Epigraphia Indica Vol 03

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VoL. III.
The inscription records the gift of the village of Mede[14]ka in the Tirikatu-vishaya (line 13 f.) to a Brahmana of the Vajasaneya school (1. 16). The grant was made at Kalinganagaral (1.2) on the day of a solar eclipse (1. 18) in “the three-hundred-and-fourth year or tho roign of the G[a]ngeya race" (1. 28 f.). The donor was king Anantavarman, the son of the Maharaja Rajendravarman, a member of the Ganga family (1. 12 f.) and a worshipper of Mahesvara (1. 11). The wording of the passage which celebrates the virtues of the king (II. 1 to 12), is identical with that of the corresponding passage in a copper-plate grant of Dévêndravarman, the son of the Maharaja Anantavarman. As Dr. Fleet bas expressed his intention of treating the chronology of the Gangas of Kalinga," I refrain from attempting any conjectures regarding the date of the new inscription, and would only point out that it appears to refer to the same era as the grant of the year 254,* and that, consequently, the king Anantavarman, by whom the subjoined grant was issued, appears to be distinct from, and later than, another Anantavarman, who was the father of Devendravarman.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1 ओं वस्त्यमर[][रा"] नुक[*]रिण[:"] सर्वर्तुमुखरमणीया[दि]ज[य]2 वत']: कलिङ्गानगरवासका[*] महेन्द्र[*]चलामलसिखरप्रतिष्ठि3 तिस्य' सचराचरगुरो[:] सकलभु[व]ननिर्माणकसुत्रधारस्य
"सशङचुडामणर्भगवतो गीकरणख[*]मिनबर- : णकमलयुगलप्रणामाहिगतकलकलको-10
नेक[7]हवसंक्षोभजनितजय[श" प्रतापावनतस7 "मस्तसामन्तचक्रचुदा[म]णिप्रभामणुरीपुण(र)-13
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Second Plate; First Side. 8 . "रणितनिजनिस्विनधारोपार्जितवरचरण[:"] सितकुम[दकुं]१ देन्दुवदातयगा" ध्व(7)स्तारातिकुलान्चलो नयविनय[द]
यादानदाचिन्ययोर्येदार्य सत्यत्यागादिगुणस
पदाधारभुतो" परममाहेश्वरी "मातापित्रुपाद[r*]12 नुध्यात[:.] गङ्गामलकुलतिलको म()हार[]जग्रीरा-"
1 This is probably the modern "Calingapatam;" Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 14, and Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 7.
Publisbed by Dr. Fleet, Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. pp. 273 . Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 144. Read XXI .
U Read कुम्देन्नवदावयचा. .See note 6 on previous page. | ___ Read कविकली .
• Read दाक्षिण्यशीयौदार्य. . From the original copper-plates. | " Read शब्द:
- Read संपदाधारभूव• Read शिखर. • Rond चूडा.
- Read पिक 7 Read °वस्ख. - Read मचरौपुच.
Read धौरा • Read सूच.
- Read रविवमिननिस्विंश.