Epigraphia Indica Vol 19

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

Page 60

No. 5.]
ANTIRIGAM PLATES OF JAYA-BHANJA-DEVA.
(Ll. 43-49) they who find sustenance at his lotus-feet, both Bhayipayya-Nayaka the high minister and controller of taxes and Malapayya-Nayaka the krenikara of the province of Miriñje, for the personal enjoyment of the god Madhavēévara (whose temple was) constructed by the baron Madirajayya, the sheriff of Seḍambal, and for the provision of food to the ascetics of that place, on Thursday, the 14th of the dark fortnight of Magha in the cyclic year Budhirōdgari, the 1088th (year) of the Saka era, on the occasion of the Sivaratri festival, laved the feet of Sövarasi Siddhantideva, prior of the monastery of the god, and with pouring of water granted the following dues :
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(Ll. 49-54) For the shops built within the parish east of the river on the east of Seḍambal, the oilmen (and) shopkeepers shall give in the paddy-market, excluding the household-tax, half the takings within the market inclusive of a koda of oil, the pomma on loads of betel leaves and the petty dues, and the tolls on bags of the various kinds of grain; on each bullock's load of areca-nuts filled up there from the antara-vatta (they shall give) one hundred and fifty superior nuts; the toll-collectors on duty in the revenue-office shall give every month an eighth on each sauvarna coin.
(Ll. 54-59: a Kanarese commonitory formula of the usual type.)
No. 5.-ANTIRIGAM PLATES OF JAYA-BHANJA-DEVA, BY THE LATE TARINI CHARAN RATH, B.A.
These three copper-plates were unearthed by a ryot while cultivating a piece of waste land situated in the village of Antirigam of Pärva-khanda, Chatrapur Division, Ganjam District, Madras Presidency. A similar set of three other plates was also discovered along with these which will be edited separately.
The plates measure 7 inches by 3 inches, their thickness being about of an inch. Each plate has a circular hole on its left side through which passes a copper ring of a diameter of 2 inches, from which the plates are suspended. The two ends of the ring are not in this case secured at the bottom of an oval or circular seal as usual. We have here a lump of copper of a rather peculiar conical shape, 13. inches high, which holds the two ends of the ring together. This mass of copper is at its bottom in shape a cube, measuring about an inch on each side and has at the top a pot-shaped finial marked by a number of circular ridges. On one side of the cube is the following inscription, written in two lines:
Śrimad-subha Jadeva-nripatiḥ
The word 'Jadova' in the beginning of the second line is obviously a mistake for 'Jayadeva,' the name of the king who made the grant. The first and third plates are inscribed on one side only, while the second or middle plate has inscription both on the obverse and reverse. The edges of the plates are not raised into rims. The inner side of the first plate and the two sides of the second plate have nine lines on each of them, while the inner side of the third or last plate contains ten lines, the total number of lines of the inscription being thus 37. The inscription is clear and the letters are fairly big in size. The plates with the ring weigh 72 tolas
1 [It is very unlikely that the name of the king would be written Jadeva by mistake for Jayadeva. The suffix bhanja which is the characteristic title of the rulers of the Bhañja dynasty would in no case have been omitted. Hence I think we must read Bhamjadeva together; and what is read in the beginning as frimades is probably frimad-Yata-. Besides, the last akshara in the first line clearly reads bhath. Thus we will have the name Yasa-Bhanjadora which according to the author himself was another name of Jaya-Bhañjadova; see below page 43 -Ed.]