Indian Antiquary Vol 06

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 77

FEBRUARY, 1872.]
THREE MALWA INSCRIPTIONS.
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of Bhoja is, unfortunately, not yet satisfactorily lieved was a very short one, and deduct eight ascertained. Lassen places his reign between years from it, we get the year 986 as that of 997 and 1053. But the only certain date in his Bhoja's birth, and again if we add eighteen reign is the year 1043, in which his karana, the years to this time we get the year 1004 as Rajmriganka, is dated. My reasons for placing that of Bhoja's accession to the throne. Add him later are, firstly, that Bilhana states that about fifty-five years to this--Bhoja is said to during Bhoja's reign, Somesvara I. (1040-1069) | have reigned 55 years and some months*-and took Dhârâ by storm, and secondly that Kal. we get the year 1059 as that of Bhoja's death, haņa asserts (Rájatarangini vii. 259) that Bhoja surely within a few years of the real dates. and Kshiti. Raja or Kshiti Pati were, after 1062, | There remain now about 19 years, in which we the only true friends of the poets, &c..
must place part at least of Vakpati's reign, Now the date of our inscription is Samvat 1078, and the whole of Sindhu Raja's. Chaitra Sudi Chatturdashi, i.e. A.D. 1022, and The two inscriptions taken together give the it is evident that the Rajmrigánka was written following line of kings :nearly twenty-one years after the date of the pre- | 1 Krishna Raja Deva. sent grant, which, there is reason to suppose, was drawn after Bhoja had attained indisputed au
--2 Vaira Sinha Deva. thority in the state. Let us now suppose that
--13 Siyaka Deva. this happened in his eighteenth year, according to the provision of the Hindu Law in such cases.
|-14 Vakpati Raja Deva. But we have further aid ; for the Jain poet
- A mitagati, in his work called the Subha
Sindhu Raja Deva. shitaratnasandoha, says that he composed it in
6 Bhoja Deva. the Sanvat year 1050 (994 A.D.), when Raja Munja was reigning. We know also that I do not know much about the kings mentioned when Sindhu Raja, the father of Bhoja, died, the | in the third inscription. Malwa, at and before latter was a minor of some eight years only. the time of the Muhammadan invasion, was If we take now the year 994 A.D. as the first | split into a number of small kingdoms, and of Munja's regency, which it is generally be- | the kings in this grant may be some of them.
I.--Vákpati's Inscription.
1st Plate. 1 ओ याः स्फूजत्फणभृद्विषानलमिलढूमप्रभाः प्रोलसन्मूर्धाबद्धशशाङ्ककोटिघटिता याः सै
डिकेयोपमाः ।। याश्चंचगिरिजाकपोललुलिताः कस्तूरिकाविभ्रमास्ताः श्रीकण्ठकठोरकण्ठरुचयः
श्रेयान्सि पुष्णन्तु वः ॥ यलक्ष्मीवदनेन्दुना न सुखितं यन्नाऽऽतिम्वारिधेर्वारा यन्न निजेन नाभिसर• सीपोन शान्तिकृतं । यच्छेषाहिफणासहस्रमधुरश्वासैन चाऽऽश्वासितं तद्राधाविरहातुरं मुररिपोर्खे
लद्वपुः पातु वः ॥ परमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरश्रीकृष्णराजदेवपादानुध्यातपरमभ• डारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वर श्रीवैरिसिङ्गदेवपादानुध्यातपरमभट्टारकः महाराजाधिरा7 जपरमेश्वर
श्रीसीयकदेवपादानुध्यातपरमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरश्रीमदमोघवर्षदेवापराभिधानश्रीमद्वाक्पतिराजदेवपृथ्वीवल्लभश्रीवल्लभनरेन्द्रदेवः कुशली ॥ श्रीन१र्मदातटे गर्दभपानीयभोगे गईभपानीयसम्बद्धिनी उत्तरस्यां दिशि पिप्परिकानाम्ना तडारे स
मुपगतान्समस्तराजपुरुषान्ब्राह्मणोत्तरान्प्रतिवासिपट्टकिलजनपदादींश्च बोधयत्यस्तु का स" विदितं । यथा तडारोऽयमस्माभिराघाटा: पूर्वस्यां दिशि । अगारवाहला मर्यादा । तथो उत्तरस्यां " दिशि निखिलिकासत्कगायासमायता सा मर्यादा । तथा पश्चिमदिशौ गईभनदी मर्यादा। त. 15 था दक्षिणस्यां दिशौ श्रीपिसाचदेवत्तिर्यमर्यादा । एवं चतुराघाटोपलक्षिताभिरेकतुंशसा•पंचाशत् पंचवर्षाणि सप्तमासा दिनत्रयं राज्ञो भोजस्य भोक्तव्यं | + Read सम्बन्धिनिः Read बोधयति । अस्तु व: पचाच यवनो भवेत् , 55 years, 7 months, and a days. Hond दिशि