(L. 57.) The boundaries of the fields of this village Care): in the east the Gollani-guntha (pond); in the south-east the Raviya-periya-cheruvu (tank); in the south a demarcation stone ; in the south-west also a demarcation stone; in the west Malkaparru and the Korabəya-tataka (tank); in the north-west also a demarcation stone; in the north the Duba-cheruvu (tank); in the north-east the boundary ) also the boundary of the Ev voka-chøna (field) in Kalvakuru.
No. 7.--PLATES OF VIJAYA-DEVAVARMAN.
BY PROFESSOR E. HULTZSCH, PH.D.; HALLE (SAALE). Two sets of excellent ink-impressions of this grant were sent to me by Rai Bahadur V. Venksyys, who had received the original plates from the Collector of the Kistna district.
The word cashfa means also cane;' see Nellore District Inscriptions, p. 173, note 6.
• It is not quite impossible that punydruha is a mistake for Pusadga-; compare the Pannigavrikabamálagapa of the Nandisamghs, above, Vol. IV. p. 838.
According to Buddhist works, prdtidrya or pratihdrys means jugglery, working minelow;' see the St. Petersburg Dictionary.