Epigraphia Indica Vol 18

Author(s): H Krishna Shastri, Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(Vor. XVIII.
Eastern Chalukya dynasty, who is known to have been the younger son of the Western Chalukya king Kirtiyarman I. Consequently, Indravarman must be the actual name of the younger son of Vishnuvardhana I, who is called Indra-Bhattaraka or Indraraja in the inscriptions of his successors, and who, according to later tradition, reigned only for seven days.
The grant seems to have been made at the request of a chief named Kondivarman, and the executor of the grant seems to have been Indravarman's eldest son, who likewise bore the name Indravarman. From other inscriptions we know only of a single son of Indra-Bhattaraka or Indrartja, who succeeded to the throne as Vishnuvardhana II.
Line 28 f. contains four signatures of witnesses of the grant, each of which consists of the name of some village, followed by the word Bol. In the opinion of Rao Bahadur Krishna Sastri, Bol (for Boyalı) is the Telugu plural of Boya. In the Chendalir plates of A.D. 673, Boya ooours five times, and is once replaced by the Sanskrit word vdstavya, a resident, inhabitant." The same must be the meaning of the word Boya in a grant of Vishnuvardhana II, where a large number of donees are mentioned by name and are stated to have been Böyas, i.e.
residents,' of certain villages. In the Chendalár plates of A.D. 673 the actual names of the dones are omitted, and the expression resident of such and such a village ' is employed in the place of the donee's proper name. Similarly, the donee's grandfather, Durgasartman, receives in the subjoined grant the epithet. Irratū[r]-Boya by name' (1. 22). It might be concluded from this that Boya is the designation of a village-clerk (Karnam). But this possibility is excluded by the fact that in the above-mentioned grant of Vishnuvardhana II two different individuals, Vennisarman and Chamundisarman, are stated to have been Mārata-Boya, i.e.' resident of Mårata. In a grant of Bhima I the donee (or his grandfather) is styled Ummarakapthi-Bol, i.e. a resident of Ummara kanthi.! This use of the plural Bol suggests that the berm Bol in Alapak-BO, eto. (1.28 f.), and in Choďa-Bol (1.37) will have to be explained the honorifio plural of Boya,' a resident, inhabitant.'
Liner 19-21 contain the names of four villages which formed the boundaries of the village granted, Kondanagara. The boundary in the South was Cherupuru (1. 20). This village is perhaps identical with Cherupurs in the Plaki district, which, according to Dr. Fleet, was probably an older form of Chipiirapalle in the present Vizagapatam District. The remaining village-names I am unable to identify.
TEXT.
First Plate ; Second Side 1 Svati Ge] Srimatam(tām). sakala-bhavana-sarstāyamāna-Ma[na]vya-sago % tro m(nam) Hariti putranám(på) svåmi-Mahasena-p[AO]d-Inadhya3 tēnām (ām) Kausiki.vara-prasada-labdha-rajy[&]nām bhagavan-Nārāyana-pra4 Ida-bamāsādlita-varāba-lñchhan-ēkshana-kshana-vagikri(kri:)t- sha
1. See above, Vol. VII, Asperdix, p. 16 vnd gute 9. See my remarks, above, Vol. VIII, p. 238. . Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 287 f:
Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 188, text lithes 41 and 60. Above, Vol. V, p. 139, text line 6..
This is the actual tranding of the Chiparapalle-plate of/Vähqurudhaan I; 16 abovey. Vol. IX, p. 318, et. Vol. XII, 138,
* Ind. Ant., Vo: XX. pp. 15, 96, • Prom ink imprigione supplied by Rao Bahadur H. Krishna Sutri. . This word is onterad by the writer on the left side of line 2: