Epigraphia Indica Vol 14

SR No.: 032568
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sten Konow, F W Thomas
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1917
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIV.
No. 27.-PURLE PLATES OF INDRAVARMAN: THE (GANGA] YEAR 149.
By G. RAMADAS, B.A. The subjoined plates were secured by me from & cultivator in Purlo, & village near Palakonda. It was stated that they were discovered in a pot exposed to view in a crumbling wall on the bank of the river opposite to where Parle lies.
They are three in number, each measuriug 640" by 21". The margins of the inscribed inner side of the first and the third plates and both sides of the second plate are raised for the protection of the writing, which is in a good state of preservation, except in two places in 11. 12 and 14. The plates are strung on a ring, which was ancut when they came into my hands. It is " thick and 3" in diameter; its two euds are secured under an oval seal (t" by l' in diameter), which bears on a countersunk surface an impression which indistinctly appears to be a bull standing to the proper right.
The language is correct Sanskrit, and the composition closely resembles that of the Chicacole plates of Indravarman.
The characters resemble those of the Chicacole plates of Devendravarman, son of Gunārņava.l. The slight difference may be due to the style or the skill of the engraver.
Orthography.-The Upadhmāniya is invariably expressed by a sign representing the Telugu intensive re, e.g. in 11. 5, 10, 19, 20, 21. The Jihvamüliya is represented by a sign indicating m, e.g. in II. 16 and 20. Consonants following rare doubled, e.g. in 11. 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 22, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31. The following are exceptions :-in line 10 ('chandrarkao); 11. 16 and 18 (Orjunao). Consonante preceding are not doubled. Of palmograpbic interest is the vowel letter 2 (1. 18), inasmuch as it is in this plate that it is first found.
The plates record the grant of the village Bhukkukura in the Kuraka rashtra to Bhavadattagarman, who w88 & student of Rig-Vēda, well-versed in Vēdas and Vēdārgas, an inbabitant of Tirilinga, and who belonged to the Kausika gotra.
The donor of the grant was the Ganga king Indravarman, son of Danarnava. As the prasasti of the grant is the same as that of the Chicacole grant of Indravarman above referred to, no comment is required.
The grant was made on the full-moon day of Kārttiks and was engraved on the 20th day of Pushya in the year 140 of the prospering victorious reign. This refers to the Ganga era, generally mentioned in the Balinga grants. This grant, therefore, appears to be three years posterior to that of the Chicacole plates of Indravarman,& dated 146. This son of Dānārņava was, probably, the grandson and successor of the Indravarman of the Chicacole plates.
The order for the grant was issued by the Mahamahattara sivagarman, who may have been the son of the Mahāmahattara Gaurišarman of the grant of Indravarman, dated 128 ; and father of Mahattara Savaranandisarman of the Chicacole grant of Gunārnava's son Devendravarman.*
The writer of the grant was Khandichandra, son of Aditya-Bhögiks. The Chioscole grant of Gaņārnava's son Dévendravarman is said to have been engraved by Sarvachandra, the
Archeological Survey of Southern India, Vol. 10, Tamil and Sanskrit Insoriptions, by J. Burgeau, Part III, No. 17, pp. 161 sqq.
Ep. Ind., Vol. III, No. 21, p. 180.
Archwological Survey of Southern India, Vol. IV, Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions, by Jas. Bargena, Part III, No. 18, pp. 164 899.
• Bp. Ind., Vol. III, No. 21, 181.