Epigraphia Indica Vol 20

SR No.: 032574
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 188
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 40 MB

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and Vira-Vikramadeva..............granted at the request of the Fifty Families as samoaramasya, with the pouring of water and with immunity from all claims, twelve mattar of land field by the pole (measuring) twenty-seven (?) spans, on the north of the land of god Jagatesvara, to god Telligötvara of Erarbarage, the fortunate town existing from times immemorial (anādi-pattana), and at the request of Mumjaya-Sahani, one mattar of paddy land to the west...........
No. 13.-DABOK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF DHAVALAPPADEVA; (HARSHA-)
SAMVAT 207.
BY
R.R. HALDER, RAJPUTANA MUSEUM, AJMER. This inscription was found engraved op a large stone lying in a field at the village of Dabok, eight miles to the east of Udaipur in Mewar. It was removed to the Udaipur Museum by Rai Babadur Gaurishankar H. Ojha, and I edit it from the ink-impression, which he so kindly placed at my disposal. Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar has noticed it in this journal.
The record contains fifteen lines of writing covering & space of about 3 ft. 6 ins. x 1 ft. 7 ins. The average size of the letters is in. The characters belong to the northern class of alphabets, commonly known as Kutila lipi. They are almost similar to the Jodhpur Inscription of Pratibâra Bäuka. Paleographically, the inscription is important, as the date given in it contains the letter-symbol of 200, which is worth noting. The language is incorrect Sanskrit and, ex. cepting the two imprecatory verses, the whole record is in prose. In respect of orthography, the following points may be noted-consonants are doubled after , as in Durggadēvyā (1. 4), -märgga (1.9), etc.; and tefore , as in puttra (1.2), kshettraṁ (1.5), etc. ; & is written for é, as in svarasya and säradya (1.4), and for sh, as in sèd hyö- (1. 13), -ațavisv=d. (1. 14), etc.; the anusvāra is used forn in asmin- (1. 1), -chandrārkka- (1.11), etc., and is redundant in -uridhyartham (1. 11), and haram- (1. 15); m is written for v in nimi (1. 3), etc.; rules of sandhi are, as a rule, violated in almost all the lines. The upadhmaniya is used in punar=ādadita (1. 14). Other mistakes and irregularities are pointed out in the footnotes accompanying the text.
The inscription is of the time of Sri-Dhavalappadēva, who, as shown by the titles Parama. bhaffäraka, Maharājādhirāja, Paraměsvara, appears to have been a paramount chief. The record is dated in the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada of the Samvat 207. The object of the inscription is to record the grant of some fields and, probably, shops, too, by Vaidya Giyaka, son of Nāgadāman, & resident of Dhavagartā (the present town of Dhor in the Jahazpur district of the Udaipur State) to the temples of the god Mahamahēsvara and the goddess Durgă called Chattavasini.
As the era to which the year belongs has not been specified, the date cannot be ascertained with certainty. The characters, however, are of a period not earlier than the 8th or 9th century A. D. In consideration of this fact, the date can be referred to the Harsha era, in which several other inscriptions of Rajputāna are dated. In that case the date would correspond to Monday, the 8th August A.D. 813. The family to which Dhavalappadēva belonged is not mentioned in this inscription. From the Dhanop inscription of Chachcha, dated Samvat 1063
1 The impresion is not very cloar. Consequently the reading is not free from doubt in several places. . Above Vol. XII, p. 11. . Abovo Vol. XVIII, pp. 87 ff. Soo Annual Reports of the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer, for 1916-17 and 1019-20, 4(6) L Ind. Ant., Vol. XL, D.174