Epigraphia Indica Vol 10

SR No.: 032564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, V Venkayya
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1909
Total Pages: 450
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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MACHALISHAHR COPPER-PLATE OF HARISCHANDRADEVA.
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49 being connected with manpers of respect 50 and honor, Between the two countries 51 smoke and dust shall not be seen, sudden 52 hostility and the name of enmity shall not be heard of. 53 There shall be no fear and anxiety, hither, 54 ) on account of frontier. guards. 55 Everywhere praise spreading
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dwelling, the kindness of happiness 57. . . . . . . up to 10,000. The glorious 58 sounds shall reach the sun and moon, 59 and cover all]. The Tibetans shall be happy in Tibet. 60 The Chinaman shall be attached to the great realm of happiness in China. 61 This is of great importance, and 62 that it may never be changed, the three 63 gods, the sugast heaven, 64 sun, moon, the planets and the stars, are asked to witness it. 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66... Having killed the animals, and sworn 67 an oath, it was connected with importance. 68 If any one do not according to this importance, or 69 destroy it, Tibetan or Chinese, whoever first commit 70 such crime and sin, in response according to the trick committed, 71 . . . . . . . (importance ?) . . . . . . . . . 72. . . . by the groat ministers of both, Tibet and China, 73 swearing an oath, important . . . . . . . 74. . ..... writing. Both the great kings 75 confirm it by seal, the ministers 76 . . . . . . . . . . .. and the other ones . . . . . 77 writing in a (hand ?) letter, important. . . . . . . 78. . . was deposited at . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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No. 21.- MACHHLISHAHR COPPER-PLATE OF HARISCHANDRADEVA OF
KANAUJ; [VIKRAMA-]SAMVAT 1253.
BY PANDIT HIRANANDA, M.A.; LAHORE. This is a single plate, which measures 13" wide by 18" long, and was found together with the seal" in village Kotwa, parganah Ghiswi, tahsil Macbhlisbahr, on the east side of the unmetalled road running from Machhliahabr to Janghai," when excavations were carried on as famine relief work in the Jaunpur District of the United Provinces. In Jandary last, Mr. C. A. C. Streatfield, 1.C.S., presented it to the Provincial Museum at Lucknow, where it is now deposited. The Carator of the Museum informs me that he received it "in & bent and twisted condition in conseqaence of which it had to be flattened." It is broken about the middle and the writing which it bears is also considerably damaged.
The inscription which is engraved only on one side of the plate comprises 34 lines written in the Sanskrit language and the Nagari script. The size of the letters is between 1 and As regards orthography, it is enough to state that no distinction is made between the signs for band and that the dontal and palatal sibilants are used indiscriminately,