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line 9; pravesah, line 13, sudhyati and which the inscription is dated, must be referred Rájésvara, line 18. Other mistakes, such as to the Chedi ere. the occasional omission of an akshara, the It is more difficult to explain the exact employment of a short vowel in place of a long significance of every one of the epithets used one and vice versá, the addition of a superfluous with reference to Jayasiṁhadêve and his superscript , the use of va for cha, of ksha for relatives. As to the title lord over the three sha, and of kha for sha, for which either the Rajas,' etc., it may suffice to state that the writer or the engraver is responsible, will Chêdi rulers share it with some of the Rathôr be drawn attention to and corrected in the princes of Kanauj. And regarding the extext.
pression Trikalingadhipati lord over the three After the usual “, may it be well!" and Kalingas,' I agree with Sir A. Cunningham' in a verse in honour of Hålamba, i.e. Hèramba considering the term Trikalinga to denote, (Ganesa), the inscription refers itself, in lines or to be an older name of, the province of 2-4, to the reign of victory of the parama- Telingana, and I may mention that the same bhattaraka makárájádhiraja paramégvara, the title Trikalingádhipati occurs also in lines 3 devout worshipper of Maheśvara (Śiva), the and 43 of the copper-plate inscription from illustrious Jayasim hadeva, the lord over Kapalêśvara, in Orissu, published ante, Vol. Trikalinga, who by his own arm had acquired | V., pp. 55-57. But I am unable, at present, to the title of ) lord over the three Rajas, (viz.) the explain properly the phrase "meditating on lord of horses, the lord of elephants, and the the feet of the paramabhattáraka mahdrájálord of men, and who meditated on the feet dhiraja paramésvara, the illustrious Vamaof the paramabhatláraka mahdrájddhiraja para. deva," which is used of Jayasimhadeva and mêsvara, the illustrious VAmadeva." And his elder brother, as well as of his father and the inscription is dated, in line 19, in the year son. In accordance with ordinary usage, that 926, and more accurately, in line 14," the year expression ought to mean that Vámadeva was 926 (expressed in decimal figures only), on one of the ancestors of the princes who are said the fourth tithi or lanar day, in the bright to meditate on his feet, but none of the inscriphalf in the month Bhadrapada, on Guru-dina tions of the Chedi rulers of Tripuri or Ratnapur or Thursday."
which are known to me, mention a prince The epithets, applied here to Jayasinha Vámadêva in the genealogical lists which they dova, are exactly those applied in the Jabalpur contain. copper-plate inscription' to the Chedi (or! As regards the date, I have shown, ante, Kalachuri) ruler of Tripuri, Gayákarne- page 219, that the corresponding European date, deva, the father of Jayasimbadêva, and, in the which in my opinion satisfies the requirements Lal-Pahar rock-inscription of the Chêdi] year of the case, is Thursday, August 21, 1175. 909, to Narasimhadeva, the elder brother of In line 4, our inscription goes on to state that Jayasinhadava, and, in the Kumbhi copper- in the town of Kakkaródika there was once a plate inscription of the [Chèdi] year 932, to Mahdránaka Jayavarman (line 6), born in the Vijayasinh hadeva, the son of Jayasimhaddva. Kaurava varasa. His son was the Maháránaka And since our inscription, to judge from the Vatsaraja (line 7); and his son again was the characters in which it is written, belongs to devout worshipper of Mahdśvara (Siva), the about the 12th century A.D., there can be no Maháránaka Kirtivarman (line 9). This chief, doubt that the prince Jayasimhadhva mentioned who clearly owed allegiance to the Chedi ruler here, is the Chedi ruler of that name, whom Jayasinhadeva, on the date mentioned, and on from a Tawar inscription" we know to have the occasion of making the funeral oblations in ruled in the [Chèdi] year 928, the younger son honour of his deceased father Vatsaraja (line of Gayakarnadeva, and that the year 926, in
14), granted the village of Ahadapada, situated Archaol. Survey of India, Vol. IX. p. 88.
Ancient Geography of India, p. 519. --The Chedi • Ib. Vol. IX. plate II.
rulers spoken of wore styled 'lords over Tri-kalinga': • Journal Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XXXI. p. 119.
their capital was Tri-puri; and according to Pandit Bhage
vanlal Indraji the Chedi era is identical with the era of . Journal American Or. soc., Vol. VI. p. 512.
the Traikatakas, name derived from Tri-kata. This • See ante, Vol. XV. p. 9, note 52.
may be mocidental, but it may as well be pointed out.
