Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

Author(s): Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 54

No. 7.]
VADNER PLATES OF BUDDHARAJA.
famous capital of the Dalarnas on the Vetravatil, the modern Bērnagar, near Bhilså. Similarly the Abhona plates of Sankaragana were issued from Ujjayini. I have thought of the possibility of identifying the latter with the modern Ujjayini, or Ujjani in the Sinnar Täluks of the Násik District, and sometime I was inclined to think that Vidiga might be the present Tisgaon in the Chandor Taluka, 3} miles from Bhäţgaon. It seems however hardly possible to derive Tisgaon from Vidisa, and I think it safer provisionally to adhere to the identifications mentioned above. The more so if Mr. Bhandarkar is right in assuming that the Katachchuris reigned at Mahishmati.
The present record is dated in words and numerical symbols on the 13th day of the bright half of Bhadrapada of the (Kalachuri) year 360. The date does not admit of complete verification. Diván Bahadar Pillai has been good enough to calculate it for me, and he has in. formed me that it might correspond to either Friday, 11th August A.D. 607, or Thursday, 29th August A.D. 608, or Tuesday, 19th August A.D. 609. I am inclined to think the last of these dates the right one.
As regards the epithets of Sankaragana, Professor Kielhorn's remark" that the anthor was acquainted with and borrowed or imitated certain epithets which are found only in some of the Gupta inscriptions' is up to the point, and this was just what occurred to me when I first read them. I would here add that the coins found at Dövļine in the Baglan Taluka of the Nasik District, but occasionally met with throughout the district and wrongly attributed to the end of the 4th century A.D. by Dr. Bhiu Dājis and others were (as is shown by Professor Rapeon), imitated from the later Gupta coins. As I intend to publish & short note on these coins, it is better that I should not dwell on them here. Suffice it to say that the Gupta inflaence can be traced in the official doonments of the Katachchuris and in the coinage of the Näsik District of about the 6th and 7th centuries A. D.
The accompanying plate has been prepared from estampages made by me in Vadněr. The owner would not consent to the plates being sent to Ootacamund for the purpose. On the whole however, the estampages are plain enough in all important places, and the passages which can, not be read with certainty can be supplied from the Sarsavņi plates.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1 Omn? gvasti [11] Vijayas kandhavárad-Vai(i)disa-vāsakżoh-chharad-apagame
prasanna-gaganatala-vimala-vipal[@] vividha-pura2 [charatnal-guna-kirana-[nikar]-avabhasits
mahāsa[t"]tv-apásraya-darllangho gämbhiryyavati sthityannpålanapard mahodadha3 vaiva (Katajchohuriņām-[anvaye sakala-jana-]manoharaya c handrikay-ova
- kirtya bhuvanam=avabhåsayani janmana [ova Pasu4 pati-samajóraya-parah-kalanka-[do]sha-rabitab-kula-kumudavana-lakshmi-vibodhanas
chandramā iva Sri-Krishnarajo (yah] 5 ArrayA-visosha-lobhād-iva Hakalair=&bhigāmikair-itarais-cha gapair-apētas
sampanna-prakri(ri)ti-mandalo yathā[vat]
Cf. Möghadüta, v. 24
loc. cit. Seo Kjelhorn, Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 295, note 6. Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, pp. 296 #.
Jour. Bo. Br. R. 41. Soc., Vol. XII, p. 218; cf. Dr. Fleet's Dynasties of the Kanarose Districte of the Bombay Presidency, pp. 295 f. • Indias Coins, para. 100,
Expressed by a symbol.