Indian Antiquary Vol 08

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 60

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[FEBRUARY, 1879.
[] kirttinâm dêva-dvija-(guru].........................(Hâ]riti-putrâņām
Mânavya-sa[gôtråņân)............
Second plate. [] ....sham bahu-(s]u[varn]n[a]“... ... ... .dakshiņ.0pôta-gu(?)"......... ['] Ga[n]g-avabhțitha-snin-odaka-pavitrikri[ta-sa]rirah DI*] Tasya putrah Sri-Kirtti
râjaḥ [*] [Tasy=âtmajaḥ Sri-Sa"][] tyásrayah Polekesi(si)-Vallabha-mahârâjah Kuva!(?)la(?) hasu".............. [") mahi-danam viprebhyah dattavan || Tadâ kâle idam-api sâsanan Varchcha(P)
sagðtra- ........ . [*] r-acharyyasya pañcha-vinsa 'ti-nivarttanâm(nam) raja-manêna kshetram dattar 01*]
Tatra pa......... ["] "...... VA(P)t()pi-grâmê............... maha-patha--...,.... Translation.
His son, Śr-Satyasraya, the Great Hail! (May there be) good fortune! Vic-King Polek ési-Vallabha, gave to the torious is the form, which was that of a boar,] Brahmaņs a great gift, [the village named] of the lord of the world, who allayed...... (Kuvalâla hasu........ At that ... the hostile ............ enemies same time, also, this charter was given). of the gods, - which was adorned by spotless A field, (of the measure of) twenty-five nivartusks; which had the unbroken foundations of tanas by the royal measure, was given to.... hell ........... the surface of the earth; .. racharya of the (?) Varcha gôtra. which ................. by its own There ................... at the arms; and which lifted up the world on high! village of (?) Vâtapi.............
After that, victorious for ever is also the arm ...... the high-road........ of Vallabha, -which is the cause of the
No. LIII. interruption of the joy ............. | General Jacob's paper on the Nerûr plates is ......, and which effects the tranquillity supplemented, at Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. of the best of the twice-born, and which is the III., Part II, p. 211, by a transcription, translaprotector of all mankind !
tion, and hand-copy, of a copper-plate grant In the lineage of the Chalu k yas),-who from Kochre or Kôchrêm. This place is someare possessed of fame (acquired by defeating] where in the VeigarỊA Peta of the Ratnagiri many [kings] : [who meditate on the feet of] the District; but I cannot find it on the map. The gods and the twice-born and spiritual preceptors; ancient spelling of the name was 'Kochchu. who are the descendants of Hariti; who are of raka', as shown by the grant itself. Nerur the lineage of Måna vya;[who sacrifice).... is in Long. 73° 42' E., and Lat. 16°1 N. The ..............; and who ....... ancient name is given in just the same form in
.......... which cost much gold another of the grants to be published hereafter; ............... endowed with dona- there is nothing to indicate whether the vowel tions ............,-(there was).... of the first syllable is long or short, but it has ........, whose body was purified by the appearance and sound of a Dravidian word, the water of the river) Gang â which was with the short vowel e. used for his purificatory bathing. His son was The plates, which have been obtained through Śrf-Kirttirkja.
the Political Superintendent of S&wantwadi About nine letters are broken away here. There can 13 About six letters are broken away here. Part of the be no doubt that the last was hd, and that the first two first is visible, and the consonant must be ch, d, d, P, ph, were guru; in fact, the tops of the 9 and rare visible. m, sh, or h. The remaining syllables were possibly ndma. The remaining syllables were probably pad-Andhyatanan. dhéya-gramari.
• About nine letters are broken away here. There can Six or seven letters are broken away here. be no doubt that the first three were g6trand, and part
* See para. 4 of the introductory remarks. of the g is visible. Four or five letters are broken away here. The last
16 One letter is illegible here, and about six others are
broken away. two were probably yaju of yajushani.
11 One letter is broken away here, and one is illegible. 10 Three or four letters are broken away here. 11 About twelve letters are broken away here.
16 About twenty letters are broken away here. 1 About six letters are broken away. There can be.no • About six letters are broken away here. doubt that they were as proposed by me, or to the same 10 There is evidently a panning allusion here to the coneffect.
I guest of Harshs or Harshvardhana.