Epigraphia Indica Vol 34

SR No.: 032588
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D C Sircar
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India
Publication Year: 1961
Total Pages: 384
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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a resident of Yamagarta-mandala. He was the son of Lallada and the grandson of Dhadükā and belonged to the Vataya götra, the pravara of the five sages, the Yajurvēda charana and Kanva säkha. (3) Bhattapultra Ramadēva who was a son of the said Väsudēva and received land that was the remaining one-fourth share of the gift village. Mūthäutha in North Bengal may be the same as Muktavastu mentioned as the original home of the donees of many royal charters, while Sāvathi (Srāvasti) was probably the area around Baigrām in the Bogra District of North Bengal." Thus the three donees of the grant under study appear to have been Brāhmaṇas of North Bengal settled in Orissa.
Lines 32-33 give us the interesting information that the trin-ödaka was fixed at 4 palas of silver. The word trin-odlaka literally means 'grass and water', but technically it indicated a cess or nominal rent fixed for gift villages officially declared in some cases as a rent-free holding. The grant was made a permanent gift by means of the copper-plate charter and the royal agents and servants were forbidden to enter into the gift village. The document concludes with one of the usual benedictory and imprecatory stanzas.
The location of some of the geographical names mentioned in the inscription has already been discussed. I am not sure about the identification of the other localities mentioned in it. B. Misra identifies Yamagarta with Jamgadia in Angul or Jommurdi in the former Pallahara State. He also suggests the identification of Tuukērā with modern Tonkour in Pallahara.
TEXT
[Metres : verses 1-2 Sragdharā; verses 3-5 Anushqubh.1
Obverse
1 Siddha svasti [11*] Avadhodhata?-dvipa-ganda-s[thala)-galad-avirala-ma2 da-malina-madhū(dhu)kar-ávali-jha[m]kļiņē(t-ai)ka-pradőshát-pravüdha3 tēya(jo)-vipra-varai[r*)=Ri(Ri)k-Sama-Yajū(ju)r-vēda-dhvanibhirnivahapra4 tikrita-sakala-janapadāt anavarata-dvija-hū(hu)ta-hū5 ta 10-dhūma-samchay-õpra(pa)hasita-samastarisi 11-vāsakıt 6 Mahāparvat-ābhidhāna-parvatõdarindratā? Tunga-narēm"dr-am7 kita-tanõ[h*] Yamagarta-ma[m]dalē gata' [l*) Dū(Du)rvár-ārāti-mi
The reforence is to the five pravaras of the Vatra götra, viz. Bhäryava, Chyävans, Apnuvat, Adrva and Jamadagnya.
* History of Bengal, Dacca University, Vol. I, p. 579, note. • See above, Vol. XXX, p. 115.
See Dynasties of Medieral Oriosa, p. 40.
"From the facsimile published in JPA8B, Vol. XXI, 1916, Plates III-IV, and N. N. Vasu's Archaeological Surrey of Mayurobhanja, Plates 97-98. The second of the two illustrations is better.
• Expressed by symbol.
Read Abaddh-oddhata. * Road prasiddha.
Read dhuani-nirahaih pavitrikrita. 10 Read hutavah-odbhūta. Cf. line 4 of the Asiatic Society's plate. 11 Read 8amast-arshi. 11 Read parentād=adr-invitat. 18 The sign of anwarara is placed above the following letter. 16 Read mandal-antargatat.