________________
No. 10.]
THE KALVAN PLATES OF YASOVARMMAN.
The inscription belongs to the Svētambara sect of the Jaina religion and is, therefore, important, for very few Jaina grants have come down to us. Herein we are informed that the Rapaka Amma, who was a chief of the Ganga family, while in the village of Muktapali, in the district of Audrahadi which consisted of eighty-four rent-free villages (Manyakapaṭṭa), after hearing the exposition of Dharmma and Adharmma from the mouth of the illustrious Acharya Ammadeva of the Svētämbara sect and having been made to understand by his teaching that the principal Jaina-dharmma gives more auspicious results than other dharmmas in this world as well as in the next, gave certain pieces of land at Mahishabuddhika in the holy tirtha of Kalakalösvara, on the occasion of a solar eclipse, on the new-moon day of Chaitra. The grant consisted of several pieces of land, the first of which measured 40 nivartanas and the second 25 nivartanas. The latter, however, appears to have been once given by a prince named Kakkapairaja. The third measured 35 nivartanas while the fourth measured two nivartanas and consisted of a flower garden. In addition to these pieces of land two oil mills (taila-ghanakas), 14 Baniya shops (Vanik-hatṭaḥ), and 14 drammas were also given to the illustrious Muni Suvratadova in the temple of the Jina in the country of Svētapada which was completely repaired (lupta-jirnnöddharam). The land, the oil mills and the shops were given to defray the expenses of worship, which are enumerated in detail (puja, abhisheka, naivedya and Chaitrapavitraka), as well as for the maintenance of the Jaina monks, who are called Rishis. The officers mentioned are Desilaka, Grāmataka, Gokulika, Chayrika (Chaurika), Saulkika (Saulkika), Damdavasika (Dandapäsika), Prätiräjyika and Mahattama. There are eight imprecatory verses at the end of the grant, which are numbered. The deed was written by the illustrious Samdhivigrahika Yögösvara of the twice-born race.
Among the places mentioned, Dhara is the modern city of Dhar, which is the capital of the native state of the same name in the Malwa Agency of Central India. Kālakālēsvara, spelt Kalakalesvara, is, as has been stated above, a temple of Siva, ten miles to the west of Kalvan, in the Nasik district of the Bombay Presidency. I am unable to identify the village of Mahishabuddhika, where the Rapaka Amma resided, and also the district of Audrahādi.
TEXT.
nirmmali
First Plate.
71
1 Svasti [*] Śrīmām (n)1-Dhārāyām Mēru-maha-giri-tumga-sring-opame Pravāmrānvayê aneka-samara-samghaṭṭa-[sa]
2 dhita-satru-paksha-vistrita-yasa(so)-dhavalita-dig-amtaralaḥ śrī- Siyakadēva-pād-ānu
dhyataḥ Sara[sva]
3 ti-mukha-tilaka-bhūta(b)
krita-kävya-mukta-siyaka-ghürmmkyita si(6î)raḥ-kavi-jana
satta(tru)-paksha
4 ári-Vakpatiräjadēva-pād-änudhyātaḥ aneka-mah-ahava-vijit-ari-jana-prathita-yasa (so).
5 krita-sakala-dharadhara-dhara-jaladhi-sīmā - śrī- Sem (Sim) dhurajadova - pad-[ā*]nu. dhyātaḥ maha-va(ba) la-prachamda-ri
6 pu-paksha-nirddarita-Karppäta-Lata-Garjjara-Chedy-a (a) dhipa - Komkaṇēsa (sa) -
prabhriti-ripu-vargga-nirddārita
1[If it goes with Dhars, we should expect Srimatyäth instead.-Ed]
Read Paramar°.
Cancel the visarga [or the oase-ending here as well as in some of the following attributes-Ed] Read-shirsagits.
