Indian Antiquary Vol 12

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 17

JANUARY, 1883.)
A RÁSHTRAKÚTA GRANT FROM MYSORE.
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itself, modern criticism discovers so many vital Reverse. Seated figure of Parvati with after-incorporations, that we need scarcely debased Greek legend (APAOXPO). Monogram regard a few extra Barbarian nations thrown No. 160, Ariana Antiqua. in at hazard by later revisers, as meaning any- Finally, to recapitulate our recent acquisitions thing more than that the authorized version -we have five definite Scythic tribal subwas written up to the knowledge of the day! divisions, and no less than eleven names of And it has, in this sense, a meaning which kings or military chiefs located in India, more has preserved to modern enquirers a fresh or less unknown to history, of whom the geographical circle, from whence to test the following is a preliminary outline :location and possible date of the intrusion of
Saka's No. 2 Me. these alien tribes into India.
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- 3 MAHI BRANCH. Pa Mahi.
Bhri No. 11. a Gold. Unique. British Museum.
Bha Obverse. The usual standing figure of the
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Sayam king with trident and small incense altar on his
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Senam right: the left hand rests upon a standard
Kushans , 8 Kidara (Kady) Hodi? with flowing pennons.
Gadaha 9 Kirda, or Kardi. Legend below the arm, g Pu; outside the
Shandhis, 10 Básanam or Bastán. staff of the standard Mahi.
Do. , 11 Bhadri Margin, Scythic legend ?
Mahi 11 a. Pu. A RASHTRAKŪTA GRANT FROM MYSORE.
BY LEWIS RICE, M.R.A.S. The accompanying grant, dated Saka 735, The grant is one made by Prabhůtawas found at Ka daba in the Tumkur District Varsha, living at May ûra-Khandi, on the of Maisar. It is engraved on five copper plates, application of Chaki Rája, of the village of about 91 inches by 5, strung on a metal ring Ja la mangalam in the I dig ûr district, to which is secured with a seal 2 inches in diame- a Muni named Arka kirtti, on behalf of the ter, bearing the device of a human figure in a Jaina temple of Silâgrâma on the west of M&sitting posture, with the hands held up on nyapura. The reason for this donation was each side of the chest.
that the Muni had been suecessful in removing Old traditions, as in the chronicle of the some adverse influence of Saturn (SanésvaraKongudesa,' indicate the rule of R&shtra- pida) from a prince named Vimaladitya, kůta or Ratta kings in Maisur ir very governor of the Kanungil country, who was early times, before the rise of the Ganga a son of Ya so varmma and grandson of power; and during their ascendancy over the Bala varmma of the Chalukya family, his Western Châlukyas in the 9th and 10th mother being the sister of Châki Raja, the centuries, their dominion must have extended to sovereign of Ganga-mandala. this country. Buty so far as I am aware, none The locality of the grant is evidently, from of their grants have hitherto been found here." the names, in the Karnataka country, but I The present inscription is in the Parvada Hale have not been able to identify it with any of Kannada character and in the Sanskrit lan- the places bearing the same name in Maisur. guage; but in describing the boundaries and wit- Possibly, from the source whence the grant nesses Hale Kannada is introduced. The four has been produced, Kunungil might be the forms of l are more frequently and systema- modern Kunigal, but this is only conjecture. tically used than in any specimen which has May ra-k handi, it is said, may be Mor. come under my notice.
khand, an old hill-fort in the Násik district. The figure bears & general resemblance to the one on
Agrant made in Maisur during the Ratta supremacy, but the Khârepatan plates J. Bo. Br. R. A. 8., vol. I., P. 209), where it was found is not stated.. but the attitude and details are not the same.
• In the grant, it is called Janendra-bhavana, but this Mad. Jour. L. and 8., vol. XIV.
is no doubt a mistake for Jinendra-bhavana. * The inscription given in Plate uvi. of Burnell's South The same place however was suggested by me for Indian Palæography, a transcript and translation of Konikal of the Ambera inscription, Ind. Ant., vol. VIII, which will be found at p. lvii of Mysore Inscriptions, is pp. 89, 96 ; vol. IX, p. 304. Ind. Ant., vol. VI, p. 64.