Epigraphia Indica Vol 26

SR No.: 032580
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1945
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XXVI.
(LI. 24-28) His Majesty, from his illustrious camp of victory pitched in the environs of.......! -grima, meditating on the feet of the mighty prince, the devout worshipper of Vishnu, His most excellent Majesty the King of Kings Vallalasõna-döva :-His most excellent Majesty the King of Kings the victorious Lakshmanasõna-döva, the Moon churned up by Mount Mandara out of the wealth of the... world, the Aditya of battles, the Sri of the ocean (of knowledge); the Lakshmi of word-composition, the sun that opens the lotus of the Sēna family, the lord of Gauda, the mighty prince, the devout worshipper of Narasimha :
(Ll. 28-32) to the assembled chiefs, chieftains, and queens, the Ränakas, the nobles, the royal councillors, the Chief Priest, the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Peace and War, the Commander-in-Chief, the Keeper of the Seal, the Antaranga, the Brihaduparika, the Superintendent of Accounts, the Chamberlain, the Mahābhogika, the Mahāpilupati, the Mahāganastha, the Daussādhikas, the Superintendents of Police, those in charge of ships, troops, elephants, horses, cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep and the like, overseers of forests, Dandapädikas, Dandanāyakas, officers in charge of districts (vishayapati), etc., and all other servants of His Majesty named in the list of officials and not here mentioned
(L. 33) to persons belonging to the Chatta and Bhatta class, to the people in general, cultivators, Brāhmaṇas, and the chief Brāhmaṇags_
(LI. 34-37) (His Majesty as aforesaid) sends greeting As is fit and notification and command:Be it noted by you that (two parcels of land, as follows) (1) in the chaturaka Vaţumbi which forms part of the avritti Väschaba (?) situated in the bhukti Paundravarddhana, land bounded on the east by Khāvālāpāndi, on the south by Jaladándi, on the west and likewise the north by Sujanadi(?)-the land] thus defined by four boundaries, together with the part-lands Kaville, Chunchali, Gandoli and Döhipă ;
1 See above, p. 7, n. 9.
* Sågara may have a double reference to (1) the sea, from which Sri emerged at the churning of the openn, (2) the four sågaras or encyclopædias composed by Vallalasēna (Adbhuta , Danao, Pratishthio and Achara-adgara),
although Lakshmanasēna was part-author of the first only. [According to my reading this portion should be translated as : who has obtained the sovereignty of Geuda by churning the boundless ocean of battles with the Mandara (mountain) in the shape of his own arm. ... See p. 7, notes 11, 12.-Ed.)
* It is not to be supposed that any of the officials and others to whom the rescript is addressed were in fact assembled. The list appears to cover four categories
(a) the court or personal entourage of the King, (6) the great Ministers of State, usually marked by the prefix Maha-, (c) officials not of the highest rank, probably intended to be specified in the plural (from daussidhika to
vishayapati), (d) petty officials and the general public.
Adhyaksha-prachára is the title of the chapter on officials in the Kaufiliya Artha-datra. There was no doubt a Séna Civil List defining the various officers and their duties.
Majumder (op. cit. pp. 182-188) has an appendix on terms denoting official titles in Sēna inscriptions. Ho relies in the main on J. P. Vogel's Antiquities of Chamba State: Part 1, Inscriptions of the pre-Muhammadan period (Arch. Survey, New Imperial Series, Vol. XXXVI, 1911); referring also to the Mahävyutpatti (Csoma de Koros ed. and transl., 4. 8. B. Memoira, Vol. IV. No. 1, 1910, PP. 29-35) and other sources. The following among his references may be mentioned in particular.. Antaranya, court-physician (Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 43); Uparika (Brihaduparika), viceroy (Vogel p. 123 ; Ep. Ind., Vol. XV, p. 113 ff., the Demodarpur plates); Gaulmika (Vogel p. 127; Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 263 ; Gupta Inscr., p. 52; Mahavyutpatti, p. 33); Chaffa, head of a pargana (Vogel pp. 130-132; Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, 296, 299, ibid., XI, 19, 296, 299): Chauröddharanika (Vogel p. 129): Dandapse fika one who holds the rod and rope' (Vogel, p. 129); Bhatta (Vogel p. 132; Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 18; and reference to Mahavyutpatti, p. 31); Mahakshapatalika (Vogel p. 133); Mahäpilupati (Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, 43; Mahävyutpatti, p. 30); Mahapratīhāra (Vogel p. 135; Gupla Inscr., p. 190); Mahabhogika or Mahabhögapati (Vogel p. 130; Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 253, note 6).