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No. 19.)
ASSAM PLATES OF VALLABHADEVA.
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of the inscription is Sanskrit, and, with the exception of the introductory ôir namo Bhagavata Vasudéraya, the whole is in verse. Of unusual words, or words used in an unusual sense, the text offers nárapatya, 1. 20, rule, reign,' kada(sa)ra, I. 33, a buffalo,' chhurikára 1. 34, one who is skilled in the use of the dagger,' jhata in the technical expression sajháta-vitapa, 1. 41,' with the woods and thickets,' and akarshaka, 1. 45, 'the extent (? of a piece of land).' In respect of orthography the following points may be noted : The letter 6 is written by the sign for v; the palatal and dental sibilants are confounded in sanfira (for sansára), l. 25, kisara, 1. 33, fima, 1. 42, srinigara, 1. 24, subhd and sasté, 1. 41 ; the guttural Dasal is employed instead of the sign of anusvára in the word vassa, 11. 9, 16, and 52; before y, l is doubled in sallyasya, 1. 31 ; and eight times the roles of samdhi have not been observed in regard to the final consonant of a word before a following consonant. Besides it may be noted that in line 21 samutsritáni is used instead of samuchchhritáni.
The inscription is one of a prince Vallabhadeva of wbom, in verses 3-10, the following genealogy is given in the race of the Moon there was a certain Bhaskara ; his son was the king or chief Râyârideva-Trailókyasimha (whose wifel was Vasumati ?); his son, again, was Udayakarna-Nihsankasimha, whose wife was Ahiavadevi'; and their son was Vallabhadeva-Śrivallabha. Nothing of historical importance is recorded of any of these chiefs.
According to verses 19-22, Vallabhadeva, at the time of the sun's progress to the north in the saka year 1107 (given in numerical words), at the command of his father and for the spiritual welfare of his mother, founded an alms-house or place for the distribution of food (bhakta-fúla, anna-sattra), near a temple of the god Mabadêvs (Siva) to the east of Kirtipur in the Hapyacha district (mandala); endowed it with the revenues of) certain villages and hamlets the names and boundaries of which are given, and so far as I understand the text) assigned the services of five men, whose names also are recorded, and of their families.
The localities mentioned in the inscription I am unable to identify. The date does not admit of verification; it would correspond to the 25th December of either A.D. 1184 or 1185, according as the Sako year 1107 is taken as a current or an expired year.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1. Omôm namo bhagavate Vasudêvâya 1| Yad-gaņda-mapdala2 taţi-prakat-Ali-mâlâ varnp-ával-iva kha-dale khalama3 ngalasya Lamro(mb)darah sa jagatârn y aśasan prasaram=å4 nandatâm dyumaņina Baba yåvad-indub 11 [1] Pâtála-palva5 la-talad=divam=atpatishņôr=Vvishpoh
punâtu
krita-ghfishti. 6 trnôs=tanur-vva) 1
yat-tundakhanda-dbřita-bhd-nalinidalasys 7 luka-nála-sadpisau kamath-ôragendran ll [2]
7&sid=bhūmibhuSecond Plate; First Side. 8 jm-mali-maņi-jala-varatrika
yên=ópânad-yages 9 kari Chandra-vaniho A Bhiskarab | 13°1 Tasmatto saurya-vibhava
1 See my note on the translation of verse 4
Or, perhape, biaraddol. • Coupare the name Hapyoma, in Hapyma-vishaya in Plate iid, line 6, of the Gaubsgt plates of ladrapalayaman, mentioned above. From Dr. Fleet's impressions.
• Expressed by a smhol. • Metre of wraca 1 and 2: Vasantatilnka. 7 Metre: sloks (Anulţubl). Rend-sanit.
Motre of versos 4 and 5: Sardalsvikridita.. 10 Read tasmach.
