Epigraphia Indica Vol 23

SR No.: 032577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1935
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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No. 12.) INDIAN MUSEUM PLATES OF GANGA DEVENDRAVARMAN : YEAR 308.73
47 stu bhava) ..... 'Varāhavarttanyam | Navagramas-chatus-sim-iva48 chchhinnas-sa-jala-sthalas=sarvva-pidā-vivarjjitam=ā-chandr-arkka49 kshiti-sama-kālam (yāvan)-mātā-pitror=ātmanas-cha punya-yaső-bhivriddha50 yē | sasi-nanda-nidhi-[śā]k-āvdēm
Āsādha-māsa-prathama-paksha-sa
Fourth Plate ; Second Side. 51 ptamyāṁ Sõma-vāré vēsyā-vams-odbhavaḥ Mallapa-näyakas-tasya puttraḥ 52 Bhimana-näyakas-tasya bhāryy. Prolakavă | tayoḥ putrāya | Gokana? 53 nāyakāya chira-kālam-ārādhya 8va-paursha-paritoshitāya datta itil
No. 12.-INDIAN MUSEUM PLATES OF GANGA DEVENDRAVARMAN :
THE YEAR 308. BY B. Ca. CHHABRA, M.A., M.O.L., Pa.D. (LUGD.), OOTACAMUND. The charter under examination is one of the nine sets of copper-plates that were acquired, in the year 1935, by Mr. N. G. Majumdar, Superintendent, Archeological Section, Indian Museum, Calcutta, through Mr. Satyanarayan Rajguru of Parlakimedi, District Ganjam. Regarding its find-spot no definite information is available. Mr. Rajguru, however, informs me that a cultivator, while digging a field in a village of the Badakhimedi Estate of Ganjām, came upon an earthen pot containing some ten sets of copper-plates of which the present record is one. Inkimpressions of these plates were kindly supplied to me by Mr. Majumder with whose permission I edit them here.
These are thres copper-plates, each measuring 57" x 3". They were strung on a ring, about 3 inches in diameter, fixed to a circular seal. The seal, 14" in diameter, is intact and bears the figures in high relief of a seated bull, facing the proper left, a crescent and a star above it and a blown lotus below. The plates weigh 112 tolas, while the ring and the seal together weigh 14 iolas. The plates have flat rims. The writing on them has undergone a slight damage, especially on the obverse of the second plate. There are 38 lines of writing in all, the first and the last faces bearing 7 each and the remaining three 8 each. All the three plates are inscribed on both the sides, the charter ending on the obverse of the third plate. On the reverse of this last appear two different writings, one upon the other, but neither seems to be relevant to the present grant. The three lines of writing on the lower portion, the first consisting of four aksharas only and the
1 The syllables within the brackets are indistinct. Probably the engraver, through mistake, repeated the phrase Viditamastu bhavatan, and then tried to cancel it by rubbing off the letters.
* The portion of the plate before this letter is very damaged, and there might have been two or three letters. The last one, immediately preceding Va, seems to be tra. There might be the word atra.
• These three letters are very indistinct, as this portinn of the plate is very damaged. • The letter kd is very indistinct. Read - Sak-abdē. Read Ashadha.
. Read vasya or Vailya. + There is a dot over ka, but I doubt whether it was intended for anusvira, as this is usually represented in this plate by a circle to the right of the consonant.