Epigraphia Indica Vol 29

SR No.: 032583
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1951
Total Pages: 432
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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No. 15). MUNDAKHEDE PLATES OF SENDRAKA JAYASAKTI; SAKA 602 117 Nägad plates. The drafter of the present grant has thus drawn upon previous records of the family, and, evidently regarding the epithets es conventional, has not sorupled to transfer them from one prince to another. As for orthography, we may note that is used for n in Phālguna, line 24, and the consonant following and that preceding and y are reduplicated; 100 -chäturddanta- and vikkrama-, line 2 and -anuddhyāla, line 4.
The plates refer themselves to the reign of the Sēndraka prince Jayasakti. They were issued from Jayapuradvärl. They record the grant, by Jayasakti, of a village the name of which Chandorkar read as Sērānakasasha. The correct reading of the passage where it occurs is Sēnära ésha grāmah, not Sērānakalasha-grāmah. The village was therefore named Sopapa. It was in. cluded in the Kundalikāmala vishaya. The donee was the Brāhmaṇa Bappasvāmin, the son of Rēvasvämin, who belonged to the Käsyapa gôtra and the Hiranyakësin branch of the Taittiriya bakha of the Black Yajurvēda, and resided at Kallivana. The gift was made on the occasion of the sun's entering the Mina-räsi on the 10th tithi of the dark fortnight of Phalguna in the year 602 of an unspecified era. The year and the tithi are expressed only in words. From the Nāgad plates we know that Jayasakti's father Allasakti was flourishing in Saka 577. The year 602 mentioned in the present grant of Jayasakti must, therefore, be referred to the Saka era, and corresponds to 680-81 A.C. In this period the sun entered the Mina-räsi at 20 h. 10 m. after mean sunrise on the 17th February 681 A.C. The religious ceremonies connected with the sarkrānti must have been performed after sunrise next day, the 18th February 681 A.C., which was the 10th tithi of the dark fortnight of the amanta Phälguna. This date shows that the amänta scheme of the lunar months was in vogue in Northern Mahārāshţra in the seventh century A.C. The grant was written by the Sandhivigrahika Räma.
The present grant gives the following pedigree of the donor :
Bhānusakti (Brivallabha)
Adityasakti
Nikumbhallasakti (Satyäsraya, Prithivivallabha)
Jayasakti (Satyāsraya, Prithivivallabha, Vikramaditya and Nikumbha) Chandorkar read the name of the third prince as Nikumbhalla sakti, being probably misled by Bühler's reading of the royal name in the Bagumrå plates. The facsimile of the prosent grant, however, shows the correct reading of the name to be Nikumbhāllabakti. The same reading of the name occurs in the Nägad plates published by Mr. G. H. Khare. We now know from the Kising plates that the proper name of the Sēndraka prince was Allabakti. This occurs not only in the text of the grant, but also on the seal of the plates. Nikumbha was evidently a diruda prefixed to his namo. The same biruda is seen to have been assumed by Allabakti's son Jayasakti in the present plates. The biruda was evidently derived from the name Nikumbha of Allabakti's grandfather, mentioned in the Kādārē plates. He had another name of Bhānu sakti which is noticed in the three other grants of the family, including the present one. His descendants Allabakti and Jayasakti seem to have assumed his name Nsluitbha as a biruda, probably because he was the founder of this Sēndraka branch which flourished in Gujarat and Khandesh.
1 Sarhodhaka (Marathi), Vol. VIII (October, 1939); abovo, Vol. XXVIII, p. 196. . This tithi commonood only 15 m. after moan sunrise on that day.