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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
APRIL, 1884.
some animal; as the grantor was a worshipper the father of Vishnuvardhana II. (Saks 579 to of Siva under the form of Gôkarnasvâmi, and 586, or Saka 582 to 591). This is the period as the bull of Siva appears on the seals of to which the present grant, and No. CXLIII., some rather later grants which are closely con- and the Parla-Kimedi' grant mentioned below, nected with the present one, we might expect may be allotted, on palmographical grounds, this figure to be that of a bull, couchant to the and on account of the use of numerical symbols proper right; but it is much worn and very in the date and the omission to specify the faint, and might now be taken just as readily lunar fortnight of the month. And, with for a boar, standing to the proper right. The this to start with, the mention of the eclipse of weight of the three plates is 724 tolas, and of the moon, in lines 10-11, may perhaps serve, on the ring and seal, 394 tolas,-total, 112 tolas. calculation, to determine the date of the grant The language is Sanskrit throughout.
exactly. The grant is one of the Maharaja Indre- No. CXLIII. below, is another grant of the varma, of the Ganga family, the lord of same Mahárája Indra varma, dated in the the whole country of Kalinga, and is issued same way, in numerical symbols, on the tenth from the city of Kalinganagara. And it day of the month Magha, in the one hundred records the grant of the village of Tâmara- and forty-sixth year of the augmenting victoricheruva, in the vishaya of Varaha var. ous reign or sovereignty. tani, to some Brahmans.
And another grant, closely connected with The grant was made, according to lines 10- these two, has recently been found at Parla11, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, Kimedi.' I have not seen the original plates on the full-moon day of the month Margasira, of it yet. But the transcription that has been In line 20 another date is given, in numerical submitted to me suffices to show that it agrees symbols, the fifteenth day of the month closely throughout with the style of the present Chaitra, and the one hundred and twenty- two grants, and is a grant of the Mahardja eighth year of the augmenting victorious reign Indravarma of the Ganga (or, probably, or sovereignty. This must be the date on in the original G Ang a family), the lord of which the charter was written.
Kalinga, and is issued from the city of There is nothing at present to show the era Kalinganagara. It records the grant of to which this date is to be referred, or to indi- the village of 'Kettata' in the Devanna' cate the starting point of the era. But the panchdit. And it is dated, in numerical symbols, years are probably those of the Gang@ya era, on the thirtieth day of the month Magha, in which is mentioned in some grants of the the ninety-first year of the angmenting victoriGanga family that I shall shortly publish. Ons reign or sovereignty. The interval of fifty. And it is possible that the Maharaja Indra- five years between this "Parla-Kimedi' grant varma of this grant is identical with the and my No. CXLIII., renders it doubtfal Adhiraja Indra, who is mentioned, in the whether it is a grant of the same Indravarmi, Godavari grant of the Rajd Pșithivim dla, as or of a grand-father of the same name; combining with other chiefs and overthrow- especinlly since, at the end, it seems to give ing a certain Indrabhattâ raka. This Indravarma the title of Rajasimha, which is Indra bhatt & raka must be the Eastern not mentioned in my two grants. But, that Chalu kya of that name, the younger brother the three grants are closely connected with of Jayasimha I. (Saka 549 to 579 or 582), and each other is indisputable.
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First plate. ['] Svasti Vijayavató(tab) Kalinga-nagara-vasak[t!) Mahendr-ichal-Amala-bikhara-prati
shthit [*] sya char-Achara-gar[bo] sakala-bhuvana-nirmmkp-aika-sättra(tra)dhárasya bhagavat8
Gök&It is to be noted that the vowel of the first syllable the family is Ganga in long here and in No. CXLIII. below. Wheron, in Jour. Bo. Br. R. A. Boc. Vol. XVI. pp. 114. the rather later granta, connected with those that I have mentioned just above, it is short, and the name of " From the original platos.
