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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No. 6] MUSUNIKA GRANT OF DEVENDRAVARMAN III ; GANGA YEAR 306
3 dēvasya prava[r*]ddhamāna-sämrājyē chatusinsattamā: Ankē Makara4 suk[la]-pafchami(mi)-Guru-vārė Srimad-akalanka-s[u]dha-dhavala-kalāni5 dhi-kalā-kā(ka)lita-maulêr-bhabha(ga)vato jagad-isva(sva)rasya Kirttivā6 Basőt dēvasya parvvõtsarvva(va)-mahotsava-vivāh-ūdy-utsv-paja(yu)7 kta-pratiniyata-maņda pasya prati-dvādas-āvdi(bdi)y-achchhādan-ā(r]tham 8 kumbhakārāya dvē vātikē praty-avdi(bdi)ya-chūrņn-ávalēpan-asr*]tham 9 chfü)rņņakārāya dvo anudinam vāra-traya-sammājam(rja)n-ā[*]thari mē. 10 kë Tarallakshmi-Sāgarapatīmā-grāmitham(ya)-pancha-vāțyaḥ 11 Garēā-sēnā -adhyakshas[y]a p[u]tr[ē*]ņa jirņn-oddhāra-ka[r]tra Go. .12 vinda-s[@*]nāpatinā pradatā(ttā) ata ūsām-apaharanam yah karo13 ti bha[min]g-adhik[ā]ri na(nū)nam sa bhavatsā]ta? dātn(tā) sukhi bhavatu lol
No. 6–MUSUNIKA GRANT OF DEVENDRAVARMAN III; GANGA YEAR 306
(I Plate)
V. V. MIRASHI, NAGPUR The copper-plates containing this grant are said to have been found by a cultivator while ploughing a field at Shalantri, a village fitteen miles west of Chicacole in the Srikakulam (Chicacole) District of the Andhra State. They have been published with facsimiles by Mr. Manda Narasimham in the Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society, Vol. XVIII (Silver Jubilee Volume), pp. 115 ff. As the published facsimile is not quite clear and Mr. Narasimham's tran. script of the text also is not quite satisfactory, I re-edit the record here from excellent ink impressions, kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist for India.
The copper-plates are three in number, each measuring 7.3" broad and 3.2' high. The first and the third plate are inscribed on the inner sido only, and the second on both the sides. When discovered, the plates were held together by a ring which carried the usual Ganga seal, containing the emblem of a couchant bull. The platos together with the ring weigh 119 tolas, and the ring only, 35 tolas. The writing on the first plate and on the first side of the second has suffered a little from verdigris, but the damaged letters can be read without much difficulty. The remaining two inscribed sides are in a good state of preservation.
The record consists of 30 lines, the first and the third plate having 8 lines each, and the second 7 lines on either side. The characters are of the later Kalinga alphabet, noticed in the records
1 Read chatustrimsattame. · Better read Krilliväsadevanya. . Read Ortham=ēka. • Road sen adhyakshanya. The rule of Sandhi has been neglected here. . There appear to be traces of a superfluous vi after this akshara.
• The word bhanga may mean here 'ruin, downfall, destruction, defeat, discomfiture, humiliation, paralysis', etc.
Read bhavatat • JAHRS, Vol. XVIII, p. 116. I have not, however, been able to trace this village on the Degree Map 66 N.