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No. 35] RATANPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE (KALACHURI] YEAR 915
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49 hou o gafaarattaa: una mena a 42 ora 50 TAHE: [1*] warnt aggurat e aria uretant51 wafa: [720*] Ferite fare tue afe52 Pirulagte mi farfegagna situat 53 [#]yraffaufilluargaagaafar Taquar54 [at]ataxia opp ån[*] age o
TRANSLATION (Lines 28-36.) And now the king Sri Govindarāja alias Prabhutavarsha the Paramisvara, the overlord of the feudatory kings, who has acquired (the right to the use of all the (five) musical instruments, commands all the future kings :
"Be it known to you (all) that, for the enhancement of the religious merit and renown of Our parents and Ourself, in this world and the next, the village Usauņaka situated in the Vāhāula (sub-division of eighty-four (villages), has been granted (by U8) with libation of water, on the Mahā. Vaisakhi day, for the performance of the rites such as Bali, Charu, Vaišvadēva, Agnihotra, Kratu, etc., to the Brahmin Bhõbhika, son of Bhatta Jaya, of the Atri götra, a religious student of Samavēda, residing in the village Charmmanihauha, an immigrant from the Gauda country, with all the assessments and the proceeds of the punishments for) faults and ten offences, limited by the boundaries of this village), without any interference from the royal officers, according to the customs of the cultivable and uncultivable lands (bhūmi-chchhidra-nyāyēna), in which, while being enjoyed, nobody should cause any hindrance."
(Lines 51-54.) This is the sign-manual of the illustrious Govindaraja himself, son of the illustrious Indrarājadēva. This charter has been written by me, Jajjulla, son of Padmanābha, the officer in charge of war and treaties.
(Dated this) the seventh (day) of the dark half of the month of) Vaisakha when sovon hundred and thirty two years had elapsed since the time of the Saka king.
No. 35.-RATANPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF PRITHVIDEVA II;
THE [KALACHURI] YEAR 915
By Prof. V. V. MIRASHI, M. A., NAGPUR This inscription was brought to notice as early as 1825 by Sir (then Mr.) Richard Jenkins who published a short account of it in the Asiatic Researcher, Vol. XV, pp. 504-5. It has since
1 An ornamental device precedes the dandas. * There is a sign after va, which cannot he taken for that of 6. Read . • There is a blank space for one akshara after .
• Jenking' account of this record was based on the report of his assistant Sastrt Vinayakrao Anandrao Aurangabadkar who examined this and some other records at Sirpur, Raipur and Ratenpur. The mantiscript of his report written in the Mödl characters is still preserved in the India Office Library, London. An autograph copy of it was kindly supplied to me by the Librarian, Dr. H. N. Randle. As shown below, the report is incorrect in several places,
