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No. 45] MAHADA PLATES OF SOMESVARADEVAVARMAN : YEAR 23 283 28 yo harēta vasundharāṁ(räm) sa vishthāyām krimir-bhu(r=bhūtvä pitsibhih saha pa29 chyatē|| [6*] Satyam yajña-hutam ch=aiva yat-ki[n]chid=dharma-samchayam(yah) | arddh
ängule30 na simāyā haraņēna praṇasya(sya)til [7*] Shashthir=va(shți-va)rsha-sahasrāņi 31 sa(sva)rgē vasati bhu(bhū)midaḥ||( | a(ā)kshēptā ch=ānumantā cha tēn=aiva' nara
Third Plate 32 ka[*) vrajēta(jēt|18) Nandan[ti tasya pitaraḥ pravalganti pitāmahāḥ[*] bhu(bhū)33 mi-dātā kulē jātaḥ sa nas=[tr]ātā bhavishyati [19*] Dēv-otsava-dvāda34 syä(syä)m Sömasya dinē rēvati(tih-nakshatrēņa' Sarvān=ētān=bhāvinaḥ pārthi35 vēndrān=bhūyo bhūyo yāchatē Nē[tta*]bhañjah[l*] sāmānyõ=yam dharma-sētur=nļipāņā
36 kālē ka(kā)lē pālaniyo bhavadbhiḥ [/10*] Asmin=vansē(n=vamsē) kshē(ksha)yē(ya)-kshiņā
yõ=nyō rāj[a] 37 bhavishyati | tasy=āham pāda-lagno=smi mayā dattam na lõpayeta (yēt|l) Iti kama38 la-dal-amvumbu)-[bindu*]-115(lo)lām sri(sri)yam=anuvichintya' manushya-jīvitañ=cha!
iti sakala39 m=idam=udāhți[ta*]ñcha vudhvā (buddhvā) na hi purush(ai]h para-kirttayo vilau(lo)pyāḥ||
[12*]la40 nchhitam sri-Ji(Ji)valoka-mahādēvyā | anumatam Bhatta-Arkadēvēna pra41 vēsi(si)tam pratihāra-Rāulēna anujñātam vārguli-Mahindapēna 42 [u]tkirņna | arkasālinā Napena | likhitam Sandhivigrahi(hi)-Pānā '|| Samva(Samva)t 13[||*
No. 45--MAHADA PLATES OF SOMESVARADEVAVARMAN : YEAR 23
D. C. Sircar and M. Venkataramayya, Ootacamund The above-mentioned plates were edited in this journals in 1913-4 by the late Mr. B. C. Mazumdar under the heading Mahadā Plates of Yögēśvaradēvavarman.' Since then the record has not aroused further interest among scholars, although two more charters of the same family of chiefs, to which the donor of the Mahadā plates belonged, were subsequently discovered and their contents reviewed in this journal and elsewhere. They are (1) the Patna Museum plates of Sõmēs. varadēva II' and (2) the Kumārisimhā plates of Choļakula-Sõmēsvaradēva.10 In the light of these charters, latterly discovered, it seems now possible to assign a more specific date to the Mahadā plates than what Mr. Majumdar suggested, viz., the 16th century A.C. Further it is also possible to draw certain conclusions in respect of the chronology, genealogy and history of the ruler3 represented in the above charters, the scene of whose activities lay in South Kosala with their capital at Suvarnapura (Sonepur) in Orissa.
1 Read täny=ēva. * This prose passage containing some astronomical details regarding the date of the grant is followed by verses. * Read anuchintya. • Omit iti. . The rules of sandhi have not been observed here.
Read utiraram and omit the danda. "The name appears without the third case-ending required by the context.
Above, Vol. XII, pp. 218 ff. and plate. Above, Vol. XIX, pp. 97 ff. and plate. 19 J. K. H. R. 8., Vol. I, No. 3, pp. 29 ff. and plate.
