Indian Antiquary Vol 14

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1885.
the god Vishņu. In line 5, there are the words read the name of Santipura in this inscription, krabita-ripurnabhat, "having made omaciated as there is nothing else at all approaching to his enemies, there was (a king);" and, in line it. In line 21, there are the words dramma10, there are the words praviladrari-purain, ttritayai datté prati-divasail Sripathá-stha"(an army) entering the city of its foes ; " 'it mandapikd, which seem to shew very clearly that must be in these two passages that Mr. Carlleyle the ancient name of Byånå was $ ripatha.
TEXT. (1) Om Om Namah .siddhbhyah | Åsin"-niruritak['i nvay-aika-tilakah sri-Vishņusůry-Asanê
brima io t-Kämyaka-gachchha-tára kapatha-svêtAmbuman-vi[] brutah | Srimin-sûri-Mahlava(sva)raḥ prasama-bhůh svêtAnva(ba)[") ra-graman 1
rajyê
sri-Vijay-adhiraja-npipa[°] téh kri-Sripathấyam puri Tatas-sha (1) Nasana yâtu i batam sahasra-sahitam samvatsarkņa drutam myê[] mAh Bhadrapadah & bhadra-padavim masah 88('j mirðhatu
Selay=aiva kshayam-êtu sma-sa[°] [hi]t krisbə dvitiya tithih (ITM) pamoha-sri-para[m]8["] [shthi-nishtha-hridayah prapto divam yatra sab | [A]. ["] [pi) cha (1) Kirttir=dik-kari-kanta-damtamuiala"-prð[bh]"] [ta)-lisya-kramam
kvåpi kvapi HimAdri-mu... [%] mahi-sôtpräsa-hsa-sthiti[m] 1
kvâpy-Air(va)[") na-nagaraja-janita-sparddh-Anava(ba)dh-8ddhuram
bhr[a]["] [m]yantibhuvana-trayam tripathagèveidyâpi na sramya ["] t[i] | Sam 1100 Bhadra va di 2 Chandra kalyanaka-di["] [nd] prasastir=iyam sådhu-Sarvvadêvêntkirņq-êti || No. CLII.
in the lithograph. The ring, on which the CHICACOLE PLATES OF THE
plates are strung, is about thick and 31' in MAHİRİJA SATYAVARMAN.
diameter; it had not been cut when the This is the Ganga grant of Satyavarman,' of grant came into my hands. The seal on the which I have spoken in Vol. XIII. page 274. It ring is circular, about 21 in diameter; it has, is the last of those that were found, together with in relief on the surface of the seal itself, -in the grant of Nandaprabhaõjanavarman, No. the centre, a bull, couchant to the proper right, CXXXVIII., Vol XIII.p. 48ff., at Chicacole' with the moon above it, an elephant-goad in the Ganjam' District of the Madras behind it, and a floral device below it. The Presidency, and were presented by Mr. Grahame characters are primarily of what Dr. Burnell to the Madras Museum. I edit it from the has named the South Indian Nagari type. Bat original plates, which I obtained through the they present at the same time, many charackindness of Mr. Sewell, C.S.
teristios of the Grantha alphabet,' and also The plates are three in number, each about many forms of a still earlier period. There is, 7" long by 21' broad. The edges of them were in fact, hardly any letter in this grant which raised into rims, to protect the writing, and does not appear under at least two forms, - the inscription is in a state of perfect preserva compare, for instance, a in amara line 1, and ali tion throughout; but some of the letters are 1. 26; w in uttaréna l. 26, and utpala l. 27; ka choked with hard rust to such an extent that in kalinga l. 2, and aika 1. 4; three forms of it was impossible to clear them out properly, ga in nagara l. 2, and tyága and guna l. 10; and consequently they shew rather imperfectly cha in chakra and chudámani 1. 8; ja in jaya 1. From an ink-pronsion.
was myins, by mistake for muna. - Metro, Sardalavikridita ; and in the following two * This lawm at first omitted, and then inserted, verses.
rather small, above the line. This syllable reada wa md, but it is damaged, and No. 159 in Mr. Sewell's published List of Copper may therefore be really something else. The preceding plate grants. Noticed by me, ante Vol. X. p. 243, syllable myd is oertainly mistake. The probability is No. 5. that the text, before the second syllable wm damaged, * South Indian Palæography, Plate xiv.