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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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suvarna was a major sacrifice ranking in importance with Agnishtöma, Akvamedha, Rajasuya and the like is clear from two passages from Valmiki's Rāmāyana. One of them states that during Rama's peaceful rule hundreds of Asvamedha and Bahusuvarna sacrifices were performed. The other relates that Meghanada performed the Agnishtōma, Asvamedha, Bahusuvarnaka, Rajasuya, Gōmedha, Vaishnava and Maheśvara sacrifices. Pulakesin I (6th century A.D.), and Kirtivarman I (6th century A.D.) of the Chalukya family of Badāmi performed the Bahusuvarna. The Vishnukundins also performed it. Outside India king Mulavarman of Borneo (c. 4-5th century A. D.) set up a memorial yupa pillar commemorating his celebration of the sacrifice. Among the Pallavas, Simhavarman of the present inscription appears to be the only king to have done it. The charters of the Pallavas do not attribute the performance of this sacrifice to Narasimhavarman with whom our Simhavarman has been sought to be identified, nor to any other king of the dynasty, though speaking generally, they say that the Pallavas performed many sacrifices.
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First side
1 taha-praja-vipal-lavā[nä*]
2 m Pallavānām-anvayē Vishva
3 ksēna iva Vrishṇīnām=a..
4 nm anugraham-atiśay....
Second side
1 [vi] jayasy-ayam-ēva maha[ha] sainya
2 dvipo daśāśvamedha-bahusuvarņṇa
3 kratu-yāji Dēva[b] Śrī-Simha
4 varmmā pratapa iva mürttim[än*]
5
6
Vana-manda.
1 supranita-danḍēna
2 punar-idha dvijanmasu vi..
3.sarvvasva pratipi
4
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Third side
No. 14.-SOHNAG TERRACOTTA SEAL OF AVANTIVARMAN MADHO SARUP VATS, AGRA
In September, 1945, the Collector of Gorakhpur informed the Secretary to Government, United Provinces, Public Works Department, Lucknow, of the find of a terracotta seal in the village Sohnag, Police Station Lar, Tahsil Salempur of the Gorakhpur District, by one Tapeshar Rai, while digging in the fields, and this information was kindly conveyed to me by the Additional Assistant Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, United Provinces, in October 1945. The District Magistrate, Deoria, sent me the above-mentioned seal in June 1946, adding
Balakanda, I, 95; Uttarakanda, XXV, 8-9. I am obliged to Dr. Chhabra for these references. See also his article on Yüpa inscriptions in India Antiqua, Leyden (1947), p. 82.
2 Fleet: Bom. Gaz. Vol. I, pt. II, p. 344-5: above, Vol. XXVII, p. 39,text l. 6.
Above, Vol. IV, p. 196, text, 1. 4.
Vogel, op. cit.
Read punar-iha or punar-idam.
