Epigraphia Indica Vol 29

Author(s): Hirananda Shastri
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
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were situated respectively in Amalakshuddunga within the Phänita vithi (subdivision), in Shattapāņāyichatra incorporating Panchakandaka within the Pundarikā mandala (smaller district or its part), and in the Panchanagari vishaya (district). Of these, the Pañchanagari vishaya no doubt had its headquarters at the city of the same name whence the Baigram plate was issued. We have elsewhere suggested that this city is possibly the same as Ptolemey's Pentapolis and is no other than modern Pañohbibi in the Bogra District. The bhukti (province) of Pundravardhana, identified with modern Mahästhan in the Bogra District, originally comprised northern Bengal, although in later times its jurisdiction is known sometimes to have extended over certain parts of south-eastern and southern Bengal. The village of Poshali, whence the family of the engraver hailed, seems to be the same as the Pôshall galli of the Radhiya Brāhmaṇas of Bengal. The village has been identified with modern Poshēlā about 5 miles to the south-east of Mangalkot in the Burdwan District of West Bengal, although little can be said in favour of the identification.
TEXT (Metres : Verses 1, 8 Sragdharā; verses 2, 3, 6 Sārdülavikridita ; verses 4, 7, 10 Vasantatilaki; Verse 5 Aryā ; verse 9 Indravajrā ; verse 11 Mălini ; verse 12 Mandākrānta ; verses '3-17, 20, 21 Anushfubh ; verse 18 Salini ; verse 19 Pushpitāgrā.]
Obverse 1 Niocll*) (Siddham|| ] Svasti (11) Maitrin-käruņya-ratna-pramudita-hridayah prēyasi[m] ni' 2 sandadhanaḥ samyak-samvõ(mbo)dhi-vidya-sarid-amala-ja3 la-kshälit-ājñāna-pankaḥ | jitvi yaḥ [kāma*]käri-prabha4 vam-abhibhavam sālvatim=prāpa sänti[m] sa brima5 l-Lö(l-Lö)kanātho jayati dasa-va(ba)lo='nyas=cha Gopa6 ladēvaḥ || [1] Lakshmi-janma-nikētanam sama[ka]ro võdhum ksha7 maḥ kshma-bharam paksha-chchhēda-bhayād=upasthitavatām=ēk-asrayo bhūbhšitām
maryādā-paripālan-aika-nirataḥ saury-als8 yo=smād=abhūd=dugdh-ambhodhi-viläsa-häsi-mahimā sri-Dharmmapālo nfipah | [2*] Rå
masy-ēva grihīta-satya-tapasas-tasy-inurūpo 9 gunaiḥ Saumitrēr=udapädi tulya-mahima Väkpala-nām=ānujah [l*) yah sriman=naya-vikram
aika-Vasatir-bhrātuh sthitaḥ kasa10 nē kūnyāḥ katru-patākinībhir= akaröd=ēk-ātapatrā dikah || [3] Tasmād-Upēndra-charitai[r=
jagatim punānaḥ putro va(ba)bhūva vijayi 11 Jayapāla-nämă | dharma-dvishấm su(ka)mayi[ta] yudhi Dēvapalē yaḥ pūrvajē bhuvana
rajya-sukhany=8[n]aishit ! [4*] Srimän-Vigrahapala12 s=ta[t]-sūnur=Ajātasatrur-iva jātaḥ [l*) bu(sa)tru-vanitā-prasādhana-vilopi-vimal-asi-jala
dhāraḥ || [5*] Dikpālaiḥ kshiti-pālanāya da13 dhatar děhë vibhakta[nagu][A]n br[i]mantañ=janayamva(mba)bhůva tanayam Narayanam
sa prabhuḥ | yaḥ kah[7]pipatibhịh biro-mani-ruch-äslisht-a[m]ghri-pi1 Mr. Gupta is inclined to identify Pbanita with Panitual or Pinitola on the Katatoya and Amalakshuddunga with Amalgarf not far from Belwa. He also equates ganda in Sahara-ganda with the dri-ending of modern names
* Select Inscriptions, Vol. I, p. 342. • Ibid., p. 498. .N. N. Vasu. Vanger Jaffya Itihasa, Brāhmana-kaņda (Bengali), Vol. I, p. 12. . From an impression. • Niis soontraction of the word ribaddha, "registered," "endorscu." • Expressed by a symbol. • The danda is superfluous.