Indian Antiquary Vol 06

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 73

FEBRUARY, 1877.]
THREE MALWA INSCRIPTIONS.
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Sarupa Narayana. This grant has already been tion, which is dated Ashâdha Sukla Ekadasi of translated and commented on by Dr. FitzEd- the Samvat year 1190, or 1123-4 A.D. ward Hall in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. vol. XXX. The numerale (if it be not meant for "On"), pp. 195-210.
and the figure of Garuda holding the hooded The second copper-plate inscription I got at snake, in the first two inscriptions, are not, Ujjain through the kindness of the local autho- I presume, without significance. The numerrities there. It is signed by the famous Raja al may suggest that the writers of the gran Bhoja of Dhår, and purports to be a grant were Buddhists, the 9 standing for the wellof a village by name Vîrâ naka to a certain known nine pranáms or salutations to the Brahman of the country of Rådhå Sura- deities of the followers of Buddha;t and the sanga Karnata, by name Dhanapati Bhatta, figure of Garuda, I conjecture, signifies that the who had come into Malwa from Srivad a, in king whose royal device it is, is of the line of the country or division of Vellu Valla. This the Sesha ri kings of Ujjain or Malwe inscription also is on two plates of copper the hereditary enemies of S Aliv å hana of joined together by two rings of copper. Each Pratishthân a or Paithana on the Godàof the plates measures 12 inches by 8.
variin other words, the successors or descendThis second grant connects itself with the ants of the famous, but almost fabulous, Vikrafirst by enumerating some of the kings men- maditya of Avanti or Ujjain. I tioned in the first grant, thus enhancing the It may be remarked of these inscriptions that value of both. It was turned up by a farmer they were found in or near the identical places
while digging in his field, which adjoins a small which they respectively purport to give away stream now called Någaj hari, which must Vakpati Raja Deva may or may not have apparently be the same as the Nagadraha
been the grandfather of Bhoja, and my reason mentioned in the grant. This stream is included for doubt is that the grandfather of Bhoja is said within the holy Panchakroshi of Ujjain. to be (vide Asiatic Researches, vol. IX. p. 166) The date of this inscription is Chaitra Suddhi one Mahendra PAIS As this statement is not, Chaturdasi of the Samvat year 1078, i.e. 1021 however, corroborated by any satisfactory eviA.D.; the date of the grant is Magha Asitatritiya dence, I incline to the belief that Vâkpati was of the same year.
the grandfather of Bhoja, and that the line of The third inscription is engraved on a slab kings as given in this and the other inscriptions of stone measuring about 20 inches by 14, is in the order of natural descent from father to which is now let into the wall of a newly son, or of those who stood to each other in built temple at Ing noda, in the territory that relation by the rite of adoption. The very of the junior Raja of Devas. It pur- words made use of in the documents-"465ports to be a grant of a village, called Aga- "-meditating on the feet of, "HACETTsiya ka towards the expenses of a temple of 972 g o ta"- for the extension of the Mahadeva by name Gohadeśvara. Sri Vija- merits of mother and father (= ancestors) as yap a la de va is the grantor of this inscrip- well as of ourselves'--tends to lead to the
I am told that they were exhumed at Dharampuri-60 Lassen, Alterthumskunde III. 822-869, and 1100, miles froin Indor.
a list of the kings of Udayapura (30 miles N. F. of Bilsa)
from which the following is an extract:+ at afsaTT, TT TT, TT TT &c.
1. Vairisiūba, after A.D. 921. 1 The Bhairagis called Naths sing a song of Bhartsi.
2. Siyaka, son of V. which is a strange mixture of kings and places. The song says there was a marriage between Rani Pingala, whom it 3. Munja, son of S., after A.D. 961. makes the daughter of Bhoja, and the Raja Bharti of
4. Siñharija, younger br. of M, after about 965. Ujjain. Bhartri is asked to accept the hand of Pingala by
5. Bhoja, son of S., after A.D. 997 a Brahman on the part of Bhoja. Bharti wants to know the family and race of the damsel. The reply of the Brah- Lassen's list was founded on the 'Ain.i-Albari, vol. II. man, which is the only true and valuable assertion in the
pp. 46-50, and inscriptions known when he wrote, 20d whole song, is
omita Vákpati Raja. Dr. Hall (Jour. .4s. Soc. Beng. vol.
XXX. pp. 199-205) continues the list thus:जात बतलाई सिसीद्याकी । गजमनधारक पोवारकी।।
6. Udayaditya, son of Bhoja. TIGEST THÈT &c. &c.
7. Naravarman, son of U., A.D. 1104-1133.
8. Yakovarman, son of N., A.D. 1133-1143 This song supports the view I have taken above. Garda- 9. Jayavarman, son of Y. bhasena, as the reader will easily remember, is the reputed 10. Vindbyavarman, son of J. father of the Vikram Mitya, who is supposed to have reigned 11. Subhatavarman, son of V. at Ujjain 465 A.D.
12. Arjuna, son of S., A.D. 1210-1225.--En.