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. 34.] SONE-EAST-BANK COPPER PLATE OF INDRADEVA AND UDAYARAJA. 227
prediction that the man who had captured Bihar would invade Nadia" next year ", whereupon the king Rai Lakhmaniya (=Lakshmaņasēna) permitted those who did not desire contact with the Muhammadans to leave his capital. We know from the Adbhutasagara that the king was a believer in astrology; we may take it that he believed in the prophecy and was preparing to leave Nadia, when Muhammad-i-Bakhtyår, posing as a horse-dealer, made his surprise attack on the palace. It would be reasonable to infer that the surprise-attack was launched before the period assured by the prophecy; in other words, not more than about one year elapsed between the fall of the 'Bihär fortress' and the capture of Nadiā.
It appears from the Tabaqāt-i-Nāsiri account that the district of Monghyr (Muner '), like Bihār, was at this period independent of Lakshmaņasēna (Rai Lakhmaniya '). Local tradition remembers it to have been under a Hindu king of Magadha called Inderdaun who is said to have succumbed to the Muhammadans led by Muhammad-i-Bakhtyar. The stronghold of Inderdaun is reputed to have been at Jaynagar (near Kiul) where, the story goes, his treasury was located. According to O'Malley!, the Jaynagar tradition affirms that Inderdaun had " a trusted warrior, whom he raised to the highest posts, until at last he asked for the hand of his master's daughter in marriage. The king was very angry, and had a cavern made in which he placed all his treasure. When all was safely stowed away, the king invited his general to see his treasury, and when he unsuspectingly went in, he let fall the trap-door and sealed it with a magic seal. It was not long before he suffered for thus killing his best general; for the Muhammadans came down and drove him a fugitive from place to place, until he was obliged to fly to Orissa." According to Waddelle
forts' ascribed to Inderdaun are pointed out by local people at Mt. Uran, 20 miles south-west of the town of Monghyr.
We may perhaps identify this Inderdaun with the Indradhavaladēvs or Indradēva of our copper-plate. The element-dhavala is found in the style Vikrama-dhavala applied in a Kadamba record to a Chalukya king otherwise known as Vikramaditya", our inscription also has & pun on -dhavala with reference to our Vikramārka (... dhavalita-suramärgge Vikramārkkasya rājña) .. 11. 8-9). The name Inderdaun is usually restored to Skt. Indradyumna, where the element -drumna seems to correspond to the - dēva in Indradeva. It is worth while enquiring if the
trusted warrior whom Inderdaun raised to the highest posts' was identical with our mahamāndalika Udayarāja.
TEXT. [Metres : v. 1, Sragdharā; vv. 2, 8, Mālini; v. 3, Sikharini ; vv. 4, 6, 9 and 14, Sardúlavikri
dita ; vv. 5, 7, 10-12, Vasantatilaka ; v. 13, Indravajra; vv. 15-20, Anushțubh ; v. 21, Pushpitāgrā.]
Obverse. 1 ॐ [I] शुभ्यत्सप्तापवानि खलदमरधुनो झातिकविराणि भस्वत्योषोधगणि
प्रचलकचतलोरियसतारोखराणि (0) मनमकलानि पसदसरसुरोभुताहाहा. 2 Taf T ita: harfyret TATA () [") avfar afer
me çfaecherchain: opa: wis() (1) forne[A]
1 Bihar and Orissa District Gazetteers, Monghyr, Patna, 1926, pp. 218-9. * J. A. 8. B., 1892, pp. lff. • Ind. Ant., Vol. IV, pp. 205-6. • Expressed by a symbol.