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No. 50] LODHIA PLATES OF MAHASIVAGUPTA; YEAR 57
323 Chhattisgarh Division and now iu Orissa, is the old Khadirapadra. This Khairpali is about 10 miles from Baidpāli. About a mile from Baidpāli there is a village called Jogimath where there are remains of an old temple which has already collapsed.
Unlike the Mallir plates of Maha-Sivagupta, the Lodhin plates are dated, the year being the 57th regnal year of the king. The grant was made on the full-moon day of the month of Kärttika. The donor's reign must have been a long one extending over half a century and by the time of this grant he would have been over 70 years of age. We have no clue to find out the exact equivalent of the given date in the Christian era or in any of the Indian eras.
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First Plate [*] स्वस्त्यशेषक्षितीशविद्याभ्यासविशेषासावित'महनीयन यवि. 2 नयसम्पस (त्स) म्पावितसकलविजिगीषुगुणो गुणवत्समाश्रय: प्रकृष्ट3 तरशो (शौ)य प्रज्ञाप्रभावसम्भावितमहाभ्युदयः कात्तिकेय इव कृति (ति). 4 बाससो राज्ञ: श्री (श्री) हर्षदेवस्य सु(स) नः सोमवकश (वंश) सम्भव[:*] परम5 माहेश्वरो म(मा)तापितृपादानुध्यातः श्री (श्री) मा (म) हाशि"बगुप्तराजदेव[*] कुशली 6 [प्रोणिभोगि (गी) यग्रामवैधपद्रके । ब्राह्मणान्*] सम्पु (म्पूज्य तत्प्रतिनिवासिकुटुम्बि7 नो यथाकालाध्यासिनः समाहर्तृसन्निधातृप्रभृतीनस्मत्पादोपजीविन[:*] 8 समां (4) राजपुरुषा[*] समाज्ञापयति' विदितमस्तु भवतां यया प्रामोयमस्मा
Second Plate : First side 9 भि स्प्रतिसनिधानः सोपनिधानः सर्व(+)करदानसमेतः सर्व(व)[पीडाविव10 जि (जि)तः सदशापराधः प्रतिषिद्धचाटभटप्रवेशः अस्यां कात्तिकपो (पौर्णमा
Khadirapadraka and Vaidya padraka have however been identified with the villages Khairpadar and Bojipadar respectively in the Kalahandi State by Mr. K. N. Mahipatra. (Jour. Kal. Hist. Res. Soc., Vol. II, Nos. 2-3, p. 171.)
+ From the original plates and inked estampages. DExpressed by a symbol.
* This letter looks like di in the impression. The original shows it to be correctly di. The dot soen within the medial i sign in the impression, making it into i, is due to a natural depression on the plate.
After the letter ta there are two superfluous dots after the fashion of the visarga sign. • After the letter ya also there is a superfluous visarga sign.
The medial i signs in pi and ji of vijigishu, each show faint traces of a dot within, which is superfluous. • The lower dot of the visarga is mixed up with the extreme and of the subscript r of the following lottor, pru. . Again there is a superfluous visarga sign after the letter rya.
10 The downward stroke to the right of ti is missing here as in yajña of 1. 13. It is clearly soon in jild of rajña, 1. 3 and sam-ajña payati, 1. 10.
11 The 4 of Siva shows a superfluous cross-bar, due to a flaw in the plate. 11 This danda is not necessary. BHere aandhi has not been obsorred.
