Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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(36) proper place in the royal dynastic lists. The first of these inscriptions is the Damoh Stone Inscription which was discovered in the Hatta Tahsil of Damoh in C. P., and is now deposited in the Nagpur Museum.' It is written in Apabhramsa with a free translation in Sanskrit. It recites that one Vijayapāia Kshatriya was born in the Viśvāmitra Gotra. He conquered a hero named Kai. His son was Bhuvana pāla who defeated the Kalacuris, the Gujaras and the Deccan kings.2 Rai Bahadur Hiralal thinks that this inscription probably belongs to the 12th century and that the persons named in the record were, perhaps, commanders of armies and possibly, related to the Gubila princes of Mevād in which dynasty there was one Vijayasimba who married Syāmaladevi daughter of Udayāditya of Malwā by whom he had a daughter Albanadevi who married Gayákarna of Dábala.3 The Second record is a fragmentary inscription found at Kalinjar which speaks of a king named Bhūmipāla the son of Vijayapāla, and goes on to say, after a lacuna, that the son had made himself the ornament of the southern direction and had vanquished the ocean-like Karna. Bhūmipāla is found mentioned in a third fragmentary inscription found at Tewar." All the three inscriptions, on palaeographic grounds, are assigned to
1. Rai Bahadur Hiralal: Inscriptions in C. P. & Berar. Nagpur 1932 p. 55.
2. The following lines of the inscription are taken from the Nagari-I'racariniPatrika Vol. VI, p. 5, compared with a havd rubbing copy of the inscription kindly furnished by R. B. Hiralal.
विसामित्त गोत्त उत्तमचरित विमल पवितो गाण ।
अरघड घडणो संसजिय दूवडो भूवाण ॥ दूवड्डा पटि परिठिअउ खत्तिय विजयपालु । जेणे काइउ रणि विजिणिउ तह सुअ भुवणपालु ॥ कलचुरि गुजर ससहरह दक्खिण चइ सुख अंड ॥ चहुरा अहरण विजिणण हरिसराअ भुजदंड ॥
3. Inscriptions in C. 1. & Berar, p. 55.
4. Nilakantha Inscription No. II, JASB Vol. XVII. I am obliged to Prof. V. V. Mirashi for kindly drawing my attention to this inscription as well as the one next mentioned. It contains the following lines:
अजनि विजयपालस्तत्सुतो भूमिपालः शिततरकरवालध्वस्तराजन्यमालः। ......3: LFHÌ Aluargarita
यो दक्षिणाशाभरणीकृतात्मा कर्णार्णवं तूर्णमपाचकार ॥ 5. Intian Antiquary Vol. XX p. 85. The following broken lines have been read
4 महासमुद्रात्सा श्रियां समभवद् भुषि भूमिपालः
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