Indian Antiquary Vol 16

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

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JANUARY, 1887.
tangalar, about 21" by 3'. It has, in slight scriptions was prepared.-In respect of orthorelief on a deep countersunk surface, inside a graphy, we have to notice (1) the constant rim from th' to broad, -in the centre, & use, as in the modern vernaculars, of the anusboar, couchant to the proper right; immedi- vára, instead of the proper nasal, e.g. in akaately above the boar, a sankic-shell; in the lanka for akalanka, line 4, küsida for kánda, proper right and left upper corners, the sun line 3, visránta for visránta, line 1, kadasiva and moon respectively; and, behind the boar, for kadamva or kadamba, line 9, and even udvaeither an elephant-goad or an ox-goad. Below hari for udvahan, line 28, which is altogether the boar there are some very faint indications, unjustifiable; the proper nasal occurs, however, suggestive of a legend in two lines; but, if in saundarya, line 51, and vộinda, line 54; (2) there was a legend in the matrix, the casting the doubling of dh, in conjunction with of it was very imperfect, and it is quite illegi- following y, once, in ayôddhyam, line 11; (3) ble. The emblems are in such slight relief, the doubling of d, in conjunction with a followand the ground, on which they are, is so deep, ingr, once, in bhupalddd - ráshtra, line 44; and that it was impossible to obtain either a photo (4) the use of v for b throughout, e.g. in lavdha graph or an ink-impression of them for line 6(twice), vala, line 10, vibharási-vabhtivuh, lithography.-The weight of the three plates line 12, vabhára, line 16, and vasidhair, line 22. is 522 tolas, and of the ring and seal, 97 tolas; The inscription commences with two invototal, 619 tolas.-The average size of the cations of the god Vishạn, in the form of the letters is about it. The characters are Boar. And these are followed by a verse askthose of the South Indian Nagari alphabet oting for a benediction upon a king who is menthe period. They include the separate signstioned under the biruda of Akalankacharita for the lingual d, e.g. in kroda, line 2, kadamua, (1.4). On the analogy of the Miraj grant line 9, and shodaśa, line 11 ; and for the lingual and the Yewür inscription, which, being records dh, in prarudha, line 48, and mudha, line 50. of respectively Jayasimha III. and Vikram - The virdma occurs distinctly, separate from ditya VI., introduce in this place the birudas and below the letter, in asit, line 45, and pildt of Jagadékamalla and Tribhuvanamalla, beand samajijanat, line 46, and perhaps as part longing respectively to those two kings, of the letter in (a)bhút, line 22; but it Akalankacharita ought to denote the reigning is omitted in (a)bhút, line 52, haran, line monarch Vikramaditya V. But, if the copies 15, and prakisayan, line 47. The decimal are correct, an inscription, dated Saka-Samvat signs for 3, 9, and 0, occur in line 61.-The 926, at Tambigi in the IŅdi Taluka of the language is Sanskrit throughout. Except Bijapur District,' and another, dated in the for & few connecting words in prose, the following year, at Kanneswar in the Hångal inscription is in verse as far as line 58; and Alak of the Dhirwad District, shew that some of the customary benedictive and im- this biruda belonged to Satyapraya II., the precatory verses are introduced in lines 69 to uncle and predecessor of Vikramaditya V. In 72. As far as line 46, the draft of this inscrip- that case, the inference from the present tion is an earlier specimen of the form from passage seems to be, that Satyáśraya II. was which were prepared the Miraj grant of Jaya- still alive on the date of this inscription, but simba III., dated Saka-Samvat 946, and the had made over the sovereignty to his nephew. Yêhûr or Ybwûr inscription of Vikramaditya And, in support of this inference, we may VI., dated Saka-Samvat 999, edited by me in quote the fact that the present inscription this Journal, ante, Vol. VIII. p. 10ff., and the does not include & certain verse (see note 20 Âlûr inscription of Vikramaditya VI., dated below) which is given in the Miraj grant, and Saka-Samyat 1013 and 1046, noticed by me, which speaks of the succession of Vikramaditya id. p. 21ff.; and it clears up, so far, almost all v. after Satyasraya II. Vikramaditya V. had the points left doubtful by the materials from the birudas of Tribhuvanamalla and Vallabhanawhich my version of the Miraj and Yêwar in-rêndra, as recorded in lines 59 and 73 below. • Eliot MS. Collection, Vol. I. p. 32f.
tion his proper name. It does not seem to occur in any • id. Vol. I. p. 84.-This biruda oucurs also in two of the inscriptions, in the Collection, belonging to of the remaining three inscriptions, in the same Collec- Vikramiditya V. tion, attributed to Satyásraya II. ; but they do not men