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SANSKRIT AND OLD:CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY.J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S., M.R.A.S.
(Continued from p. 103.) No. LXXVI.
speaks of Pulikesi II as a parama-mdhéscara. The present copper-plate grant was published But, on the whole, I am not inclined to question originally, with a rough facsimile, by the late its genuineness. Considering the locality from Bal Gangadhar Sastri in the Jour. Do. Br. R. which the grant comes, ----so far to the north As. Soc., Vol. II, pp. 4 and 12; and it has been fron Vâtapi, which was then the capital of the repeated by Prof. Bhândirkar at idlem, Vol. Western Chalukyas ; and comparatively so near XIV, p. 16. The lithograph now appears for to the Gurjara capital, --it is probable enough the first time.
that the Gurjara characters would be used, My transcription is from the original plates, instead of the Western Chalakya. Another which belong to Nansa Walad Kansa,' of Nirpan result of this branch of the Western Chalukyas in the Vigatpuri Taluka of the Nasik District. being located in so far an outlying part of their The plates are two in number, each about dominions may easily have been & want of 8" long by 5%" broad; the edges of them are knowledge as to the exact nature of the genearaised into rims, and the inscription has been logical and historical statements recorded in the very well preserved. They are connected by Western Chalukya grauts. Or even a mere act two rings. The right-hand ring is a plain of carelessness on the part of the engraver may copper wire about thick, bent into the form of have given the title of Satyasraya to Kirtti. a ring of about 1}" in diameter; but the two varma I, instead of to Pulikasi II., to whom, by ends of the wire do not appear to have been the way, no second title at all is allotted in this ever soldered together. The left-hand ring, grant. And thouglı it is not at all likely that which had not been cut when the plates came the worship of Maheśvara, or Siva, by Pulikesi into my hands, is about " thick and 18" in II. was ever so exclusivo as to justify his being diameter; the seal on it is circular, abou: 18" called a parann-mdlésrarı; yet the Western in diameter, and has, in relief on a countersunk Chalukyas undoubtedly encouraged the worship surface, at the top, the moon, --in the centre, the of Siva quite as liberally as the worship of motto SM-Jayásraya, -and at the bottom, a lotns. Brahmi and Vishņu and Jinêndra.
It is a Western Chalukya grant of N ága The Niga vardhana who is inentioned in line vardhana, also called Tribhuvanaśraya, the 13 must have been the preceptor of Pulikosi II. son of Jayasinha varma', also called Dha- Such at least is the strictly correct interpretation råśraya, who was one of the younger brothers of the epithet $/-Ndyavardhana-pálinudhyátu. of Palikesi II. From the motto on the seal, which is applied here to Palikesi II. In some it is probable that Jayasimhavarma had also the other inscriptions,-e. I., Nos. 3 to 10 of Dr. title of Jayasraya.
Bühler's Chaulukya grants at Vol. VI, p. 180 ; The grant is not dated. It records the gift and the Sihvar' grant of Jayachandra in The of the village of Baleg râma, in the Go pa Pundit, Vol. IV, p. 94,-pádinulhyata is used, rå shtra district, to the establishment of the by itself, to denote the relationship of son to god Kapalêśvara, or Siva as the wearer of a father; and in the two Valabhi grants published garland of skulls. This village has been identi by Dr. Bühler at Vol. VI, pp. 13 and 17, it is fied for me by Mr. J. A. Baines, C. S., with uscal, in addition to tasya sudah and tusyrin juh, the modern Bolganm-Taralhî about twelve miles to express the bond of filial and fraternal affecto the north-cast from Vigatpuri.
tion and respect uniting a son to his father and The doubtful points abont this grant are,-1, a younger to his elder brother. Bat, to interthat it is in the Garjara characters; 2, that it pret it otherwise than in its literal sense here, gives the title of Satyaśraya to Kirttivarmi I; would necessitate our taking Nigavardhana 3, that it allots the horse of the breed called to be another name of Kirttivarmi I; and there Chitrakantba' to Pulikėsi II; and 4, that it is nowhere any corroborative evidence to justify
When BA Gangadhar Sastri pablished the grart, the gaum in the Northern Konkan." platos belonged to Narsu Bhala Thakur, formerly of ? For brevity, and convenience of distinction, I shall call kayani in the volley of Trimba toj war, and now of Nind him in future notices Jayasimha II.
