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JULY, 1878.)
SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS
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SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S., M.R.A.S.
(Continued from p. 112). No. XL.
nasty, anterior to the separation of the Western TN the Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. III., and the Eastern branches. The name of the 1 Part II, p. 203, there is a paper by Major. dynasty is here spelt Chalik ya.' The first General Sir George LeGrand Jacob on seven king mentioned is Vallabh a-the Puli. copper-plate grants dug up in April, 1848, at kobi-Vallabha or Pulikogi I. of my Nerûr in the Kudal' division of the Sawant previous inscriptions of this dynasty. The wadi State. The originals belong to the India second is his youngest son, Mangala-the Office Library, from which I have obtained Mangalia or Mangaliśvara of my them to prepare reviset transcriptions and trans- previous inscriptions. No mention is made in lations.
this grant of Mangala's elder brother Kirt The third of these grants is the earliest of the tivermål. The donor is Mangala; and set. It consists of three plates, about 6" long the grant made is of the village of Kundi. by 3" broad. They have no raised rim for the vâ taka in the district of the Konka na s. purpose of protecting the writing, such as is the grant is not dated in any era. But spoken of by Dr. Barnell in his South Indian Mangala is spoken of as having driven out Palæography (p. 72, para. 4). The ring con-king Buddha, the son of Sam karagana, necting the plates is uncut. It is about and having slain king Svami of the Chathick, and 2'' in diameter. The seal of it has liky a family, and as these facts are not rethe representation of a boar, facing to the proper | ferred to in his stone-inscription (Ind. Ant. right. The language is Sanskrit. The charac- Vol. VI., p. 363) dated in the twelfth year of ters are square and upright, and of the same his reign, when Saka 500 had expired, I would standard as those of my Kadamba grants place the present grant slightly subsequent to (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI., p. 22), agreeing most closely. that inscription. Who these two kings, Budwith the characters of No. xxv. (id., p. 30). dha and Svå mi, were, I am not at present The grant is one of the early Chalukya dy able to suggest.
Transcription.
First plate. r' Svasti Srimatâm Svåmi-Mahasôna-pad-anudhyâtânam Mânavya-sagô[*] tråņâm Hâriti-patrâņam Chalikyånám vamse sambhůtah Mänava-pu[') råna-Ramayana-Bharat-êtihasa-kusalah
nitau
Brihaspati-samah (*) agnishtôma-vÂjapoya-pauņdarika-bahusu varnnasvamðdh-avabhritha [] snana-pavitrîkrita-sariral sva-guņair=116ka-vallabhô Vallabhah [11] Tasya pu[*] trah parama-brahmanyah para-ráshţr-ávamarddi sva-rậptré(shtrë) ngây-ânuvartti dêva-dvija['] guru-pâjâ-niratah
sakala-mahi-mandala-vyâpi-vimala-yaśaḥ
Second plate; first side. ("] sva-bhuja-bala-paråkkra (kra)m-ôpárjjit-anya-raja-vittah vsishabha-gamana-nayana-nina['1 dah samada-vara-varaņa-vilásah simha-vikramah n aya-vinaya-dana-day[") dAkshiṇya-satya-sampad=ôpôtah sakti-traya-sampannah parama-bhagavatah [TM] Mangala-rajaḥ [11] Babhau sa Vainya-pratimâna-kirttis-tamah-pramidnat-ova["') gun-Arbo-jâlaiḥ [11] Têna rajña Samkaragana-patram gaja-turaga-padâti["] kośa-bala-sampannam Buddha-râjam vidrávya Chalikya'-vamsa-sambhavam ashta["] daśa-samara-vijayinam Svâmi-raja cha hatvå samvatsara-půjyatamâyâm
Second plate; second side. ["S) KArttika-dvadasyam krit-Ôpava(vâ)sên=îrchchita-Vishnuna Kaśyapa-sagôtrasya vôda
• The Konksnas were seven in number,sapta-Konkana. The first syllable looks somewhat like chą, but this is The word is used in the plural, though without the owing, I think, only to a slip of tho engraver's tool. The numeral prefixed, in transcr. l. 10 of No. XIII. of this vowel is properly sbort. Series, Vol. V., p. 67.
