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PATIAKELLA GRANT OF MAHARAJA SIVARAJA.
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dopor points to Saivism, but the names of several doneos such as Vishnusvami. Révatisvami. Gôpålasvâmi, etc., show a Vaishnava taint. The document was issued from Vôrttanoka, which was the Imperial capital (1. 4) as well as the residence of the fendatory chief (1.8). The grant consisted in the village Tandralvalu. It was given to several Brahmaps belonging to separate gôtras and charañas. The date has already been discussed. There can be little donbt about the foot that it is a Gapta year. Thas our grant was incised after the Bodh Gays insuription and before the Gañjâm grant, the Nepal inscription of the yoar 316, and the Mande vari inscription. The second line mentions the kings of the Maņa race, Manavaniardjyakáld. This dynasty has been mentioned in two 12th century insoriptions only, vis. the Nawada inscription of the Saka year 1059,1 which has been recently purchased by the Aroheological Survey and brought to the Indian Museum, and in the Dudhpani rock inscription.
I am afraid it is beyond my power to identify the geographical position of the village mentioned in the PatiAkella grant. Neither the vishaya nor the bhukti or the mandala has been mentioned in the grant, but in lines 5-6, we find aeminna@va vishayd, which probably indicates that the name of the vishaya was also Vorttanka. I now edit the inscription from the original plate :
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First Side 1 Om svasti [18] salila-nidhi-vêla-vals[yita-cha]la-tarang-abharaṇa-ruchira-mangura 2 pattanavatya [m] vasumaty&[rn] pravarttamána-Mapa-vausa-rajya-kald tryadhik-asitty.
utta[ra] . . . 3 Maudgal-amala-kuld gagana-tala-sitadidhiti-nivåte site-charitê Paramamahêsvara
éri-Sagguyayyando 4 såsati dakshiņa-TÔ8alya[m] Vorttandkåt-paramadêvat-adhidaivata-bri-paramabhatta
raka-sharapa-kamal-amala-khau5 ņir-hår-adhigama-pratihata(h)-kaliyag-agata-darita-niohayah(y)
mahârâjaSivarajah kusalt agminn-eva 6 vishayd samupagat-Abhavishyat-såmanta-raja-rajasthaniy-oparika-kumârâmâtya
tadáyuktaka-mahåmahattara7 vpihadbhôgikadhikaranány=êvá r&japadopajivi yatharha[m] śrávayati månayati cha
viditam-a[etu] bhavatam yasth=k)8 ttra vishaye sambaddha-Tandralvalue-gråma (mo) Vôrttanôk-[&vavâss
gê(P)]hattô=smabhiḥ måtâpittrôr-áticanagcha puny-- 9 bhivriddhaya salila-dhårá-pûrvyakdņ=&chandr-Arka-sama-kaliy. Akshayanivi(nivi)
dharmmênalo nånå-gôttra
1 Above, Vol. II, p. 933.
Above, Vol. II., p. 346. [The locality cannot be far from Tosall, which we know from Afka's Dhauli edicts, and which must be located in the neighbourhood of Dhauli. It seems more likely to explain arminsta vishayd as Tosalt-vishayd than as Vérttan kapishayd.-8. K.)
. [It has proved impossible to get good impressions of the plate. The subjoined reproductions are the best that could be obtained.-S. K.]
* Expressed by a symbol.
[I am unable to see Sagguyayyand, but I cannot suggest a satisfactory reading, I think I see sambhdya y&>»*-.-8. K.) (I read .dmala-frani..-8. K.)
[I see Tundilualuja-gráma.-8. K.] [I read Vorttandké chsdtása .. . but cannot make out the rest.-9. K.) 10 Read -kalan-akakaya.. Compare above, Vol. VI., p. 139; Vol. VII., p. 101, note 1.
