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

Page 44

No. 5.] TWO KURUSPAL INSCRIPTIONS OF DHARANA-MAHADEVI. 31 31 . . . . . [नि]ग्रामः एतन्मध्ये यः कश्चिद्देयांतरोय .[क: भा]ग
युक्ताः . . . कः . . . 32 . . . [तिष्टति] स सर्वोदिसि [मध्यवर्ती तस्या[य]यमेव धर्मः । अचा.
[र्थे] साक्षिणः [महाप्रधानः क . . . . . 38 . . . [मददंनायकः [रा]मनः संधिविग्रहिनायकः [माम[व] साह [भ]धि
पतिराउत: [थ]स . . . 34 . . . . . [लिखिता] सर्वशास्त्राय॑पार[गतंदुषुतं]भट्टोपाध्याय] ...
श्रीसोमेश्वर] : . . . 35 मं यो रक्षति तस्यापि म[देव पुण्यं । वहुभि[]सुधा दत्ता राजभिः
सगरादिभिः ] [| यस्य य*]36 [स्य*] यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तदा [फोलमिति । [१२] यस्तु नाशयति
स [प्रया]गवाराणस्यादि . . . . 37 . . . . [ध] ब्राह्मणवधादि पातकं प्रा[]वंति [*] स्वद[त्तां] परदत्तां
वा यो हरेत वसुंधरां [*] [५][ष्ठिं वर्षस*]38 हस्राणि विष्ठायां जायते [क]मिः ॥ [१३] रण[4] वलरूपकारेण
लत्वीरितं । 39 . . . . . . . . . साधु . . . . . . .
No. 5.-TWO KURUSPAL INSORIPTIONS OF DHARANA-MAHADEVI
OF THE TIME OF SOMESVARADEVA.
Br RAI BAHADUR HIRA LAL, B.A.; NAGPUR. Kuruspal is a village about a mile off from Narayanpåll and 22 miles from Jagdalpur, the capital of the Bastar State. The name is probably & corruption of Křishộapura as Nariyappal is of Narayanapura. The place contains numerous rains, among which there is a tank called Bāni Tarai. The first of the subjoined inscriptions had been built upside down in one of the steps of this tank and was found by Rai Bahadur Diwan Baijnath who supplied me with 3 impressions together with one of another fragmentary stone found in a field. The tank slab probably belonged to a temple built in the middle of the tank, and dedicated apparently to the god Kimēśvara (Siva) referred to in the inscription. Both these inscriptions record the grant of land near Kalamba (now untraceable), and the gift was made in both cases by queen Dharana-Mahadevi, who was apparently the consorts of somésvaradava. This DharapaMahadevi is also mentioned in the Narayanpal inscription, apparently as a transferer of the land granted by Ghunda-Mahādēvi. It is worthy of note that some names of the recipients mentioned
See above, Vol. IX. page 161.
* The text was subsequently compared with fresh imprensions supplied by the Government Bpigraphist for India.
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