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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XXIII.
Raigarh Feudatory State, E. S. A. and is in the possession of the Mahākösala Historical Society at Balpur in the Bilaspur District.
No materials are available to ascertain whether the town or city of Sarabhapura was situated on the Mahanadi and whether it was ever the royal capital of the lords of Kosala. Not & single charter out of the seven sets of plates of this family known to us, mentions its donor as the lord of Kösala'. Nor does any set describe the village granted to be situated in the Kõsala kingdom. The only reference to the name 'Sarabha' is found in the Eran Posthumous Stone Pillar Inscription of Göparāja, dated in the Gupta year 191 (A. D. 510-511), in which he is stated to be the daughter's son of one Sarabharāja.
The present charter records the royal confirmation of the grant of a village named Sivilingaka situated in the Tosadda-bhukti, by the Pratihara Bhögilla. The particulars of the donees and their shares in the village are as follows: (1) Yajñasvimin of Kâtyāyana-yötra, a student of the Madhyandina-sakha of the white Yajurvēda; one
share and a half. (2) Kumiravatsa of Bhiradvāja-götra , (3) Yajñagvāmin of Atreya-gotra, a student of the Kaņva-bakha of the white ono share each.
Yajurveda. . . . . . . . . . . (4) Višāktasvimin of Katyayana-gðlra . . (5) Golasvåmin of Kausika-gotra, a student of the Mädhyandina-sakha . . (6) Dimodarasvamin, same as above. . .
share each. (7) Dámasvamin, same as above . . . . (8) Pañchälisvåmin of Bhäradvaja-golra . . (9) Dikshita Ayanika of Bhäradvāja-götra . .
Of the geographical names Tosadda may be the Tõsarā village in the Patna Stato, E. S. A. Prof. V. V. Mirashi identifies Tõsadda with Tusdä near Dumarpalli about 30 miles to the south-east of Arang. Sivilingaka is not traceable near about Arang and Sirpur (old Sripura),
I edit the inscription from the original plates.
TEXT.
First Plate. 1 tafe [hafaaHTH THETANCHI2 सेकाम्बुधौतपादयुगलो रिपविलासिनोसीमन्तोहरणहेतु3 वसुवसुधागोपद परममागवतो मातापितपादानुध्यात4 श्रीमहासुदेवराजः तोस(होभनीयशिविलिाके प्रतिवासि6 कुटम्बिनसामानापयति । विदितमस्त वो यथायं ग्राम
Second Plate; First Side. स्त (स्त्रि)दयपतिसदनसुखप्रतिष्ठा[क]रो यावद्रविशथिताराकिरणप्रति
1 Ink-impressions of this inscription were also kindly supplied to me by Mr. M. A. Saboor of the Nigpur Museum, through Prof. V. V. Mirashi of the Nagpur University. I am indebted to Prof. Mirashi for very valuable suggestions towards the correct reading and interpretation of certain portions in the text.
* Expressed by a symbol. • The engraver had begun to incise ma after pa, but later on correoted it into a. . The subscripts appears like the sign of medial ri,
This mark of punotuation is shown by two dota.
