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No. 16.)
TWO COPPER-PLATE GRANTS FROM INDORE.
291
(Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 318), and Palitana Plate of Dhruvasēna I (Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, p. 110), with a distinct curve at the foot, which may be traced in the form in line 28 of the first inscription, and line 27 of the second. The inscription refers itself to the reign of Maharaja Bhulunda. Like Svimidäsa, he bore the epithet parama-bhattaraka-pad-dnuddhyato, and was therefore, probably, a mere feudatory chief. The inscription is dated in the year 107, withont referenoe to any specific era. As has already been remarked, the year 107 may be referred to the Gupta era; for the arguments which seem to exclude the alternative hypotheses of local era' and 'regnal year ' in the case of the date of the first inscription are equally, or rather more strongly, applicable here. The date would therefore be equivalent to 426-7 A.D.
The purport of the inscription is similar to that of the first. The phraseology being the same, no separate translation is necessary. I am unable to identify the localities mentioned in the inscription. [The grant is a brahmad@ya, made to Kusåraka, a Brahman of the Bharadvaja gðtra, apparently at the request of one Atishādhanandi (Ashādhanandi). The land was situated in the Rulladana (Arulladana P) Simā, and consisted of a farm held by one Khuddataka together with the surrounding kachchha. On the word patti here used see Fleet, Gupta Inscriptions, p. 104, n. 10, and Ep. Ind., Voll. III, p. 285 n., VIII, p. 236 n. 2, IX, p. 169 n. 4.-Ed.)
TEXT.
1 Valkhäb
parama-bhattaraka-päd-anuddhyāto
mahārāja-Bhulundaḥ
sämäjñäpn
yati
2 garyvån-v-ismat-santakan-i yuktakād=Vijñātam=&sta vaḥ samanujanimo-sya 3 Bharadvaja-sa-gotra-Kusaraka-Brähmaṇasya Anshādhaņandi-vijñäpyi-rulla 4 dana-simāyā h Khuddataka-pratyaya-kshötra-pațţi saha mandala-kachchhöna brah
madēya5 m-abhigam-X-chandr-arka-täraka-kalinanm=anvaya-bhojyar bhogay-aivam-idāni6 m-asy-ismübhih-kpit-anajñasy Ochitāyas brahmadēya-bhuktyä bhuñjata krisha7 tas-cha? Barvvair=ēv=āsmat-pakshiyai samanumanta vyam 8 Pratihära-Skando datakaḥ varshā 100, 7, phalgu ba 10, 2 9 (In margin) Må(ma)hārāja-Bhuluņdasya
No. 17.-DAMOH HINDI INSCRIPTION OF MAHMUD SHAH II OF MALWA:
(VIKRAMA-) SAMVAT 1570.
BY RAI BAHADUR HIBA LAL, B.A., OrrG. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, DAMOH.
On the 26th March 1917, during the digging of a road for laying water-pipes in the town of Damoh, the head-quarters of a district of the same name in the Central Provinces, an inscribed slab 2' xl' 8" and 5' thick was accidentally found, only a foot below the surface of the road. The Assistant Engineer, Mr. D. R. Kochar, who was in charge of the work, kindly sent the stone to me for decipherment of the inscription on it.
The record oontains 15 lines written in the Nagari character. The average size of the letters is one inch, except in the last line, where it is reduced to half, in order to bring the
1 Read Valkhat-parama. • Rend kalinaw anonga. 1 Bead krishata=cha.
* Read samajnapayati. . Read Rochitaya. . Read yait.
Read diyan • Rendah.
2 p2
