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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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his parents. The date of this record is Samvat 1108 Märgasira sudi 15, Soma-dina.1 On this day the Chandella king Devavarmadēva, Lord of Kaliñjara, meditating on the feet of Vijayapaladeva who meditated on the feet of Vidyadharadeva, offered water to the names of his ancestors, worshipped Sulapani or Siva and gave the village Bhutapallika, situated on the bank of the Yamuna river in the vishaya of Nava-rashtra-mandala, to Pandita Kikkana of the Krishnatreya-götra with 3 pravaras whose ancestors had emigrated from Kumbhatibhatagrama. This Brahmana was ever ready to expound the Vedas, the Vedangas, Itihasa, the Puranas and Mimämsä and was devoted to shat-karma (shat-karm-abhirata), the prominent mention of which leads me to infer that he practised Yoga, which is more awe-inspiring than the ordinary six duties of a Brahmana.
The localities mentioned in this record have not yet been identified, excepting Kälinjara, whence the record was issued, and the Yamuna river on whose bank the village of Bhuta pallika was situated. Both of them, viz., the fort of Kaliñjara and the river Yamuna or Jumnā are too well known to require identification. The mention of the latter indicates sufficiently the locality of the village and the district in which it was included. Děvavarmadeva was the 12th king of the Chandella dynasty and, if this record shows anything in regard to his capital and extent of his dominions, it indicates that he lived in the Kälinjara fort and that his rāj ex. tended at least up to the Jumnă in the north. But almost the same conclusion is derivable from his other record referred to before and those of his predecessors, an account of which has been given by the late Dr. V. A. Smith in his exhaustive essay on the history and coinage of the Chandella dynasty. But it may be noted here that in his zeal to show the great antiquity of the Chandella dynasty and its kingdom Jejakabhukti-the designation was later on changed to Jajhauti and taken as given after Jejaka or Jayasakti, the third king of the line-he has fallen into a blunder, to which enthusiasts, howsoever great, are sometimes liable. In his article he has attempted to prove that Chih-chi-t'o, visited and described by Yuan Chwang in 641 or 642 A.D., was no other than Jijhoti. This would mean that the country was named after a king, who was born about 200 years later, as according to him Jejaka ascended the throne about 860 A.D.
TEXT.
परममहारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेसर
1. चौं नमः faara 1 arfer श्रीविद्याधर देव: (व) पादानुध्यातः (त) परमभट्टा
2 महाराजाधिराजपरमेख (मा) र : (र) चोमविजयपालदेव: (व) पादानु (नु) ध्यातः (त) पर, मभट्टारक महाराजाधिराज
3 परमे व (ख) र (र) श्रीकालंजर । धिवत्तिः (ति) श्रोमहेववर्मा देवः (व) पादानां
महो(चा)
प्रवर्धमान कल्याणविजयराज्ये स
This date is irregular. According to Swamikannu Pillai's Indian Ephemeris, V. 8. 1108, Märgasira i, 15 fell on Wednesday, the 20th November of A.D. 1051, with no lunar eclipse on that date. The date in V, 8, 1109 would correspond to Tuesday, the 8th December, A.D. 1052, when there was a lunar eclipse.
The six hatha-yoga practices are:
Dhautir-basti tatha neti nauliki trätakas tatha |
kapala-bhati ch-aitani shal-karmmäni samachar ||
See Apte's Sanskrit Dictionary under shat-karman.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XXXVII, pp. 114 .
Ibad, D. 131. The kingdom was known as Jajahati (Jajahöti, Jijhoti),
• Ibid., p. 127.