Epigraphia Indica Vol 31

SR No.: 032585
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1955
Total Pages: 506
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 30 MB

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SULTANPUR COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION
It will, however, be noted in this connection that the donation referred to in the inscription was made in favour of Brahmanas who belonged to Pundravarddhana, the site of which has now been definitely identified with Mahasthan in the Bogra District. It will therefore be reasonable to look for the situation of the grant as near the residence of the donees as possible. The lands conveyed by the document lay in Hastisirsha, Vibhitaki, Dhanyapaṭalika and Gulmagandhika, all belonging to the Gōhali mandala of the Sringavera vithi. There is a place called Singahar about 20 miles to the south-west of Mahasthan. Singähär might be a corruption of Sringavera. About 7 miles to the east of Singahar is a village called Gōhali. About a couple of miles to the north of Singahar is a village called Beheegaon, which might be a corruption of Vibhitaki. About 4 miles to the north-east of Beheegaon is a village called Hatsara which might be the old Hastiśirsha. The village of Dhanyapaṭalikā appears to have stood on the bank of the Vața. The only river in the locality is a small stream called Nagar, an offtake of the Karatōya. About 3 miles to the north of Hatsara is a village called Dhanpūjā on the Nagar river. Is it the modern representative of Dhanyapāṭalikā? I am unable to locate Gulmagandhikā.
TEXT Obverse
1 Svasti []*] Sringavöra-vaithëya-Pārppak[au]áíkäyäḥ Äyuktak[8]-chyutadās5-dhikaraga -cha Hastisirshe [Vibhitak]yah [Gu]lma[gandhi]
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? käyärh Dhanyapāṭalikāyāṁ sa-Göhälishu' Brāhmaṇ-ādīn-grāma-kuṭumbi[naḥ k]ufalam-anuvargya bōdhyanti []*] [vi]ditam-bö(tah võ)
3 bhavishyati yatha iha-vithi-Kulika-Bhima-Kayastha-Prabhuchandra-Rudradāsa-Devadatta
Lakshmana-Katida]va-Sambhudatta-Krishna
4 dasa-Pustapala-Sinha (Simba)nandi-Yasōdāmabhiḥ Vithi-mahattara-Kumaradeva-Ganda-Prajapati-Uma-Yasarāma sarmma-Jyeshtha
5 dāma1-Svämichandra-Harisinha (simha)-kutumbi-Yasovishņu-Kumāra vishnu-KumārabhavaKumārabhūti-Kumara-Ya[sögu]pta-Vailina[ndi ?*]
6 Sivakunda-Vasusiv-Aparasiva-Damarudra-Prabhumitra-Krishnamitra-Maghasarmma10.
Iévarachandra-Rudra-Bhavana[tha].."
1 See above, Vol. XXI, p. 88.
[There are numerous instances to prove this assumption to be definitely wrong. There can moreover hardly be any doubt about the identification of Vafa-nads with the present Bărănai.-Ed.]
From the original plate.
[Possibly Samgohalishu or Sagōhalishu.-Ed.]
[Better bhavatu.-Ed.]
Read Yasorama. [Better Umayaio-Ramasarma".-Ed.]
[The reading is "do(da)ma.-Ed.]
[The akshara does not look like ndi.-Ed.]
[The reading is Prabha; of. Prabhuchandra in line 3 and Bhavadatta in line 8.-Ed.]
10 [The rules of sandhi, which is compulsory in a compound, have not been observed here.-Ed.] [The reading seems to be Rudrabhava-Suami[děva].—Ed.]