Epigraphia Indica Vol 30

SR No.: 032584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 490
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Fifth Plate.
142 तदिदमवनोवनीवनीपकविनुतघरा यस्य कृष्णरायस्य [1] शासनमति142 व (ब) ले शासनतरूकरदानस्य शापदानस्य ॥ [ ६२*] कृष्णदेवमहारायशा144 सनेन सभापति [: । *] प्रभाणींमृ ( णीन्मृ ) दुसंदभं तदिदं ताव्र ( प्र .) शासनं (नम् ) [ ।। ६३* ] 145 त्वष्टा श्रीमल्लणाचार्य (र्यो) वीरणाचार्यनंदनः [*] आकल्पे ( ल्प ) मश्नुतेत्त्र146 को वृत्ति शासनलेखकाः *] ॥ [ ६४ ] महो राघवराजेन्द्र सप्तकल्प (पं) वसाम्य147 हं (हम् ) [ 1 ] न श्रुणोमि न पस्या (श्या) मि स्वयं दत्तापहारिणा ।।[६५*]
स्वदत्तां परदत्त वा
158
148-163 The usual imprecatory stanzas (verses 66-69).
154 श्रीविस ( रू ) प (पा) क्ष'
[VOL. XXX
No. 28.-BHUBANESWAR INSCRIPTIONS OF RAGHAVA, SAKA 1090
(1 Plate)
D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND
The celebrated Ganga monarch Anantavarman Chōdaganga (1078-1147 A. D.) is known to have annexed the whole of Lower Orissa to his empire. So far, however, very few inscriptions of this king and his immediate successors have been traced in the Puri-Cuttack region. It was therefore not without satisfaction that I found two fragmentary recor's of the time of Raghava, one of the sons and successors of Anantavarman Chōdaganga, amongst the impressions (preserved in the office of the Government Epigraphist for India) of the inscriptions in the Lingaraja temple at Bhubaneswar in the Puri District of Orissa. In the copper-plate charters of the later members of the family, Raghava is assigned a reign of 15 years, sometimes believed to be of the Anka reckoning and equal to 13 actual years. His rule was placed by M. Chakravarti between Saka 1078 (1156-57 A.D.) and 1092 (1070-71 A.D.). Some scholars' believe that Raghava ended his rule in Saka 1090, although he could not have died before Saka 1091 (1169-70 A.D.) which is the date of one of his known records.
Five inscriptions of Raghava's reign, all of them in the Śrīkurmam temple, have so far been published. Two of these refer to the reign of Anantavarman Devidasa Ranaranga-Raghava Chakravartin, while the rest mention the king under the name Anantavarman only. The five
1 Engraved in bold Kannada-Telugu characters.
Another fragmentary inscription, some impressions of which were traced by me among the estampages preserved in the office of the Government Epigraphist for India, may be noticed here. The first three lines of this record, engraved on the east wall (right) inside the central shrine of the Lingaraja temple, read: (1) Siddham svasti bri-Ra......(2) vijayarajye [sam]...... (3) våre bri-Kirtied........It is, however, impossible to determine whether the king mentioned in line 1 is Raghava or Rajaraja (II or III).
JARB, 1903, p.113.
Cf. Ray, DHNI, Vol. I, p 474.
811 Vol. V, Nos. 1330, 1331, 1336, 1340 and 1341.