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.
this grant from Vangipura (1.1) and addressed it to the villagers of Êlûra (1. 7). The donee was named Ganabarman (1. 9) and received twenty (in words and figures, 1. 11) nivartands of land, evidently near Eldra, together with a site for his house and a site for the houses of his servants.
The king is described as the performer of horse-sacrifices, the Salankåyana, the fervent Mahobvara, who is devoted to the feet of the lord (his) father, (and) who meditates at the feet of the holy Chitrarathasvamin.' Nearly the same epithets are applied in another set of plates to the Maharaja Vijaya-Nandivarman, who was the son of the Maharaja Chandavarman, issued his grant likewise from Vengipura, and addressed it to the inhabitants of a village in the district of Kudråhära. This family may be designated the salankayana Maharajas of Vêngipura. As Dévavarman's grant is in Prakrit, he was presumably an ancestor of Chandavarman's son Nandivarman, whose grant is in Sanskrit.
Vêngfpura, the capital of the Salankâyanas, has been identified with Pedda-Vêgi, a village near Ellore in the Godavari district. The correctness of this identification is confirmed by the existence of a small mound which, on a visit to Pedda-Végi in 1902, was shown to me by the villagers as the site of the ancient temple of Chitrarathasvamin, the family deity of the Salatkayana Maharajas. Other indications point to the same part of the country. The plates of Vijaya-Nandivarman were found in the neighbouring Kolleru lake, and Eldra, to whose inhabitants the subjoined edict was addressed, is no doubt the modern town of Eluru (Ellore), 7 miles from Pedda-Vêgi,
TEXT.
First Plate.
Om [1] 1 Siri-vijaya-Vengipura [1] Bhagavato 2 Chittarathasåmi-padang. 3 jjhâtassa bappabhattáraka-padabhattassa
Second Plate; First Side. 4 paramamahesgarassa salakayanaga 5 assamedhayajino 6 mahårája-siri-Vijaya-Devavammassa
Second Plate; Second Side. 7 vayaņena Elûre muļuda-pamukho 8 gâmo bhåpitavvo [] Etassa 9 Ba[bhura)-sagottassa Ganasammassa
Third Plate ; First Side. 10 sundara-padesamhi bhumi-niyattaņ&n[i] 11 visat 20 gharatthanam addhiya-manussâņam 12 duvaggåpa ya gharathanat parihara-rakkhanam
1 Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 175 ff.
This is the actual reading of the plates ; see above, Vol. VI. p. 816 and note 4.
South-Ind. Pal. p. 16, note 1; Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 43.
• Compare the quotation from the Madras Journal, Vol. XIX. (which is at prosent inacoessible to me), above, VOL. IV. p. 148, note 7. South-Ind. Pal. p. 135, note 1.
. From two sets of ink-impressione. Expressed by a symbol, which stands on the left margin of line 2.