________________
164
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XXII.
identified. It was situated in the well-known Madhyadēka or Middle Country. I know, however, no place named Sõnabhadra in the above territory. Jāmbavat where the great-grandfather of Padmanabha fasted himself to death was a tartha. It is perhaps identical with the Jambutirtha mentioned in the Padmapurāna,' where there was a Siva-linga called Jāmbavantēévara which was said to have been established by the lord of bears Jambavant who helped Sri Ramachandra From the context it appears to be somewhere in the vicinity of the river Svabhramati (modern Sabarmati). Jamēra the village which was owned by the engraver Kirtidhara is probably identical with Jondra (Lat. 82-21 and Long. 21-44) on the bank of the Seonāth river just outside the south-west limit of the Janjgir tahsil.
I edit the inscription from the original plates.
TEXT. [Metres : Vv. 1,9, 12, 13, 18 and 22-35Anushtubh; vv.2 and 6Upajati%Bv.3 Sragdhard%3B vv. 4, 10, 14, 17 and 19 Sārdülavikridita; vv. 5, 7, 8, 11 and 18 Vasantatilaka ; v. 16 Malini ; v. 20 Salini ; v. 21 Aryā.]
First Plate. 1 सिचिरस्तु प्रों नमो व्र(ब)मणे । निर्गणं व्यापकं नित्यं शिवं परमकारणम ।
भावनायं परं ज्योतिस्तस्मै समणे नमः ॥१॥ 2 यदेतदप्रेसरमम्व(म्ब)रस्य ज्योतिः स पूषा पुरुषः पुराणः । पथास्य पुची
__ मनुरादिराजस्तदन्वयभूवि कात3 वीर्यः ॥२॥ देवः श्रोकार्तवीर्यः शितिपतिरभवजूषणं भूतधाचा लीचिताद्रि
वि(बि)भ्यत्तुहिनगिरिसुताने(से). 4 षसन्तोषितेस(श)म् । दोहंडाकांड सेतुप्रतिगमितमहावारिशेवाप्रवाहव्याधूतच्यक्षपूजा.'
गुरुजनितरुष वर्ष यो 6 वर्व(बबं)ध ॥२॥ तहस(१)प्रभवा नरेंद्रपतयः ख्याता: चिती यास्तेषामन्च
यभूषणं रिपुमनोविन्यस्ततापानलः । धर्म6 ध्यानधनानुसंचितयशाः स(ग) स्व(ख)स्यता सौख्यकबेयासर्वगुणान्वितः समभव
स्वी(छी)मानसौ कोशलः ॥४॥ अष्टादयारिकरिकुंभविभंगसिंहाः पुचा बभूवुरतिसौ(मौर्यपराब तस्य । समाग्रजी वृपवर
स्त्रिपुरीश चाची(सी)से(च्छे)पांच मंडलपतीन्स
1 The hill where the well-known river Son, a tributary of the Ganges, takes its rise is called Bona bhadra Cf. "Tho Son rises near the Narbadi at Amarakantak in the Maikal range, the hill on which its nominal source is located being called Sönabhadra or more commonly Sonmuod", Imperial Gazetteer, Vol. XXIII, p. 76. Mr. K. N. Dikshit kindly writes to me that sopabhadra is probably the same as Sravanabhadra to which two Brihmapa donees of the Narwhal plates of Vakpati Mulija (V. 8. 1038) belonged. Like the donee of the present plates, both of them belonged to the Vatos-gotra and had five pravaraa. He thinks that sopabhadra might be somewhere in Bihar on the bank of the Sopa or Siqabbadra.
* 01. Padmapurana (Venkstadvars Proos ed., Uttarakhanda, Adhydya 160). [Skandapundna (nama od.. Arbudakhanda, Adhydya 60), places Jambutirtha in mount Arbuda.Ed.]
• Expressed by a symbol (cf. above, Vol. XVII, p. 862). • Expressed by the letters with a dot over it.
