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SARSAVNI PLATES OF BUDDHARAJA.
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of the Gujarat Chalakyag. As regards individual letters, attention may be drawn to the following signs: the initial 6, e.g. in @sha, and the initial 61 in Kumarivadas, both in 1. 20; the kh in Iskhitam, 1. 34, and askhalita-, 1. 6; the d, e.g. in pidita- and -mandalah, 1. 10; the subscript
in arnnava, 1. 21; the th, e.g. in prithivyámapratirathas, 1.9, and dharmmarttha., 1. 32; the ph, e.g. in phalan, 1. 31; the two forms of l, e. g. in phalar and opalanan, 1. 31, salild and baldpd-, 1. 9; the final m and t in prajdnám, 1. 17, and vasét, 1. 29; the jihoamaliya and upadhmdniya, e.g. in parakkalarika., 1. 4, and vigrahah-para-, 1. 7. The writing, in line 35, also contains numerical symbols for 300, 60, 10, 5, and 1.- The language of the inscription is Sanskrit, and with the exception of five benedictive and imprecatory verses in lines 28-32, the text is in proge. The orthography calls for few remarks. Instead of anusvára the guttural and dental pasals are employed in the words varifa, 11. 6 and 12, vanilya, 1. 24, and pradhansa, 1. 16; final visarga is changed to the jihvámúliya in paral=kalasika- and rahitak=kula-, l. 4, and to the upadhmaniya in vigraha-pard-, 1. 7, opatibhih-prabala-, 1. 24, Omantavyah-pala', 1. 27, and sddhuh-punar-, 1. 32; sh is (wrongly“) doubled after r in varshshas, 1. 28, and dh (correctly) before y in the word anuddhyata, twice in line 14. Besides, the word prithivi is written prithivi in line 9, and a few times the rules of sandhi have been neglected.
The inscription is one of Buddharaja, the son of Sankara gana who was the son of Krishnaraja, of the family of the Katachohuris. It records an order of Buddharaja's, issued from the royal residence or camp at Anandapura, to the effect that he granted the village of Kumarivadað, which was near to Brihannårikå, in the GorajjA-bhoga of the Bharukachchha-vishaya, to the Brahman Bappasvâmin, an inhabitant of Dobhaks. It is dated, in words and numerical symbols, on the 15th of the dark half of Karttiks of the year 361.
The names of the three kings or chiefs - the insoription does not furnish any titles for them - who are mentioned in the preceding paragraph, are not new to us. As the date of the inscription must undoubtedly be referred to the Kalachuri era, it would fall in either A.D. 609 or A.D. 610,9 and it is therefore certain that the donor of the grant, Sankaragana's son Buddharija, is identical with that Buddhar&je, the son of Sankara gana, who according to the Nerar plates (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 161) was put to flight by the Western Chalukya Mangalaraja (Mangalêsa), and to whom the BadAmi (Mahákůta) pillar-inscription (of A.D. 602 (?), ibid. Vol. XIX. p. 16) refers when it states that Msogalesa, having set his heart upon the conquest of the northern region, conquered (the Kalatsūri] king Buddhs and took away his wealth. Sankaragana, again, clearly is that Šamkarana,' the son of Krishṇaraja, whose feet according to the Sårkheda plate of Santilla (Ep. Ind. Vol. II. p. 23) were meditated on by the Bhögikapala Mahápilupati Nirihullaka,7 and our grant proves the correctness of Prof. Bühler's saggestion (ibid. p. 22) that the reading Sankaranah of the Sååkhôda plate should be altered to Sarikaraganah.
Though the eulogy of the three kings, which fills just one half of the inscription, does not contain any historical allusions, it is not void of interest. Some of the epithets applied to the
Compare the same letter in the word Osmbhald, in the Sorat plates of the Gujarat Chalukya Yuvardja Styrsys-StiAdity, Vienna Or. Congrass, Arian section, p. 228,1 21, Plate. The initial ai occurs in the word aihita, above, Vol. III. p. 66, 1. 21, Plate; the initial as in 4 damdghayd, Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 155, 1. 84, Plate.
· The name form of th we have in the Stars plates of Vishnuvardhana I., Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 309, Plste..
• The symbols agree with those given by Prof. Babler from Valabht plates.
• Compare Paņiai, VIII. 4. 49. For other instances where sibilants are wrongly doubled, compare yasaya, Gupta Inscr. p.78, and panchadailydm and lindy 6, ibid. p. 258.
* So this word is written also in the Aihole Inscription, above, p. 5, 1. 6 of the text. With my opoch for the later Ka
my epoch for the latar Kalschuri dates, the date (tor the pirnimdata Karttiks) would correspond to the and October A.D. 609; bat in agreement with the dates of the Nanket and Kivt plates of the (nrjara Jaynhhita III. (No. 403 and 403 of my List of Northern Insor.) it would respond to either the 32nd Sopther or the 2nd October A.D. 610. The date, of course, dou not admit of yorifes fan.
+ See my List of Northern Inser. No 427.
