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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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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TEXT. 1 भीम संवत् ११.७ विस्वा(खा)वसुसंवच्छ(स)रे चैवशुद्ध १५ रखो(वौ) दिने 2 पोष श्रीमदपरादित्यदेवराव्धे । सौराष्ट्रीयत्रोसो3 मनाथदेवाय पूजासत्काराथें महामात्यत्रोलाव4 नायकेन प्रमोदधौ सुतोः खात्वा गगनैकचक्रचूडा6 मपये कमलिनीकामुकाय भगवते सवित्रे नानाविध. 6 कुसुमन्नाध्यमयं दत्वा(स्वा) सकलसुरासुरगुरुचैलोक्यस्खा7 मिनं भगवंतमुमापतिमभ्यर्थः । भास्करनायकपुषेण श्री8 लणनायकेन त्वात्मनेया(श्रेयो) श्रीदेवाधिदेवस्य श्री9 स्थानकौयपा[] नवाटिकामध्ये [दानविधौ दातव्यभा[ग] 10 दम ४ द[स्यावधीउप(प)त्तिसमग्रस्य] - - - - - दाम २४ 11 देयावे । शुभगे पूजापंचपर्वणि ------ - शि12 वराचिदक्षिणायण(न)उत्तरायण स्वस्ति श्रीचाहडदेवाय []
E.-Inscription of Soměsvaradēva : Saka 1181. This inscription was found in Ranvad near Uran. The stone measures 3' by l' 6". The inscribed portion is l' by 1' 5" and contains 11 lines of writing, the average size of letters being t". Below this is an ass sculpture differing slightly in position of the woman from those Doticed before, carved in low relief in a rectangle (18" x 11"). At the top, above the inscription, are the Sun and the Moon and between them a double kalasa..
The inscription is dated Saka 1181 Siddhartha Samvatsara Chaitra Vadi 15 (?) Monday, and reference is made in l. 9 to a suryaparvan but it is not clear whether it implies a solar eclipse, and whether the grant was made on that occasion.
The reading of the date however remains uncertain, for though according to Pillai? in Saks 1181 the Southern cyclic year was Siddharthin, Chaitra vadi 15 fell on a Thurdsay and radi 13 on Tuesday, while Monday, the day mentioned in the inscription, was a kshaya tithi and no solar eclipse occurred in that year. Under the circumstances we may read the tithi as 13, the date corresponding to 21st April, A.D. 1259, Monday.
It records that Somēśvaradēva, the paramount Lord of Konkana, granted some land (?)* in the village of Padivasa in Uraņa to Dāmódarabhatta on the occasion of surya-parvan (solar eclipse ?) for (the worship, etc.,) of Sambhu.
The ministers of Sömēsvara were the Mahamatya Jhampadaprabhu, the Mahāsāndhivigrahika [Taijjaprabhu and Chandraprabhu in charge of the srikarana.
1 Expressed by a symbol. .This anuandra is placed on the left of the letter.
Should be param-ddadhan. • Both the visarga and the dandas are unnecessary. • Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, Pt. ii, p. 21, n. 1: also noticed by Altekar, Ind. Cul., Vol. II, p. 431, No. 97. • For a similar sculpture from Borivli see p. 279 below.
Indian Ephemeris, Vol. IV, p. 120. • Details are not clear to us.