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KOLHAPUR INSCRIPTION OF VIJAY ADITYA.
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district of Ajiragekholla, for the eightfold worship of Parsvanathadeva at a shrine which had been established at the said village by a certain Vasudeva, a dependent (P hadapavala) of the Samanta Kamadeva and disciple of Maghanandisiddhantadêva, the head of the Pustaka gachchha of the Desiya gana of the Mala sangha and priest of the Jaina temple of the holy Rûpanarayana at Kshullakapura, and for the purposes of keeping the shrine in proper repair and of providing food for the ascetics of the shrine, having washed the feet of Månikyanandipandita (apparently the superintendent of the shrine) who was another disciple of Maghanandisiddhantadêva, and exempting the grant from all taxes and molestations. Lines 27-28 contain the usual appeal to future rulers to respect this donation as if it were one of their own. And the inscription ends with the verse (in Old-Kanarese) -
The lord Jina, himself the abode of the sentiment of quietism, (is) his god; the sustere Maghanandin, the saiddhantika, the yôgin, himself the abode of the virtue of unweariedness, is or was) his preceptor; the lord Kamadeva, the Samanta, (is) his ruler (or master) ;-- this (is) the excellence, this is the religious merit,- this (is) the advancement of Vasudeva!'
As regards the date of this grant, the year Dandubhi is Saka-Samvat 1065 as a current. (not, as stated erroneously in the text, as an expired) year; and for Saka-Samvat 1065 current the given day corresponds to Monday, the 1st February, A.D. 1143, when there was a total lunar eclipse 17 h. 23 m. after mean sunrise, which of course was visible in India.
of the looalities mentioned, Valavide, the place of residence of Vijayadityadeva, had been suggested by Sir W. Elliot to be probably the modern W&?we, about sixteen miles to the sonth of Kolhapur; but Dr. Fleet now suggests that it may be in reality the village of Wa!wa (Valaver) on the Krishna, about twenty-four miles north by east from Kolhậpur, which gave the name to the Waļwa tâluka of the Satârâ district. The village of H&vina-Héfilage and the place Ajirage, which gave the name to the district in which the village was situated, I am unable to identify, Lastly, Kehullakapura clearly is another name of the town of Kolhapur (or Kollapura) itself, where, as we know from an inscription at Térd&l and from another inscription at Sravana-Belgola, there was a temple of the holy Rapanårøyaņa, the priest of which was the same Maghanandisiddhantadêva who is mentioned in this inscription as well as in the next.
TEXT. 1 Srimataparama-gambhira-syAdvad-Amôgha-lêmichhanamh [1] jiya[t'] trailokya
nathasya sâsanam Jina-såganar ll II 2 Svasti Srir=jjayas-ch=&bhyudayagacha
Jayaty-amala-nânårttha-pratipattipradarsakam [1] arhata3 b=Purudêvasya sasanam môha-âsanam 1 Svasti [1] Sri-siļdhâra
mahakshatriy-&nvayê vitra4 st-Abêsha-ripu-pratatir=Jjatigô Dâma narêmdrô=bhůt tasya sûnavô Gomkalo
Güvalah 5 Kirttirajas-Chandrådityas-ch-êti chatváraḥ 1 tatra Gorkala-bhatalapatêr=
Mmérasimhô nåms nandanaḥ | tasya tanujah? Guvalo 6 Gamgadēvaḥ Ballkladevah Bhojadevah Gandarådityad[va]s-chréti
parchaltêsha dharmmika-Dharmmajasya vairi-ka
1 See Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 24, noto 27. 'I owe the translation of this verse to Dr. Fleet. .: Major Graham has suggested that the village may probably be the Heirleh' of the mape, about eight miles north-east of the city of Kolhapur. I myself have felt inclined to identify Ajirage with Ajuriks (the modern Ajare), where Somad vs wrote his Sabdarparachandrikd; see Ind. Ant. Vol. X. pp. 75-76.
* See Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 18, 1. 48; and Mr. Rice's Inscriptions at Sravana-Belgola, pp. 9-10 (No. 40), where we find the Samanta Kamadeva of the present inscription mentioned s lay-dinciple of Maghanandip. From an impression, supplied to me by Dr. Fleet.
Metre 1 Sloka (Anushţubh). 7 Here and in other places below, the rules of sandhi have not been observed.
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