Epigraphia Indica Vol 19

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

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No. 4.] TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM KOLHAPUR AND MIRAJ: SAKA 1058 & 1066.31
Vol. II, p. 266, and in Kielhorn's List of Southern Inscriptions above, Vol. VII, App., No. 319 and a transcript is given in Elliot'. Collection (Vol. II, fol. 313a., of the Royal Asiatic Society's copy). The stone was found on the right side of the front of the Jnin temple of Parsvanstha near the Sukravåra gate of the town. It has a pediment rounded on the top, and containing some soulptures, vix in the middle, a Jina sitting cross-legged, with hands folded in his lap. full front, inside a shrine; a little to the proper right of this, another squatting figure, full front, with uplifted hands; still further to the right, a pitcher; on the left of the central Jina, & cow and calf; above these, the sun on left) and moon (on right). Underneath this is the inscribed area, about 3 ft. 1 in. broad and 2 ft. 21 in. high.--The character is good Kanarese of the period, with letters varying in height from tin. to 1 in. The cursive y occurs in ayvattu (1. 26), and the palatal i in pañcha- (ll. 1, 5, 33).-The language, except for the introductory Sanskrit verse, is throughout Kanarese prose, more or less in the ancient dialect in the formal titles and for the rest nearer to the medieval language. The old is not found; instead we have alid., 1. 33. Initial p in pure Kanarese and tadbhava words has become h; but still we find palam pattu on 1. 28. Lexically the record is valuable, as it contains many rare words of daily life, such as the titles of various classes of traders and other words, e.g. mudgode, 1. 10, sdsaniga and kajagära, l. 22, hasara as a measure of capacity, 11. 26, 29 f., 32, sa ngadi, 1. 27, malave, 11. 27, 28, karuso, 1. 28, birige, ibid., lanka, ibid., maravi, ibid., dandige, 11. 31, 32, and hite, 1. 32. The word dayada in the sense of rival (1. 7) is also noteworthy.
The record begins with the stanza usual in grants to Jain temples (1. 1), and then refers itself to the reign of the Silbāra Mahamanduļeśvara Gandarāditya (11. 1-5), to whom it gives the usual titles, including those of “Lord of Tagara best of cities," "scion of the lineage of Jimitav hana," and possessing the golden Garuda-banner." Then it introduces in 11. 5-10 one of his barons, the Mahasimanta Nimbadēvarasa, who among his many other titles is described as an awful rutting elephant to the beds of the lotuses the barons of Tondai," - in other words, successful in some military operations against the Topdai-mandalam - and who built in the market-place of Kavadegolla a Jain temple. Next sppears on the scene the important corporation of the Vira-Bana jas, with an enormous series of inflated selfbestowed titles of honour, and through specified representatives makes over to Srutakirtti, prior of the Rapa nåriyapa temple at Kollapura, certain revenues for the benefit of the temple at Kevadegolla (11. 10-32). A short formula (11. 32-33) winds up the document.
The date is specified on 1. 24 as: Saks 1058, Rakshasa : Karttika ba. 5; Monday. This is slightly inexact. The tithi ba. 5 was coupled with Tuesday, 29 October, A:D. 1135; but as it ended 1 h. 34 m. after mean sunrise (for Ujjain) on the Tuesday, and began 1 h. 21 m. after mean sunrise on the preceding Monday, it was current for the greater part of Monday, thongh strictly it could give its name only to the Tuesday.
The places mentioned are: Tagara, 1. 2; the nele-utdu or standing camp of Valavada, 1. 4; Kavadegolla, 11. 10, 23; Ayyavole, also styled Ahichchhatra, 11. 18, 23; Kollapura, 11. 20, 25; Mirtije, 1:20; Kandi-pattana, the town of Kündi, 1. 21; Torambage, 1. 22; Hayisige, 1, 22; Baleyavattana, 1. 23; and the tirthas, 1. 33. Tagara, as Dr. Fleet has shown, is the modern Ter, or "Thair" (see Journ. Roy. As. Soc., 1901, p. 537, and above, Vol. XII, p. 253). Valavada is not to be identified with certainty (see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 548, and Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 209). Ayyavole is now Aihole or Aivalli, in the Hungund taluka of Bijapur District. On Kollapara, now Kolhāpur, see the preceding page. Miriñje is Miraj
On the two last titles se Dr. Fleet's remarks in Dyn. Kanar. Distr., pp. 686, 538, 544-46, and above, Vol. XII, pp. 261-58. On Gandaraditya see Dyn. Kanar. Distr., pp. 547-48.
Mr. R. Sowell, who with his wonted kindness checked and supplomented my calculations of the dates in this papor, told me that the same result was reached by using the Siddhanta-romani