Epigraphia Indica Vol 21

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

Page 24

No. 2.) ARJUNAVADA INSCRIPTION OF YADAVA KANNARA: SAKA 1182.
10 Gurvv-ayatano guru . . . pratishthäpito' n-ai11 tat-khyāty-artham-abhili[kh]ya[tē] [atha) mahēsvarāņām' vi12 jñaptik-kriyatē sambodhanam cha yathā-kā[lē]n-achäryyā13 nāṁ parigraham-iti matvā visanka[m] pājā-pura14 skāra[m] parigraha-pāripālyam kuryyād-iti vijñaptir-iti [1] 15 Yas-cha kirty-abhidrāham kuryy[á]d-yas-ch-abhilikhitam-uparyy-adho 16 vão sa parchabhir-mah[a]pāta kair-upa pätakais-cha samyuktas=syāt[*] 17 Jayati cha bhagavā[n-Dandah]' rudra-dando=gra-[nā]yako nitya[m]
TRANSLATION. Accomplished.
(L1, 1-5). In the ..... year-of the victorious reign of the Bhaffäraka Maharaja Rājādhirāja, the illustrious Chandragupta, the good son of the Bhattāraka Mahārāja Rājādhiraja, the illustrious Samudragupta-on the Afth of the bright half of the First (Ashādha) of the year 61 following the Gupta era.
(L1. 5-10). On this aforesaid (tithi), (the Lingas) Upamitēsvara and Kapilēévara (comprising the portraits of the teachers were installed in the Teachers' Shrine, Arya Uditāchäryya, tenth from the Bhagavat Kusika, fourth from the Bhagavat Parabara, & stainless disciple's disciple of the Bhagavat Upamita (and) a stainless disciple of the Bhagavat Kapila, for the commemoration of the preceptors and for the augmentation of the religious merit of self.
(Ll. 10-16). (It is) not written for my own fame, but for beseeching the worshippers of Mahēsvara. And it is an address to those who are) the Acharyyas for the time being. Thinking them to be their own property, they should preserve, worship, and honour (them) 88 (their oron) property. This is the request. Whosoever will do harm to these memorials or (destroy) the writing above or below, shall be possessed of the five great sins and the five minor sins.
(L. 17). And may divine Danda be always victorious, whose staff is terrific and who is the foremost leader.
No. 2.-ARJUNAVADA INSCRIPTION OF YADAVA KANNARA: SAKA 1189.
BY 8. SRIKANTHA SASTRI, M.A., MYSORE. This inscription was first discovered by Rao Sahib P. G. Halakatti of Bijipur who kindly sent me an ink-impression of it. It is engraved on a stone-slab set up in the temple of HälsSamkaralinga at Arjunavāda, a village, & mile and a half distant from Hukēri in the Belgaum district of the Bombay Presidency. The stone measures 9 ft. 10 in. by 1 ft. 8 in. The writing covers & space of 6 ft. 8 in. At the top, the figures of the linga, Nandin, and a
* This may perhaps be restored to guru-pratima-yutan.
* The 8 in 1 is quite clear at the back of the uninked estampage. Correct the word, however, into pratiek. thapitan,
* Read mahéboardparh. * Read wchchhindyat or some such word stor ed.
Road bhagacdn-Dandal aa.
• To express order of descent, the ablative case is employed. See the remarks of Dr. Hirananda Sustel. above, Vol XIX, p. 58.
For binti (u. 9 and 15) which is distinguished from bhyati (1. 11) - J. 7. Feet's note 6 in Gupta Inscri p. 212.