Indian Antiquary Vol 07

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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JANDA Y, 1878.)
SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
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to the dates assigned to Chudasamâ Ananda, and it is of course possible that he may have founded Anandapura on an old site of that name, but the probabilities seem to point out that this Anandapura is too modern to have been the Anandapura of the Chinese pilgrim and the author of the Kalpa Sútra. The dates of the
Kathi chieftains are no doubt correct within a few years, as they synchronize with contemporary history, and the above sketch may illustrate the roving, daring lives led by the Kathis for successive generations in times when their band was against every man, and every man's hand against them.
SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.s., M.R.A.S.
(Continued from vol. VI., p. 142.) No. XXXIV.
time of the present inscription, the characters I have had occasion to refer, at p. 72 of the used by the Western and Eastern Châlnky a previous volume, to the separation of the Western dynasties had diverged enough for Dr. Burnell and Eastern branches of the Châlaky a family. to decide that "there is no real connexion beWith the exception of Dr. Barnell's remarks at tween them palæographically, except so far as pp. 18-20 of his South Indian Palcography, no their common origin through the Cave-characters account of the Eastern branch seems to have is in question." The chief points of distinction, been as yet published. The Elliot facsimile as noted by him, are-1, the tendency of the collection contains several grants of this dy- Eastern alphabet to preserve archaic forms; 2, nasty, and I have selected from them the pre- the greater freedom with which the Western sent inscription, the first eighteen lines of which alphabet uses cursive forms; and 3, the reare given as Plate xxv. of Dr. Burnell's book. markably square and upright character of the In preparing my transcription, I have also con- Eastern alphabet, as contrasted with the slope sulted the original plates.
given to the letters of the Western alphabet The original consists of five plates, each about from about the sixth century A.D. 7" long by 3" broad. The writing com- The present inscription is subsequent to the mences on the inside of the first plate, and ends Saka year 867 (A.D. 945-6), as it mentions that on the inside of the fifth plate. The ring, on Amma II. succeeded to the throne in that year. which they are strung, is about " thick and It records a grant by a certain Vijaya ditya; 41" in diameter. The seal is circular, about 21" but it does not explain who this person was. in diameter, and bears, at the top, a boar, However, Kollabhigan da-Vijay aditya facing to the proper left, with the moon on its was the grandfather of Amma II., and possibly right, the sun above it, and an elephant-goad the grant was made by him before his death, on its left; in the centre, the words Sri-Tri- and was recorded in writing at the time of the bhuvanáinkuća,' i.e. the elephant-goad of Sri accession of Amma II. Or, V yay aditya' Tribhuvana;' and at the bottom, an orna- may be a second name assumed by Amma II. mental device. A comparison of the facsimile The grant is of the village of Padan kalûru, plates will show that the characters of this in- in the Pennata våd i district. I do not scription are radically the same as those of the know to what part of the country these localities Kadamba and early Western Chalakya belong; nor have I any information as to where copper-plate grants and stone-tablet inscriptions the plates were discovered. that I have already published in this series, and A genealogy of the Eastern Chåluk yas, that they approximate closely to the characters with historioal notes on them, will be furnished of the later Western Châlukya and Ka- when more of their grants are ready for pubdam bastone-tablet inscriptions. But, by the lication.
Trmsription.
First plate. Svasti Srimatâm Bakala-bhuvana-samstůyamâna-Mâna vya-sagðtrâņain Hâri['] ti-putrânâm K ausiki-vara-prasada-labdha-rajyânâm Matri-gana-paripálitânân