Indian Antiquary Vol 11

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

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JANUARY, 1882.]
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
are said to attain a height of several hundreds tively unimpeded, whilst the eastern banks are of feet, and in the north-eastern parts of Sindh protected from erosion as above indicated by they commonly reach a height of one hundred the drift-sand heaped against them by the feet-more than enough to prevent the annual prevailing westerly winds. inundation of the snow-fed Indus and its In the present state of affairs therefore the tributaries from spreading to the eastward, river channels must move westward if they notwithstanding the natural tendency of the move at all: and there is no doubt that they flood-waters to seek new channels right and have so altered in times past, leaving many a left of their original course if there be any town and city that once flourished on their banks gradual deltaic rising of the river bed. Any to dwindle into insignificance or perish entirely western deviation of the channels is compara-l in the sand wastes of the great Indian Desert.
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, BO. C.S., M.B.A.S.
(Continued from Vol. X., p. 255.) No. CXVIII.
of Taila I. and Bhima II. of the Western In a temple of the god Rudra in the eastern Chalukya dynasty." part of Anam kond, which is a short distance Through the kindness of the Haidarabad to the north of Worangal in the Nizam's Political Authorities, in furnishing me with an Dominions, there is a long and highly interest- excellent ink-impression of this inscription, ing ineerintion of king Rudradd va of the I am now able to publish & revised and satisKákatya or Kakatiya dynasty, of which factory version of it, with lithographs. I have given a brief notice in Vol. X., page 211. It is engraved on the four faces of a stone, Versions of it have been published, --in the perhaps a dhvajastambha, at the temple of Jour. Beng. As. Soc., Vol. VII., p. 901, appar. Rndra, in the eastern division of Anamkond. ently by the Secretary, where it is stated that The entire stone is about 8 high by 2' 2" broad this inscription "had been obtained and com- and 1' 2' thick. Lines 1 to 41 of the inscription municated by Raja Dharma Venkata Asvarao, are on the front face of the stone, and cover who had been for some time in Caloutta, a space of about 4' 8" high by 2' 14'broad. to urge on the Supreme Government of India Lines 42 to 89 are on the righthand face, and his claim to the gádí of the ráj of 'Paluncha' cover a space of about 5 l' high by 114' broad. or Kummummot', which through some recent Lines 90 to 150 are on the rear face, and cover arrangements of the Nizam's Government had a space of about 6'0' high by 2' 21' broad; and, been assigned to a rival claimant," and where I judging from the impression, there must be the date was interpreted as Saka 1054,- and some sculptures between the first and last in the Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. X., parts of lines 90 to 104. And lines 151 to line p. 46, by Dr. Bhau Dâji, who interpreted the 166, the last, are on the lefthand face, and date as Saka 1064. Neither of those two cover a space of about 1' 10' high by 11) broad. versions, however, represents the original at all The characters are well executed and well correctly in essential points. It has also been preserved Old-Canarese characters of the period noticed by Mr. Rice, who, -recognising, from to which the inscription belongs. The lanthe above discrepant readings of the date, and guage of lines 1 to 8 is Old-Telugu; the rest of from the fact that the samvatsara, the name of the inscription is in Sanskrit. which is recorded as Chitrabhånu, does not The inscription is dated in .Saka 1084 (A.D. agree with the above dates by respectively | 1162-3), the Chitrabhậnu saihvatsara. And thirty and twenty years, that the date had not the primary object of it is to record that been interpreted correctly,--gave as his opinion the Maha mandalésvara Rudrad 8 va of the that the inscription belonged unmistakeably to Kakatya or Kakatiya dynasty, set up at the ninth century A. D., and recorded the fate his capital of Anmakundâ pura, Anna
Mysore Inscriptions, p. xliv note, and p. lxiii.