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KHALIMPUR PLATE OF DHARMAPALADEVA.
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and the word chaturshu is written chaturushu in line 44. In respect of the observance of the rules of sandhi, it may be noted that m is several times retained before v, instead of being changed to anusvára, not only in samoat, 1. 61, but also at the end of words, e.g. in - vapusham=vdhininám=vidhatun, 1. 20; that is doubled before in rdjaputtra, l. 32, and attra, 1. 60; that the conjuncts dv and dho are incorrectly employed instead of ddy and ddhu in -kridvipah, 1. 41, and oudhed, 1. 58 (but not in vuddhva, 1. 60); and that visarga several times has been wrongly omitted, e.g. in akirtti kshapayatám, 1. 59. The only other point of grammar that need be drawn attention to here is the employment of the word uparilikhitaka, for uparilikhita, in line 52, for which we now can quote numerous analogous instances from other inscriptions. The prose (formal) part of the text offers a considerable number of words, some of them technical terms, which, 80 far as I know, have not yet been met with elsewhere, and the meaning of some of which is obscure. Thus, in the description of the boundaries of the villages in lines 31-43, we find ardhasrótika, khataka, khatiká, jólaka, bhishuka (?), and yanaka or ydnikd, (and perhaps some others, if they are not proper names), some of which may bave been drawn from the writer's vernacular. In the long list of officials, enumerated in lines 44-47, we have the Shashthadhikrita, Dundafakti, Khôla, Jyéshthakdyastha and Datagramika, who are not mentioned in other inscriptions which I have been able to compare. And revenue-torms peculiar to our text are talapataka: and haffikd in lines 51 and 52, and pindaka in line 55.
The inscription is one of the devout worshipper of Sugata (Buddha), the Paramésvara Paramabhaffäraku Maharajadhirdja Dharmapaladeva, and records that the king, at the request of his Mahasamantadhipati Narayanavarman, which was communicated to him by the Dataka, the Yuvaraja Tribhuvanapala, granted four villages to a temple of the god N[n]nnaNåråyana, which had been founded by Narayana varman at Subhasthali. It is the earliest record of any extent that has yet been found of the Palab dynasty, but, excepting that it gives us the names of the father and grandfather-Vapyata and Dayitavishņu- of Gopala (1.), and relates that, to put an end to lawlessness and disorder, Gôpåla was induced by the people to assume the sovereignty, and that he married the Bhadra king's daughter Deddadêvi, it tells us nothing whatever that was not known before regarding that dynasty. About Gopala, its founder, we learn no more from it than what has just been stated. Of Dharmapala, his and Deddadêvi's son, the only fact recorded is, that he installed a certain king of Kanyakubja (or Kanauj), to the joy of the people of Panchåla, and with the ready approval of the Bhojas, Matsyas, Madras, Kurus, Yadus, Yavanas, Avantis, Gandh&ras and Kiras. And of this even we already had a more specific account in the third verse of the Bhagalpur plate of Narayanapala, according to which Dharmapåla gave back again the sovereignty of Mahodaya (or Kananj), which he had acquired by defeating Indraraja and other enemies, to the begging Chakriyudha.
* Compare aruhati for arhati, above, Vol. III. p. 143.
- Compare, e.g., bhuktaka in line 10 of the Madhuban plate of Harsba, Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 73, and see Gupta Inscr. p. 69.
* In a note on the translation I have drawn attention to the fact that the Do- Baranark inscription of Jivitagupta II. of Magadba (Gupta Inscr. No. 46) contains the word taldråtaka as the designation of some official. Perhaps I may mention here that that inscription, too, contains an nousually long list of officials- in line 10, what has been understood to be the name of a village, appears to me really to be kibbra-vaa ard-go-mahishy-adhikritaand that in line 14 of it we have the same word yathálálddhy drin which we have in line 47 of the present inscription, and which, if my memory serves me rightly, is not of ordinary occurrence except in inscriptions from Orissa.
• The Dátaka of the Mungir plate of Devapals also was a Fuvardja, the king's son Rajyap&ls; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI. p. 258.
This designation of the family actually occurs in line 4 of the Kammuli plate of Vaidyadêve, Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 350.
The Bhadras are variously placed in the middle country, or in the eastern or southern division of India; Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 174.
