Book Title: Epigraphia Indica Vol 11
Author(s): E Hultzsch
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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________________ 220 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. [Vol. XI. claims to have ruled the A parānta country? (1.2). This statement furnishes an interesting confirmation of two verses of Kalidasa's Raghuvainsa (iv. 58 f.), where the mountain Trikāta, from which the designation of the Traikitaka family most be derived, is placed in the territory of the king of Aparānta. According to the Vaijayanti (ed. Oppert, p. 37, verse 35), which is quoted by Mallinātha on Raghuvara, iv. 53, the chief place of Aparānta senms to have been Sarpāraka, the modern sopara, with which I feel tempted to identify Aniruddhapura, the oapital of the Traikatakas. The object of Vyag brasēna's grant was the hamlet Purohitapallika in the Iksharaki district (ahāra, 1. 8), which I am unable to identify. From the name given to the hamlet we may perhapa infer that the donee, Nigasarman (1. 10), was the king's family priest (prurohita). The date of the grant was the 15th tithi of the bright fortnight of Karttiks in the year 241 of au unspecified era (1. 18). As we know from coins that Vyaghrabona was the son of Dahrasõna, whose Pärdi plates are dated in [Kalachuri-]Samvat 207, the date of the new inscription must be also referred to the Kalachuri era of A.D. 240, and the specified month places the record in A.D.480 or 491. The following short pedigree comprises all that we know from coins and inscriptions regarding the Traikutaka kings of Aparanta, residing at Aniruddhapura: Mahārāja Indradatta. Mahārāja Dahrasēna (A.D. 456 or 457). Mahārāja Vyāghrasēna (A.D. 490 or 491). TEXT.4 First Plate ; Second Side. 1 स्वस्ति विजयानिरुडपुराचे कूटकान[१] मातापिपादानुख्यातो भगवत्पादकमकरकर गतक्रमागत2 स्फीतापरान्तादिदेशपतिरपरिमितनृपतिनतचरणकमलस्वभुजपरिपालनप्रता3 पाधिगतप्रचुरद्रविणविवाणनावाप्तसदिग्व्यापिशुक्लयमाशारदरजनिकरकचिरवप4 रनद्यकालीनपुरुषविशेषसदशोदारचरितस्मुचरितनिदर्शनार्थमिव निर्मित प्रतिBहतसामन्तारातिरन्यनरपतिप्रतिविशिष्टस्खवङ्गालङ्कारभूत प्रभूतप्रवीरसाधना6 धिष्ठितदुर्गनगरसागरमागरगम्भीरगिरिगुरुस्थिरप्रकृति प्रकतिजनमनोहर प्राच F uii. I See Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 173, and Prof. Rapaon's Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty, etc., * Op. oit. p. ellx and note 8. See above, Vol. X. p. 62 and notu 6. • From the original copper-pletes. • Besd °चा.

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